Walmart's Internal Compensation Documents Reveal Systematic Limit On ...
"In order to deal with competition from Walmart, other retail outlets have been forced into a reduction in wages and benefits across the board," said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California at ...www.huffingtonpost.com
RPT-Wal-Mart employees to pay more for health care plans
Premiums Wal-Mart workers pay going up 8-36 percent. * Wal-Mart says workers' average costs only up 4.4 percent.www.reuters.com
Walmart Workers Plan Black Friday Protests, So Walmart Will Open on "Black ...
Walmart workers, protesting low wages, erratic hours, lack of health benefits, and most importantly disrespect in the workplace, decided to speak their grievances in a series of worker-led actions.news.firedoglake.com
Walmart Workers Plan Black Friday Protest
Hundreds of Southern California Walmart employees on Thursday demonstrated against what they call low wages, irregular hours, and a lack of benefits on top of having to work on Thanksgiving.www.nbclosangeles.com
Wal-Mart hit with minimum wage lawsuit as walkout threat looms
The proposed class action, filed on Monday in a Chicago federal court, alleged Wal-Mart and the agencies violated minimum wage and overtime laws which could affect several hundred temporary workers in the Chicagoland area. Wal-Mart declined to ...www.reuters.com
Ex-Walmart Employee Arrested For Talking About 'Black Friday' Strike
walmart is a billion dollar business. millions and millions of people and families shop there. not everyone has your kind of money to pay more somewhere else. walmart is indeed, less expensive for some of the same goods that sell higher in less volume ...www.huffingtonpost.com
WILL WALMART FEEL THE STING OF WORKER WALKOUTS ON BLACK ...
A Walmart spokeswoman said the number of workers who are raising concerns about wages and working conditions at the company is very small and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its employees which totals some 1.3 million.www.skyvalleychronicle.com
Walmart workers to strike on Black Friday
While shoppers hope to get good deals the day after Thanksgiving, Walmart employees say they haven't been getting a good deal on the job.www.fox11online.com
Walmart Workers File Labor Complaints, Stage Walkout
The workers returned to the job after winning pledges for an end to workplace retaliation as well as the restoration of full back pay. Workers at a Wal-Mart supply warehouse in Mira Loma, California, are staging a one-day strike today over what they ...www.democracynow.org
Papa John's CEO Should Take a Pay Cut, Not Lay Off Workers
As the owner of two small businesses, when times were tough, I took a paycut—I did not reduce my employees' hours or their wages. How many zeros is in CEO John Schnatter's paycheck? Or that of the Walmart CEO? This is a company that even during the ...www.usnews.com
Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes... But Why Now?
Wal-Mart has long been the Holy Grail for labor organizers. The nation's largest retailer, it is notorious for its low wages, lack of benefits, abusive labor practices, and for leaving its workers dependent on public assistance while making the Walton ...www.religiondispatches.org
Walmart workers ready to shut-down stores on Black Friday
Striking Walmart workers gather during a rally to protest unsafe working conditions and poor wages outside a Walmart store in Pico Rivera, California, October 4, 2012. (Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn). Walmart may have found a way to stick it to underpaid ...rt.com
Walmart: Union protests and trashed IPADs
The incident happened just two months after a Walmart warehouse protest about underpaid labor wages in October, and a week before an employee protest against having to work on Thanksgiving day for "Black Friday" shopping.www.examiner.com
Labor Action: Pushing for Strike and Consumer Boycott Against Walmart
Walmart has been noted for being exceptionally cruel to its employees over the years and is currently involved in many lawsuits ranging from refusal to pay overtime, forcing temporary workers to arrive early and work through lunch breaks, and even ...newsjunkiepost.com
This Week in Poverty: Janitors in the Queen City
But this focus on low prices comes at a cost—a cost felt in the daily lives of the workers directly and indirectly employed by Walmart. In response, Walmart workers in recent months courageously went on strike over wages and safety concerns. This ...www.thenation.com
As Long as There's a Walmart, We'll Need Labor Unions
When dozens of Walmart workers at nine stores across Southern California walked off the job to protest working conditions and poor wages earlier this month, the now much-maligned labor movement surprisingly scored a long-awaited blow against the also ...blogs.phillymag.com
Wal-Mart Bribery Probe Expands as Workers Plan Wave of Black Friday Protests
The news comes as hundreds of Wal-Mart workers walked off the job this week to protest low wages, poor benefits and alleged retaliation from management.www.democracynow.org
Boycott of Walmart Scheduled for Black Friday; Boynton Beach Store One of 20 ...
Employees of a warehouse in California that housed goods for Walmart went on strike yesterday to protest horrible wages and poor treatment. Workers say they are hired at just above minimum wage and promised full-time gigs with benefits only to be ...blogs.browardpalmbeach.com
Walmart, the Elections and the Key to Democracy
That means even full-time workers at Walmart make an average of just $15,500 a year. Wages and working conditions set at Walmart have a ripple-effect across so many jobs, making low wages, limited access to health care, and a lack of retirement ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Low-wage workers take on Walmart
First, a two-week strike of Walmart warehouse workers began in southern California on Sept. 12. The workers and their allies then marched 50 miles demanding Walmart pay them stolen wages, rectify health and safety violations, and deal with ...www.workers.org
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