Labor Issues

Always Evil Walmart Increases Profits While Cutting Employee Benefits

Always Evil Walmart Increases Profits While Cutting Employee Benefits

40% of America's wealth is not enough for the Walton's or their investors so Walmart took steps to increase their…

10 years ago

Progressive House Members Stand In Solidarity With Striking Fast Food Workers

On Thursday, thousands of fast food workers across the nation walked out on their shifts to protest the low wages…

10 years ago

A Holiday They Bled For: The True Patriots of Labor Day

Unions lend collective power to workers standing up to the entrenched power of corporations. You have the day off because…

11 years ago

Why Progressives Can Make My Head Explode

Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I'm a liberal; I'm all about liberty, so leave my choices…

11 years ago

WalMart earns record profits while supporting Republicans who want to slash their employees’ food stamps

At a time when Republicans are proposing deep cuts to programs like SNAP (food stamps), WalMart heavily supported Republican candidates…

11 years ago

Walmart Can Bully Their Workers, but They Can’t Bully You Into Shopping There

The Black Friday Walmart strike is ostensibly the largest organized action against the world's biggest retail store. There's a lot…

11 years ago

It was Romney Vulture Capitalist Style Management that Killed Hostess, Not Unions

Much of the responsibility for Hostess shutting down lies with the company's management and the private equity firm behind them,…

11 years ago

Mitt Romney Plays Grim Reaper of Jobs in Ohio with Scary Lies about Jeep

Mitt Romney played the Grim Reaper of jobs when he told Ohioans a complete falsehood about Chrysler moving Jeep to…

12 years ago