One of the best commentaries I’ve read regarding the Black Friday actions by Walmart employees and supporters is from Pam Spaulding, in Failure of the American conscience: Walmart reports record Black Friday sales despite 100-city worker strike. So, what does this say about the American people, the brain-dead consumers addicted to a one-day extreme low [...]
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AFSCME, the National Education Association, and SEIU Target Democrats in “Jobs Not Cuts” Ads
THERE’S A campaign not so quietly growing in volume, with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh the loudest, that has Republicans having a hissy fit over Obama’s proposed tax increases for the wealthiest. Rush is using the Santa Claus line, a take off on O’Reilly’s people want stuff belch, but both are focused on making people [...]
Walmart Files Complaint In Effort to Prevent Black Friday Strikes
As is typical of corporate Walmart, the world’s largest retailer has once again taken steps to prevent its uppity hourly employees from any and all efforts to unionize. As I wrote about yesterday, Walmart “associates” are planning protest and education actions on the “traditional” massive holiday shopping day after Thanksgiving. Walmart obviously feels so strongly [...]
Top Story — Black Friday: ‘Buy Nothing’ or ‘Tis the Season to Get Trampled’? [VIDEO]
This year, Black Friday – or I guess it would be more accurate to call it Black Friday Eve – begins on Thanksgiving evening, 8:00 PM at Walmart (and Sears, 9:00 PM at Target). Prepare, cook, eat and clean-up quickly, Walmart, Sears, Target and other retails employees. The focus below is on Walmart simply because [...]
Walmart Workers Plan Black Friday Actions
The employees of Walmart understand as well, if not better, than anyone else that their employer is focused on profits, and nothing says “profits” in retail more than Black Friday. Earlier this month, shortly after other actions, Making Change at Walmart issued this release: On the heels of first-ever strikes by Walmart workers across the [...]
Walmart Strikes Spreading is ‘Unprecedented’ and a ‘Game-Changer’
Even if you never shop at Walmart, the corporate giant effects how you spend your money. Its sheer size gives it enormous influence. The strikes by Walmart employees, and those who work, for example, at distribution centers, face not only the corporate giant, but a giant who consistently and strongly fights union organizing. The number [...]
Banks Lose A Big One, Thanks to Walmart (not kidding)
The Senate voted Wednesday to let the Federal Reserve slice the fees that stores must pay banks each time a customer swipes a debit card, handing merchants a victory over banks in a lobbying battle over billions in revenue. Senators supporting the financial institutions’ efforts to head off the proposal fell six voters short of [...]
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