Supreme Court handling of Wal-Mart appeal will have wider implications - latimes.com. This Land Is Their Land: Reports ... No Union Please, We're Wal-Mart. By Anthony Bianco If Wal-Mart (WMT) founder Sam Walton had been prone to nightmares, they probably would have looked a lot like the big-box store in Jonqui?
Re, Que., on this Friday evening in April, 2005. Empty shelves outnumber full ones by about 5 to 1. "The election issue that never got (or ever gets) covered" by Waging Peace. Waiving away health care reform. Karen Ignagni, CEO of the lobbying group America's Health Insurance Plans LAST YEAR, the Democrats passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), claiming it was a major victory for the American people and a blow against a chronic oppositionist Republican Party that voted almost unanimously against it. » Politics of living wage:The 1964 lesson. Politicians say Bloomberg's study team biased against 'living wage'
Hermann for News Protesters hold signs in front of City Hall to demonstrate against the proposed redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory.
The developer in the deal refused to pay workers a living wage. The Bloomberg administration has stacked the deck on a study of whether workers should be paid a "living wage" on city-backed developments, three city pols claim. "The study will be subject to the biases of a study team that is being chosen by the mayor's office," wrote representatives of Controller John Liu, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. They are three of 15 members of the Industrial Development Agency board and will ask the others on Monday to rescind their June decision to pay $1 million to study a living wage proposal.
It would require jobs at city-subsidized developments to pay $10 an hour with benefits or $11.50 without benefits - higher than the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Minimum wage needs permanent fix. Back in July 2007, Sen.
Ted Kennedy vowed to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour. That was just after the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 raised the federal minimum amount to $5.85 from $5.15. FRONTLINE: country boys: readings: why poverty persists in appalachia. Duncan, professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, has focused her career on poverty in America and is director of the University's Carsey Institute.
She spoke with FRONTLINE on Dec. 29, 2005. Study finds Wal-Mart contributes to poverty. A study focused on the effects of Wal-Mart stores on poverty rates found that an estimated 20,000 families nationwide have fallen below the official poverty line as a result of the chain's expansion.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Ark., ranked No. 5 on the St. Louis Business Journal's most recent list of the area's largest employers. As of Dec. 31, Wal-Mart employed 13,005 people in the St. Louis metro area. The study -- Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty -- written by Stephan Goetz, a professor of agricultural and regional economics at Pennsylvania State University, and Hema Swaminathan for the International Center for Research on Women, was published in the latest issue of Social Science Quarterly. The Yeshiva World WalMart Struggles To Open NYC Store Against Union Opposition. Big Apple residents spent $165 million last year to buy low-cost products at Walmart’s suburban stores because there aren’t any outlets in the five boroughs, according to an analysis obtained by The Post.
The massive money drain costs the city millions of dollars in tax revenues and hundreds of jobs. But Walmart wants to give back to the Big Apple. With strong sales from Gotham customers, the megachain is launching an aggressive marketing campaign to open stores in the city, over stiff resistance from labor unions. Walmart has hired star consultant Bradley Tusk, Mayor Bloomberg’s former campaign director, to assist in the effort. Crap health coverage wins a regulatory victory. - By Timothy Noah. How's this for a deal: You pay me $13.09 a week. In exchange, I will pay your medical bills, but only up to $2,000 a year. Maybe that deal makes sense if you know with absolute certainty that your medical expenses in the coming year will fall between $680.68 ($13.09 each week for 52 weeks) and $2,000. Rules Eased for Some Health Plans. AFL-CIO President on Midterm Losses, Obama's Problems, and Working With the GOP - Chris Good - Politics.
The nation's desperate economic situation has cost Democrats their largest majorities in recent memory.
Richard Trumka tried to warn them. "If you go back two, three years ago, I was screaming, 'It's about jobs! It's about jobs! ' and everyone was going--" Trumka pretends to yawn. Check, Please! Workers, Activists Nationwide Take Action Against Wage Theft. Thursday, Nov 18, 2010, 7:49 am BY Rose Arrieta San Francisco, with its Victorian buildings and ethnic neighborhoods, each with a personality of its own, has long been a destination spot for tourists.
Every year the city’s Chinatown district, one of the oldest in North America, draws visitors who love the little shops, fresh fish and vegetables and the abundance of restaurants specializing in authentic Chinese food. More than 100 restaurants line the 0.13 square miles that is Chinatown. Livable wages: labor laws. The push for higher entry-level wages raises significant questions about the unionization of workers at the University At the living wage rally last month, students protested what they called the unfairly low wages of many University workers.
Embrace The Cooperative Movement. Retail trade union set for nationwide strike. Obama pushes $900bn stimulus bill - Americas. The US senate has begun debate on what could become the most expensive legislation to be enacted in the country's history as president Barack Obama moves to try and counter the effects of the global economic downturn.
Obama said he expected a "difficult next few days" as the senate argues over the emergency legislation, valued at nearly $900bn, that began its passage through the upper house on Monday. He said the bill, aimed at boosting employment, social spending and consumption, was necessary so "we can put America back to work and start digging ourselves out of this deep hole we're in". Speaking three days after the release of figures showing the US economy shrank by four per cent in the last quarter - its worst decline since 1982 - Obama also warned that more US banks could fail. US unemployment edges up to 9.6% - Americas. Unemployment in the United States rose from to 9.6 per cent in July from 9.5 per cent, the country's labour department has said.
Friday's report said the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month, a better figure than the 120,000 loss expected by economists. A bright spot in the August jobs report was the private sector's ability to create a much better than expected 67,000 jobs, although that was not enough to offset the government releasing around 114,00 temporary census workers. Another Gilded Age.