Working Life

  These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]

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  These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]

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I should have connected my recent blog about worker pay going down with the AFL-CIO’s updated site on CEO pay. My favorite entry, in keeping with my own obsession, was the one on Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott: When it comes to CEO pay, Wal-Mart definitely does not have always low prices. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott […]

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So, the Wall Street Journal carried a story yesterday (followed up today by The New York Times) that reports, in part, a claim that Wal-Mart’s vice-chairman Thomas Coughlin had falsified expense reports to hide money he was using for anti-union activities. Coughlin, you may remember, was asked to leave the board after the company uncovered […]

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They must be popping the corks off the champagne bottles in Bentonville. Wal-Mart makes a ton of money illegally. Once again, the Beast gets to break the law and get away with a slap on the wrist—no jail time for executives and a fine that, by its standards, is puny: it agreed to pay $11 […]

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