Working Life

How about this? The media is doing extensive coverage of a huge labor battle, with the networks sending their anchors down to the site, cameras set up to record the daily struggle; CNN has a full-time correspondent on the scene. Here are the details. For many years, workers having been trying to organize at Smithfield […]

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Here’s a run-down of the press conference held just a little while ago. The scene was the Al Dente restaurant just off the main casino area. Double long tables covered with linen table clothes sat in the center of the room. Sitting at the head of the table were UFCW president Joe Hansen (UFCW) and […]

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Twenty brave souls are going to try to go against the grain today and try to vote in a union at the Beast from Bentonville. What’s interesting about the article below is its mentioning of what happened to the other people who tried to get a union at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart acts like an organized crime […]

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