At a hearing before the Senate's Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee today, Konnie Campagna, a registered nurse from Washington State, told the assembled Senators that it was time the Federal government started looking out for workers' safety again: On my...
It’s difficult to comprehend an economy where a corporate executive leaves his office every night wearing a watch that cost more than the building janitor makes in a year. But that is the reality of an economy where income inequality...
Today's New York Times picks up the continuing stooooory of Paula Deen versus the workers of Tar Heel, North Carolina: Paula Deen, the Food Network’s ebullient queen of butter-drenched Southern cooking, has found herself in the middle of a dispute...
So what happened when workers from Tar Heel tried to tell celebrity chef Paula Deen about how badly they'd been treated by Smithfield? Over on the Huffington Post, CtW Chair Anna Burger has the story......
More buzz about the Justice at Smithfield campaign's plans to meet up with TV personality Paula Deen tonight... From the Washington Post's Reliable Source column, "Pork and Deen: A Problem Pairing?": Will Paula Deen be the next Kathie Lee Gifford?...
Paula Deen, the TV chef best known for her fondness for no-artery-is-safe concotions like hot dogs wrapped in bacon and smothered with lard (yum!) is bringing her road show to Washington, DC tomorrow night, signing books at the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
It's Tax Day! And while the rest of us have to pay our own taxes, Wal-Mart has figured out a way to get all of us to pick up their tab. New research from Citizens for Tax Justice and...
An editorial in today’s New York Times explains why poverty levels in American may be higher than previously thought, after the Census Bureau released alternative formulas for measuring poverty. The measurement that most closely matches the formula recommended by...
Last month, the New York Times’ David Cay Johnston reported the extraordinary fact that, in 2005, the top 1 percent of Americans received their largest share of national income since 1928. Further, while total reported income in the U.S. increased...
Hotel workers rally in DC
Regarding the Big Picture behind the Circuit City fiasco, Harold Meyerson nailed it in yesterday's Washington Post: One can only imagine the effect of Circuit City's announcement on the morale of the workers who didn't get fired. The remaining salesclerks...
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported job growth of 180,000 in March, the business press and the Bush administration hailed the announcement as proof of the economy’s resilience and America’s continued prosperity. Why, then, did our March survey of...
Edwards pressures Smithfield CEO for union recognition (Associated Press) From L.A., a reinvention of Big Labor (Christian Science Monitor) The Joke That Is "Secret Ballot" Union Elections (Nathan Newman at TPMCafe)...
Remember that Wal-Mart security worker who blew the whistle on their creepily extensive spying operations? Well, Wal-Mart has struck back: Wal-Mart won a gag order to stop a fired security operative from talking to reporters, and a judge ordered...
Latte Laborers Take On a Latte-Liberal Business (New York Times) Radio Interview with CtW Chair Anna Burger on the Working American Dream (WMNF-FM, streaming MP3) FedEx Sought to Thwart Union Drive, Labor Board Says (Bloomberg)...
Apparently the high cost of low prices includes privacy: The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. worker fired last month for intercepting a reporter's phone calls says he was part of a larger, sophisticated surveillance operation that included snooping not only on employees, but...
This morning, Change to Win is releasing the results of a new survey, "The Working American Dream Agenda". This survey is a follow-up to our 2006 American Dream Survey, and further explores some of the issues revealed by that earlier survey....
If you haven't been following the battle out in Santa Barbara, California, over the fate of their local paper, the Santa Barbara News-Press, you really should be. A recap: last summer, nine top journalists at the News-Press walked out, protesting...
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This past Saturday, the UFCW's Justice @ Smithfield campaign asked people in cities across the Southeast U.S. to come out to their local Harris Teeter store to protest that chain's use of "packaged with abuse" products from the Smithfield plant...
