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What I Learned on the Bus to Bentonville

Al Norman | Posted 06.10.2013 | Business
Al Norman

Thirty-six years after Wal-Mart was founded, an organized group finally went into Mr. Sam's neighborhood to make it clear that the will of the people was to drive Wal-Mart out of hometown America. That's what brought us to Bentonville.

Dave Jamieson

Walmart Worker Strikes, Is Fired 6 Months Later

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.30.2013 | Business

On the day before Thanksgiving last year, Vanessa Ferreira went on strike at her Walmart store in St. Cloud, Fla. As HuffPost reported at the time, sh...

Alice Hines

Black Friday Strikers To Walmart: It's On!

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 11.26.2012 | Business

DALLAS -- On Thanksgiving afternoon, as freshly stuffed Americans prepared for the shopping bacchanal known as Black Friday, hundreds of Walmart worke...

Dave Jamieson

One Courageous Walmart Worker's Strike Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.22.2012 | Business

There was an employee walkout at a Walmart Supercenter in St. Cloud, Fla., on Wednesday morning, but even if you were shopping there when it happened ...

Home for the Holidays? Not for Walmart Workers

Joe Hansen | Posted 01.20.2013 | Business
Joe Hansen

Wanted: Store Associates who will work for low pay, poor working conditions, erratic schedules -- including working on Thanksgiving Day -- and not enough hours to qualify for health care.

Stand With Striking Walmart Workers on Black Friday (VIDEO)

Dennis Trainor | Posted 11.16.2012 | Business
Dennis Trainor

The Walmart strike, which originated in Los Angeles, has spread to 12 cities and counting. A series of strikes will occur next week that has the poten...

Walmart Launches Offensive On Black Friday Strikes

Reuters | Posted 01.16.2013 | Business

By Jessica Wohl Nov 16 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is taking its first legal step to stop months of protests and rallies outside ...

Alice Hines

Walmart Strikers Promise Huge Black Friday Showdown With 1,000 Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 11.19.2012 | Business

An organization of Walmart workers is planning a series of strikes next week that they hope will paralyze the world's largest retailer on the biggest ...

A Clear Choice for Workers

Joe Hansen | Posted 01.05.2013 | Politics
Joe Hansen

One candidate -- President Obama -- supports workers' rights and is committed to protecting them. The other -- Mitt Romney -- is out to destroy them. That's what at stake in this election.

Dave Jamieson

Strikes Mark New Chapter For Walmart

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.15.2012 | Business

When a strike among Walmart store employees spread to twelves cities last week, a spokesman for the largest private-sector employer in the world made ...

Dave Jamieson

NFL Refs Return While Other Lockouts Grind On

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.29.2012 | Business

Each week in Muscatine, Iowa, Tony Newton and his friends watch the trucks haul grain out of the local corn-processing plant, trying to gauge producti...

Dave Jamieson

At DNC, Workers Decry Southern Hostility To Unions

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.04.2012 | Politics

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Unionized workers and progressive activists from North Carolina and beyond gathered at a Baptist church here Monday afternoon, usin...

Dave Jamieson

Union Puts Bullseye Back On Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.25.2012 | Business

Late last week, an administrative law judge in New York ruled that big-box retailer Target had violated labor law in the runup to a union election at ...

Big Poultry's Dangerous Push for Faster Line Speeds

Joe Hansen | Posted 06.16.2012 | Politics
Joe Hansen

The only thing worse than a chicken with its head cut off is one with its head in the sand. That was my initial reaction after reading Administrator Alfred Almanza's piece defending Big Poultry's push to dramatically increase line speed in our nation's plants.

Paul Ryan's Class Warfare

Joe Hansen | Posted 05.28.2012 | Politics
Joe Hansen

In the coming days, you will hear the Ryan plan called "bipartisan." Supporters will try to sell it as a plan to "fix Medicare." But all the poll-tested words in the world will not change the fact that this budget is no different than the one the American people soundly rejected last year.

Lila Shapiro

Union Blasts Target Closure

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.22.2012 | Business

Back in June when workers at a Target store just outside New York City were about to vote on whether to unionize, employees received an ominous pamphl...

Dave Jamieson

Walmart Expands Into South Africa

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.16.2012 | Business

A South African appeals court issued a decision last week that greenlights a merger between Massmart, one of the largest retailers in the country, and...

Daniels Wrong On 'Right to Work'

Joe Hansen | Posted 03.26.2012 | Politics
Joe Hansen

In responding to the State of the Union address, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels advocated the failed Republican policies of the past. But even more extreme than the plan he laid out last night is what he is trying to do in Indiana.

Lila Shapiro

Walmart Dumped By Pension Fund Over Poor Worker Conditions

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 01.05.2012 | Business

A major pension fund and longtime investor in Walmart has blacklisted the retailing behemoth, citing poor labor practices and the company's anti-union...

Fort Collins Medical Marijuana Workers Go Union

Posted 12.18.2011 | Denver

The workers at seven Fort Collins medical marijuana dispensaries have voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), Colorado’s ...

Dave Jamieson

For Workers Stuck Part-Time, ‘Hours Are The New Bonus’

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.23.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON -- A little over two years ago, Floyd Kelly, then an associate at Walmart, transferred from one company store in Washington State to anothe...

Southland Grocery Workers Poised to Strike

David Macaray | Posted 11.21.2011 | Business
David Macaray

Unless last minute negotiations result in management backing off their demand that health care benefits be drastically altered, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers are ready to walk off their jobs.

Lila Shapiro

Union-Busting Tactics More Pervasive Than Thought, Study Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.28.2011 | Business

In the last half-century of American organized labor, the deck has rarely been so stacked against workers, say labor historians. When it comes to u...

Lila Shapiro

WATCH: Tensions Rise Before Historic Union Vote At Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.17.2011 | Business

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. -- On the day before a historic union vote at a Target outside New York City, tensions at the store -- among employees, management...

Lila Shapiro

American Labor's Next Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.16.2011 | Business

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. -- Workers at a Target store in Long Island have a different twist on the discount retailer's famous catch phrase, "Expect More. P...