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"Poverty Pay" Leads Walmart Employees To Skip Lunch – Or Steal It From Coworkers
On Friday morning, over 100 Walmart associates and about 1,000 supporters began a fast to shine light on what they describe as Walmart’s unlivable wages.
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How to Steal from Taxpayers While Blaming the Poor
It’s a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to “get a job” by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net.
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Labor Rising: Why Worker Rights Are Human Rights
Courts and employers must heed the call to enforce already-guaranteed worker rights, mandate a living wage, and ensure humane working conditions for those whose work is so vital to our economy.
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How the Waltons of Walmart Are Obstructing Our Clean Energy Future
The nation's richest family is funding nearly two dozen organizations working to roll back renewable energy policies, while pushing for regulations aimed at hindering the growth of rooftop solar power.
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Walmart, World's Largest Company, Cuts Healthcare to 30,000 Employees
The retail behemoth gave lawmakers a lesson in economics Tuesday when it disclosed it would no longer offer health insurance to tens of thousands of part-time employees.
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Why Corporations Breaking Environmental Laws Are Getting A Free Pass
Grappling with a shrinking budget and limited manpower, the EPA now pursues criminal charges in “fewer than one-half of one percent” of total legal violations.
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Moms Against Walmart: Demanding Better Pay and Conditions For Women Workers
Female employees at the bottom of the income scale are making too little to support their families – and some at the nation's biggest retailer are taking to the streets to demand a change.
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Walmart's Bangladeshi Workers End 11-Day Hunger Strike And Receive Back Pay
1,600 workers in five clothing factories, most of them women earning less than $70 a month, had been on hunger strike since July 28.
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Walmart Resistance Grows As Northern California Says No to Low-Wage Retail Giant
The ongoing campaign by a broad coalition of labor, faith, environmental and community-based organizations to oppose the Walmart plan has implications for the entire state, if not the nation.
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The 50 Companies That Rule the 50 States
This map, designed by telecommunications firm Broadview Networks, reveals the largest companies in each U.S. state based on revenue.
