By Mark | November 22, 2012 Last night, Walmart warehouse and retail employees in Southern California walked off their jobs and began picketing. They were joined this morning by Walmart employees in Seattle. And, if all goes according to plan, a great many more will join them tomorrow, on Black Friday, when employees from over 1,000 Walmart stores are expected to [...]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-consumerism, Buy Nothing Day, consumerism, Corporate Action Network, food stamps, labor, labor movement, Making Change at Walmart, Rob Walton, Stand Up Live Better Fund, UFCW, unions, United Food & Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Walmart, welfare, Winning Words Project | While I don’t generally make it a practice to steal posts outright, in their entirety, from other sites, I just read something on Metafilter that I want to share with you. It concerns the busting of the machinists’ union at Caterpillar, and I really doubt whether I could say it any better. Here’s the post, [...]
By Mark | September 5, 2011 I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I wrote a couple of years ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today. As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national [...]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, History, Other | Also tagged 1882, American Railway Union, arbitration, Chicago, company towns, Eugene Debs, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, John Peter Altgeld, Labor Day, minimum wage, National Guard, Peter S. Grosscup, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Richard Olney, union busting, unions, William A. Woods, World's Colombian Exposition | Once again, the Republicans of Michigan are making national headlines for their bold new policy initiatives. Today, it’s House bill 4465, sponsored by Bill Rogers of Brighton. If passed, it would, among other things, punish striking teachers by stripping them of their credentials for two years, making it impossible for them to work as educators [...]
Posted in Education, Politics | Also tagged Douglas Geiss, Gregory Baracy, HB 4241, HB 4465, HB 4466, House Education Committee, Lisa Brown, Michigan Education Association, parasitic teachers, Paul Scott, teachers and their evil agendas, teachers union, tenure, thought crime, union busting | By Mark | September 7, 2009 As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national holiday until 1894, in the wake of a bloody strike by employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, an Illinois-based manufacturer of luxury rail cars. It all began when the company, [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, History | Also tagged 1894, 40 hour work week, American Railway Union, ARU, Chicago, child labor, coal mines, Colombian Exposition, company towns, Eugene Debs, federal troops, Governor Altgeld, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Interstate commerce act, Jackson Park, Kansas Heritage Group, Labor Day, labor history, mail, National Guard, national holidays, OSHA, Peter S. Grosscup, property destruction, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Rail, revolt, Richard Olney, riots, Sherman anti-trust act, strikebreakers, the threat of Socialism, unions, William A. Woods | 
