What's News This Week?

Wal-Mart’s growing trade deficit with China has displaced more than 400,000 U.S. jobs

New report from the Economic Policy Institute outlines another effect Walmart is having on our economy. Read the entire report @EPI.

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WHAT'S NEWS THIS WEEK:     1. More Jobs, Cheaper Gas And Rising Stocks Help The Economy Look Up       2. Foodtown Operator bids $1 million for Pathmark name   According to court documents, K-50-15 Corp. has offered $1 million for assets including the Pathmark logo, trademarks and brand names Pathmark, Chefmark, Big Deals and Sav-A-Center; the Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition; and the Pathmark.com domain name.

3. Rally to Create a Safer World for Construction Workers in NYC   18 workers have died in the last fiscal year in NYC due to construction accidents. A rally with coffins took place this week to raise awareness and call for safer construction sites.

4. Coca-Cola Workers are on Strike in Chicago   "They haven't given us any respect," said Carl Maxwell, a nine-year veteran of the company who was among about three dozen workers waving picket signs as the sun rose outside Coke's facility in the Chicago suburb of Niles. "We don't want to be here, but we have no choice." Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/workplace/article47761650.html#storylink=cpy

5. NY Board of Appeals Rejects Appeal to End $15 Fast-Food Wage Hike   New York state oversight board on Wednesday upheld the decision by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration to gradually raise the hourly minimum wage for many fast-food workers to $15.   The New York Industrial Board of Appeals rejected the National Restaurant Association's arguments that that the wage order was unconstitutional, arbitrary, unsupported by the evidence and focused improperly on fast-food chains with more than 30 locations.   Read the full ruling here.

6. Never Forget? Senate and Congress are on the verge of forgetting our 9/11 first responders   When Jon Stewart and a group of 9/11 responders walked the halls of Congress this past week hoping to get commitments from senators to pass a permanent 9/11 bill, what they mostly got were business cards.   For Ray Pfeifer, a veteran of the New York City Fire Department with stage 4 cancer, those cards didn’t mean much. He threw them away. And he didn’t have them to show for a camera crew later when Stewart wanted to demonstrate what passes for commitment in Washington.

7. France Passes Law for Supermarkets to Donate Food to Charity rather than Destroying it All large-sized supermarkets will have to sign contracts with a charity group to facilitate food donations.   "It's scandalous to see bleach being poured into supermarket dustbins along with edible foods," Socialist member of parliament Guillaume Garot, who sponsored the bill, said.

8. Sales of subletted A&P stores could raise up to $28 million

9. Eric Claus, former A&P CEO, named CEO of Save-a-Lot

10. Video of birds eating meat inside a Walmart has gone viral   Watch this.

11. GOP Preps for Contested Convention

 

Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to sit atop the polls in the GOP presidential race.

 

 

12. The Risk of Not Fighting Climate Change

An Iraq War Veteran explains how defending America against climate change, can help defend our country.

 

13.  How the Friedrichs v. Calif. Teachers Association SCOTUS Case Could Actually Be a Boon for Unions

 

 

 

 

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