Top 12 Stories This Week: April 1

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Big Box Retailers Make Billions off Food Stamps, Often Put Workers on them

The biggest winners of the SNAP economy are the ones the government won't tell you about. Read more >

WHAT'S NEWS THIS WEEK   2. 15% of Jobs Added in March were Temp Jobs Just look inside the numbers of how "well" American workers are doing.  In a somewhat related story, see how low of a wage you could "get by" with.

3. Emails link Senator to Coordinating with Anti-Union Group to Bust UAW's Volkswagen Vote Emails from a Senator's Chief of staff show a direct coordination between Politicians and an Anti-Union group hired to keep the UAW out of the Volkswagen plant.  UAW requested a delay after collusion was suspected, later in the week an anti-union group requested the hearing delay denied.

4. A&P to Host Private-Label Event Tomorrow, April 5th, A&P will host private label events at Pathmark and Waldbaum's stores.

5. Domino's Pizza Settles Wage Suit, Pays out $448K 23 Domino's Pizza franchises throughout New York settled wage violations spanning from 2007-2013, for paying workers under minimum wage.  It's about time.

6. UPS Fires 250 Teamsters After Protest After 250 Teamsters protested a coworkers firing, UPS handed out pink slips to all of them.  On Thursday, NYC Politicians rallied and threatened to pull the plug on UPS city contracts.

7. Target's Anti-Union Video, What They Say &  What They Really Mean AFL-CIO gives a translation of Target's latest installment of union-busting film.  This week Gawker discovered they even hired union actors to star in their new film.

8. UFCW President Hansen on "Save American Workers Act": "Deceptively Named" Read his full statement here.   9. Hungry For Savings It doesn't add up; Big retailers like Walmart are donating millions to food shelters that their employees rely on.

10. Walmart Heiress is Rumored Buyer of  Most Expensive Co-Op in NYC History

11. NYC's Grace's Marketplace is Relocating

12. Instacart expanded to LA

A service that hires "freelance" delivery persons to shop at your favorite supermarkets, and deliver them straight to your door, last week they expanded to NYC.

Top 10 News: Fairway's New Store, Eyes on Detroit

Fairway opened their 13th & smallest store in Chelsea this week, creating over 250 union jobs!  You can check out photos on our blog.

Wall Street Journal Front Page: Worker Centers, the Backdoor to Union Organizing.

Another Car Wash in the Bronx was organized this week! Congratulations to our new union brothers and sisters!

A&P has hired a Credit Suisse to explore options, including the sale of the the franchise.

Fast Food workers in NYC this week voted to strike Friday evening!  The strike comes after a Domino's Pizza worker was fired for bringing his coworkers to a pro-union rally earlier this year.

30 workers walked off the job on Wednesday at a warehouse of a luggage supplier to Walmart, to protest retaliation from managers after the workers complained about poor working conditions.

Detroit Bankruptcy: Sure you can read The Economist and almost every media outlet pondering if Detroit can be mended...But more importantly what does this bankruptcy mean to workers' public pensions?  Unions are fighting back, urging the White House to protect worker pensions.

Is it time to raise the federal minimum wage?  4 out of 5 Americans think so.

The Voting Rights Act is "the cornerstone of modern civil rights law, we cannot allow the slow unraveling of the progress so many, throughout history, have sacrificed so much to achieve" -Attorney General Eric Holder on the US Justice Department  seeking to block Texas from implementing voting rights changes without federal approval.

Did you know Goldman Sachs makes your beer more expensive? Seriously.  Pretty insane stuff here.