FEATURED
The memo, marked
“highly sensitive,” tells Walmart marketing managers to make sure that
the company’s 4,965 United States stores discount aging meat and baked
goods to maximize the chance that those items will sell before their
expiration dates. The memo — leaked for public use by a Walmart manager
unhappy about under-staffing — also tells stores to be sure to “rotate”
dairy products and eggs, which means removing expired items and adding
new stock at the bottom and back of display cases.
Related:
The sit-in was live-streamed on blackfridayprotests.org. Take action and participate in the Black Friday protests that the workers are planning to hold on 28 November.
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WHAT'S NEWS THIS WEEK
Workers at a
Whole Foods Market in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood are
demanding higher wages and the right to collective bargaining without
being reprimanded by management. Specific demands
include a $5 wage increase, better working conditions, a comprehensive
health plan with affordable premiums and deductibles, and no retaliation
for forming a union. Whole Foods — a company that has long preached a
philosophy of corporate benevolence — is the second-largest non-union
food retailer in the country.
President
Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon
as next week a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement
system that will protect up to five million unauthorized immigrants from
the threat of deportation and provide many of them with work permits,
according to administration officials who have direct knowledge of the
plan.
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Stop & Shop has partnered with AARP to provide free supermarket store tours for Long Island, N.Y., seniors. |
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The second new concept store makes its Queens debut.
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McDonald’s
Corp. and other franchise companies are preparing a major public
campaign to fight a recent National Labor Relations Board determination
that could hold them responsible for the labor practices of their
franchisees.
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States are raising their own minimum wage higher than Congress' suggestion.
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Sad, but true.
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8. President Obama Speaks Out on Net-Neutrality
If you haven't heard of Net-Neutrality, well, you should read about it now. |
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The nation’s
four postal unions are mobilizing a National Day of Action on Nov. 14,
to send a powerful message to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the
United States Postal Service Board of Governor’s: Stop Delaying America’s Mail.
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Exotic
dancers at a midtown Manhattan strip club were awarded nearly $10.9
million by a U.S. judge who found they were employees unfairly
classified by the club as independent contractors.
For
the first time in history, federal contract workers at the U.S. Capitol
building walked off the job Thursday, fighting for a $15 minimum wage,
better benefits and the right to unionize. They joined workers from the
Pentagon, the Smithsonian museums, the National Zoo and other federal
contract workers in the nation’s capital.
She told Pablo S. Torre of ESPN the Magazine,
"Let's call it what it is. [Without the players,] [t]here. Would. Be.
No. Money. Thirty more owners can come in, and nothing will change.
These guys [the players] go? The game will change. So let's stop
pretending."
Editorial of the Week:
This one hurts, a
Canadian writes an open letter to Americans giving us a reality check
of all the progress President Obama has made since taking over for
George W. Bush.
Photo of the week via #WalmartStrikers:
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