‘People of conscience today should boycott HP companies for providing imaging and technology for Israeli apartheid,’ declared an activist who helped target South Africa’s apartheid policies in the 1970s.
Some companies have explicitly said that they will close in order to let employees be home with friends and family. Staples said, “We want our customers and associates to enjoy Thanksgiving their own way” by closing. “Family time is extremely important to us, and we want our associates to enjoy the holiday with their loved ones.”
On Thursday, most Americans will gather together with family and friends to have dinner and celebrate Thanksgiving. But not everyone will be able to enjoy the holiday the way they’d like. Eleven brands say they will be open on Thanksgiving this year, requiring millions of workers to show up for shifts during the national holiday. CREDIT:
Walmart workers are planning protests at well over a thousand stores across the nation next week on Black Friday, Nov. 28, the busiest shopping day of the year.
The national wave of protests, which could be the biggest yet to hit the giant retailer, comes on the heels of last week's first sit down strikes in Walmart's history. Some
Massive turnout expected for strike against low wages, illegal retaliation.
As the shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday came early this year with an increasing amount of retailers opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day, employees for one of the largest big-box-stores in the country, Walmart,
Making Change at Walmart: “The movement of low-wage workers has taken off in 2013.”
Ahead of what is being called the largest day of action yet against Walmart on the upcoming Black Friday shopping extravaganza, a wave of strikes against the retail giant have already begun. Workers in Miami, Florida and Brooklyn Center, Minnesota walked off the job Monday following actions in Tampa on Saturday and strikes in Sacramento, Dallas,
