MintPress attended a recent panel discussion on how Wal-Mart workers are organizing — or failing to organize — to protect their rights everywhere from “Bentonville to Beijing.”
“Either they were unaware, uninformed or unintentionally did this,”… “It could be all three of those. Whatever it is, it’s a bad move and they need to correct it and they need to do it quickly.”
A disturbing new video shows how police officers used aggressive interrogation techniques against the girlfriend of John Crawford just moments after they shot him dead inside a Walmart.
Victims family files lawsuit against Cincinnati police CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of a black man fatally shot by a white police officer as he held an air rifle inside a Wal-Mart filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday charging negligence and violation of the man's civil rights. The lawsuit was filed in U.S.
“These workers paid with their lives to make cheap clothes for Western brands,” a global labor union tells MintPress, calling on the factory’s largest customer, Wal-Mart, “to take responsibility and pay up.”
WASHINGTON --- Survivors of a major fire at a Bangladeshi garments factory in 2012 are still calling for adequate compensation from some of the most well-known brands in the United States. These companies include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., reportedly the largest buyer at the Tazreen factory, as well as The Walt Disney Co., Sears
A raise in the minimum wage has failed to register with Republicans – who have indicated that they will attempt to seek an injunction to block the president’s executive order.
The White House announced on Jan. 26 that President Barack Obama would sign an executive order mandating that the minimum wage of certain federal contractor employees be raised to $10.10 – a 39-percent increase from the current federal minimum mandated hourly wage of $7.25. This would be just shy of the highest inflation-adjusted
Stores now track shoppers as they browse to gather information about their target market.
If you’re one of the millions of American shoppers venturing to the mall this holiday season, make sure to plaster a big smile on your face, as more than 1,000 different retailers -- from tiny boutiques to retail giants such as Macy’s
The choice that is presented for us by global capitalism is as it currently stands – for it to survive one must sacrifice either the idea of national sovereignty or the concept of a fully representative, democratic society.
This past week three events of note took place that encapsulates perfectly the growing discomfort with how mankind – led by the West and in particular the United States – has organized social life around the world. While no one can predict the future, if these lurking problems are not dealt with in a serious manner soon then history
