Think Twice Before Buying Holiday Gifts for Your Boss
A third of U.S. workers say they buy presents for their manager. It’s time to end this predatory ritual once and for all.
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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: The Season of Giving: IBEW Local 103 Holds Annual Christmas Toy Drive
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Members of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 103 in Boston came together over the weekend to …
Service + Solidarity Spotlight: The Season of Giving: Labor Brightens the Holidays for Hundreds of Illinois Kids
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Dozens of members of the Bloomington & Normal (Illinois) Trades & Labor Assembly turned out …
Spare a thought for workers who don’t get a Thanksgiving holiday
There are jobs that have to be done on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every other day of the year. We need doctors and nurses and firefighters and police. Then there are jobs that don’t have to be done … but workers are forced to do them anyway, because profit. Because the workers aren’t given a choice, other than the …
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Macy’s Will Make Employees Work On Thanksgiving Day
Macy’s announced on Thursday that its doors will be open this holiday season, starting at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving evening. Sales will continue through Black Friday and the weekend in over 700 of its retail stores nationwide. Macy’s, along with 12 other major retailers like Target, Best Buy, and JCPenny, made employees come in to work …
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U.S. Chamber to Members: It’s Cool to Make Your Employees Work on Christmas
This is a cross-post by Christy Setzer from U.S. Chamber Watch. Dragging a little today? Desperately trying to focus on work while wishing you were still on a beach? Just be glad you don’t work for a member company of the U.S. Chamber of Congress—you might not have gotten that vacation at all. In a …
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Wal-Mart’s Rob Walton Wins JWJ’s Scrooge of the Year
He beat out some tough competition, but Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart’s board of directors, is the top vote getter in the 11th annual Jobs with Justice (JWJ) Scrooge of the Year election. Walton deemed a “billionaire bully” by Brave New Films, has an estimated net worth around $21 billion, JWJ reports. As a family, …
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Layaway Santas Help Kmart Customers Pay Off Christmas Gifts
Kmart probably hasn’t made this much news since its 2002 bankruptcy filing. And this time, it’s warmer fuzzier news: At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by …
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37,000 Target Employees Sign Petition To Protest Working Long Hours On Thanksgiving
It’s no secret that to boost profits during a down economy, many retailers have put the squeeze on their employees to work longer and harder for less and less. That pressure only increases during the holiday season, when stores try to woo consumers with marathon sales and midnight openings. Workers are often forced to choose between …
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