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Low wages & unpredictable schedules: A toxic combination for part time employees

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

In a society that blurs the lines between corporations and people, perhaps it was inevitable that some employers would blur the lines between people and inanimate objects. Even so, it is shocking to learn that in a growing number of low wage industries, employers treat part time employees as fungible, disposable assets, instead of human …

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Hey, Walmart, Want to Fix Those Sales Problems? Why Not Invest in Workers?

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An internal memo, recently leaked by a Walmart manager, urged store managers to improve lagging sales, primarily through addressing problems with understocked shelves and with keeping fresh meat, dairy and produce stocked and aging or expired items off the shelves. Such complaints are widespread at Walmart stores and are likely a significant factor in the …

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Fast food workers and SEIU President arrested outside McDonald’s HQ

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Adriana Alvarez has worked at McDonald’s for 4 years and makes just $8.75 an hour. She’s fighting for $15 an hour to win a better life for herself and her two year-old son Manny. Just now, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Adriana and more than 120 fast food workers from across the country were arrested …

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We Cannot Build a Strong, Equitable Economy on Low-Paying Jobs

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage, SEIU, Uncategorized, wages / By max cyril

What started out last fall as a one-day walkout at fast-food restaurants to protest poverty-level wages and stand up for basic human dignity has transformed into a movement that has captured the public interest. I’ve been privileged, especially in recent weeks, to talk to institutional partners, policymakers and media about why low-wage workers across the …

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Can McDonalds Make A Profit While Paying $15 An Hour?

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage, wages / By max cyril

While the average McDonalds employee in the United States makes just above the $7.25 minimum wage, that story is different in other countries. As Jordan Weissmann reports at The Atlantic, the minimum wage for full-time adult workers in Australia is $14.50 and McDonalds employees just negotiated a 15 percent raise by 2016. Yet the company has about 900 locations in the …

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Walmart: Portrait of a Job Killer

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Whenever communities, lawmakers or activists question or criticize Walmart for the way it treats workers—the low-pay, the stores’ impact on the communities—the retail giant pulls out a well-worn script with a simple message, “Walmart creates jobs and if there’s one thing this economy needs, it’s more jobs.” Setting aside the quality of the jobs for …

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Low wages & unpredictable schedules: A toxic combination for part time employees

Hey, Walmart, Want to Fix Those Sales Problems? Why Not Invest in Workers?

Fast food workers and SEIU President arrested outside McDonald’s HQ

We Cannot Build a Strong, Equitable Economy on Low-Paying Jobs

Can McDonalds Make A Profit While Paying $15 An Hour?

Walmart: Portrait of a Job Killer

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