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Big retail chains like Walmart fight being held accountable for injuries to workers

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The federal government is trying to do a better job tracking workplace injuries, which would make it easier for workers to show that they were injured on the job and get some compensation. But—of course—industry lobby groups are fighting hard to prevent accountability. Currently, manufacturing companies are required to tell the government about injuries workers …

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Striking Walmart Workers Stage L.A. Sit-Downs at Stores and in the Street

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In Los Angeles yesterday, Walmart workers participated in their boldest action to date: the first-ever sit-down strike at a Walmart store. They were protesting an end to retaliation when they speak out for $15 an hour, full-time hours and respect at work. The striking workers entered the Crenshaw Walmart shortly before 10 a.m. PST and …

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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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Walmart Wouldn’t Make a Dime Without Its Workers

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A group of Walmart associates marched today from the AFL-CIO to the Washington, D.C., Walton Family Foundation’s offices to deliver more than 15,000 signatures from workers asking Walmart to pay $15 an hour and provide full-time hours. Shouts of “We’re fired up! Can’t take it no more!” rang out as the workers and hundreds of supporters …

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Walmart Moms’ Walkout Starts Friday

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In 2008, political commentators made a lot of fuss about “Walmart Moms,” a demographic that was supposedly key to the election. The Walmart Mom was an updated, service-economy version of the blue-collar worker: Someone without a college degree, working and raising a family, usually white, possibly religious. She was courted heavily by both parties and perceived, at …

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Pregnant Workers Need More Protection than Walmart’s Giving Them

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Walmart’s habit of making pregnant women choose between their paychecks and their health by denying them light duty got the retail giant enough bad publicity to spur a change in policy. The new policy leaves Walmart a whole lot of wiggle room to continue putting pregnant women in difficult positions, but it’s an improvement. However, …

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Workers say Walmart’s ‘Extra Day’s Pay’ for Thanksgiving is a Sham

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To make it sound less problematic that its stores are opening at 6 pm on Thanksgiving, Walmart has been telling anyone who’ll listen that it’s giving “an extra day’s pay” to those working the holiday. Awesome! Now tell me what you mean by “day.” No, silly, Walmart doesn’t mean everyone who works Thanksgiving gets eight …

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Could You Live Off $25k a Year Like Most Walmart Workers? No, You Couldn’t.

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Last month, Walmart CEO Bill Simon revealed rather cluelessly that the vast majority of Walmart workers, as many as 825,000 in the United States, earn less than $25,000 a year. The sum is so low the average worker for the country’s biggest employer is struggling to make ends meet. By matching its low prices with insultingly low wages, …

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Dozens Of Walmart Workers Walk Out On Strike In Miami

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In the latest labor action against Walmart, dozens of workers reportedly walked out on the job on Friday to go on strike. Workers demanded higher wages and better hours, and one worker told Salon that he estimated 80 people took part in the action. The strike came after protests in 15 different cities in September against the country’s largest …

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Would raising the minimum wage help Walmart?

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Would a higher minimum wage be good for business at Walmart? Many experts say so—after all, a higher minimum wage would give many Walmart customers a little more disposable incometo spend at the store: David Cooper, an economic analyst with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, agrees with Demos’s Ruetschlin that the sluggish economic recovery means a …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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