Activists forced Walmart to react with an increase in pay for their employees. See why this PR stunt must not stop activists from pursuing much more.
Popular activism works. Walmart is raising wages.
Walmart’s raise is just a small down-payment for the living wage all working Americans deserve. Activists will continue with the pressure on corporations.
6 Things Needed To Boost Labor And Wages (VIDEO)
Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, summarizes the 6 things that are needed to boost American labor and to increase wages. He does this in just over two and have managed to do so in a more concise manner than all the nonsense presented on the business channels. It is acknowledged that […]
Corporations Game Immigration Reform To Depress US Wages
America is a country of over three hundred million people. As of today the official unemployment rate is 7.6%. The real unemployment rate depending on who one reads is much higher, anywhere from 11% to 29%. Giving the above information one must ask why is it that corporations are pushing the government to add special […]
Unemployment Falls But New Jobs Pay Low Wages–World Wage Normalization?
While it is great to see the unemployment rate starting to fall, that the new jobs being created are low wages is a sinister outcome caused by 30 years of bad policy. The American Plutocracy has sacrificed the working middle class. They’ve done it by exporting labor to slave labor countries. They’ve supported policies that […]
Middle Class Americans Broke Because Of Government Policy Dictated By Plutocracy
If one watches CNBC or most financial channels, the impression is given that the free market as the best allocator of resources if left unfettered is the solution to all that ails the country’s economy. This god, the free market, will ensure that productivity and efficiency are rewarded. Additionally ones wage is somehow proportional to […]