New Orleans The largest company and largest employer in the world is of course Arkansas’ own, Wal-Mart. The business model has a lot of elements — low prices, low wages, large supply, convenience to customers, are among them — but another one is the need to constantly expand whether that means opening 300 or more …
Category: Labor Organizing
Ending Extreme Poverty
New Orleans: Bono, Paul McCarthney, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Beyonce, and a mess of others in ten cities and eight countries were singing about it, there was a movie on HBO about it, and the richest countries in the world meeting as the G8 in Scotland are talking about it, so I just have to say …
Organizing the Biggest and Baddest — the Wal-Mart Challenge
New Orleans: As the debate concerning labor’s future rages on, prodded by Andy Stern, International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and answered by one union after another, President Sweeney has agreed on the need for debate and the need to form committees to discuss the various proposals generated. Workers in general and union …