Part of the Point of Minimum Wage Increases is the Bump up from Wage Compression

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New Orleans    In the continued dumbing down of the Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal as it builds its platform for the far right, a new low was reached in the discussion of minimum wages as Richard Berman, now touting for the Center for Union Facts (sic).  In a piece entitled, “Why Unions Want a …

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Walmart Watch: Occupy Reunion, Bangladesh Fire, and Spreading Retail Chaos

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New Orleans   The protests of Black Friday may be over but that’s about all that’s over on either Black Friday or the woeful Walmart watch. Occupy’s Role in Protests One interesting side note of the protests is the critical, though largely unrecognized, role of the remnants of last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement and its …

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