Organizing

Walmart claims that it had nothing to do with a person from one of its advertising/PR agencies posing as a fake news reporter.  Wonder who's paying the PR firms' bills?  Read here for the full story in the LA Times.

Walmart claims that it had nothing to do with a person from one of its advertising/PR agencies posing as a fake news reporter.  Wonder who's paying the PR firms' bills?  Read here for the full story in the LA Times.

Today (Friday) at 4 pm, the Greater Allentown area will say goodbye to T-Mobile and its 605 Lehigh Valley jobs.  The company is moving the jobs to the Phillipines, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.

The Lehigh Valley labor movement is having a "sendoff" at 794 Roble Rd. in Allentown to let T-Mobile know how unhappy it is about losing these jobs.  Please come out and support middle class workers who tried to make a living and support their families.

  (Philadelphia, PA, May 9) -- A Philadelphia coalition today called for Walmart’s top executives to resign in the wake of news reports of a $24 million bribery scandal and cover-up in the company’s Mexico operations.

Meeting for a news conference at the newly opened Walmart on Wheatsheaf Lane near Aramingo Ave. in Post Richmond, members of the coalition said that reports of bribes paid to local officials in Mexico,

Visit here for the New York Time's report on a new study of NYC non-union retail workers -- a sad story of low wages, part-time jobs, few if any benefits and lots of wage law violations.

Members of UFCW Local 1776's Northeast PA Division braved the cold to stand in solidarity with workers loicked out since November at Cooper Tire in Ohio.  For the coverage by the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, visit here.