Tag: Labor unions

According to Payscale.com, Walmart's cashiers on average make between $7.50 and $10.77 and sales associates make between $7.63 and $11.83. (AP File)

How D.C.’s effort to raise the minimum wage helps Walmart

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama turns around to respond to hecklers interrupting his speech about immigration reform, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

AFL-CIO urges Obama to halt deportations

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

DetroitÃÂ Mayor Dave Bing speaks at a news conference inÃÂ Detroit onÃÂ Tuesday. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Beltway Confidential

Judge okays Detroit’s bankruptcy

Sean Higgins · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Service Employees International Union members rally in the capitol rotunda before a Senate hearing on pension legislation at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill. (AP/Seth Perlman)

Unions target Illinois Democrats in pension reform battle

Kerry Lester · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s red tape flood could negate lame-duck status

Mark Tapscott · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Fast-food protests planned for 100 cities

Candice Choi · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Organizers behind a series of strikes in the fast food industry over the last few months are promising another round Thursday. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Fast-food strikes set for Thursday

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

A press conference call by the activist group OUR Walmart turned awkward when the group was repeatedly unable to say how many Walmart employees had joined in the group's long-planned Black Friday protests. Walmart itself put the figure at just 20.ÃÂ (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Walmart says only 20 employees joined Black Friday protests

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

A women chants her slogans while marching along the street during a protest against Walmart on Sept. 5 in Los Angeles. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Beltway Confidential

Labor Relations Board OKs union paying workers to protest Walmart

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

A woman protests against Walmart in Boynton Beach, Fla., in November 2012. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Examiner Editorial: Unions shop for Walmart protesters for the holidays

Editorial Writer · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

Patricia Ann Millett, right, had advised Starbucks in its efforts to prevent unionization of the company. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Obama appointees giving Big Labor big headaches

Sean Higgins · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

In this March 16, 2011, file photo, a security fence surrounds the inmate housing on New York's Rikers Island correctional facility in New York. New York City has sued the correction officers' union for what it says was an illegal strike at Rikers Island last week.

NYC files suit against correction officers’ union

Washington Examiner · November 26, 2013 5:00 am