Tag: UFCW

In mid-December, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed legislation that would create a new Treasury Department agency called the Pension Rehabilitation Administration that would provide 30-year loans at low interest rates to shore up failing pension plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats hope to undo bipartisan 2014 fix for troubled pension plans

Sean Higgins · January 2, 2018 5:01 am

In previous years, United Food and Commercial Workers claimed that it would hold protests at hundreds of Walmarts across the country and that this was part of a rising movement of workers. In 2014, for example, the union announced it would hold events at 1,600 locations. 2017, however, marks the third year in a row that UFCW wasn't mounting such an effort, a tacit concession that Walmart had outlasted the union. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Union Walmart protests fizzle as a Black Friday tradition

Sean Higgins · November 24, 2017 5:01 am

A protest sign greets Black Friday shoppers at a Boynton Beach, Fla. Walmart store Friday, Nov. 28 2014. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Walmart violated workers’ union rights, judge says

Sean Higgins · December 11, 2014 5:59 pm

Eugene Puryear calls for a living wage and justice for Mike Brown as protesters storm Walmart, in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. A grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday, Nov. 24th, 2014, declined to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed African-American man. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Walmart workers scarce at Black Friday anti-Walmart protest in D.C.

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2014 5:10 pm

The union-backed group OUR Walmart said Friday its largest protests against the retailer on the day after Thanksgiving will occur at 10 locations nationally. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Ignore Black Friday protests: Walmart pays high wages

Jason Russell · November 27, 2014 10:00 am

A large gathering protests against Wal-Mart on Black Friday, Nov 23, 2012, in Secaucus, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Walmart protest will include 50 DC-area employees

Sean Higgins · November 25, 2014 11:34 pm

In this May 16, 2011 file photo, the WalMart Supercenter signage is seen in Springfield, Ill. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Union groups plan more ‘Black Friday’ protests at Walmart

Sean Higgins · November 14, 2014 8:58 pm

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) president Richard Trumka addresses members during the quadrennial AFL-CIO convention at Los Angeles Convention Center Monday, Sept 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Examiner Editorial: Unions that backed Obamacare now whine about higher costs

Washington Examiner · May 31, 2014 10:00 pm

The sign of a Walmart store in San Jose, Calif. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

Beltway Confidential

Walmart alleges union activists stormed ladies room in Michigan store

Sean Higgins · April 8, 2014 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

UFCW: NLRB ruling on Walmart case does not prevent us from protesting retailer

Sean Higgins · January 31, 2013 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

UPDATE: NLRB goes easy on UFCW in Walmart case

Sean Higgins · January 31, 2013 5:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Mitt Romney’s Mormonism vs. Jeremiah Wright’s Moronism

Washington Examiner · April 13, 2012 7:34 pm