By Doug Altner, aynrandcenter.org
Walmart has been receiving negative publicity for discouraging employees from supporting the small but vocal activist group OUR Walmart (Organization United for Respect at Walmart)—a union-backed organization that advocates for higher wages and more benefits for Walmart associates. Are Walmart managers who do this guilty of any wrongdoing?
By Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles
Armed with a temporary restraining order against demonstrators and a $15-billion stock buyback program for investors, Wal-Mart held its annual shareholder meeting Friday.
By Russ Brown
As union membership continues to dwindle as a percentage of America’s overall workforce (11.3 percent), labor unions try flexing their muscles in an attempt to prove that they still have relevance.
By Josh Eidelson, The Nation
Walmart employees are on strike in Miami, Massachusetts and the California Bay Area this morning, kicking off what organizers promise will be the first “prolonged strikes” in the retail giant’s history.
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
The Nation’s Josh Eidelson reports on the latest effort by organized labor to crack the so-far-impervious-to-unionization stance of Walmart:
By Amanda Becker, Thomson Reuters News & Insight Labor groups are pushing back after Wal-Mart Stores
By Emily Jane Fox, CNN Money A Black Friday weekend spat between Wal-Mart and groups
By Chris Woodward, One News Now A conservative columnist and commentator thinks Big Labor will
