| Oct 22, 2014 | Economy / BusinessTiffany Beroid, a mother and Wal-Mart employee in Laurel, Maryland, was forced to drop out of college because of her employer’s low wages and erratic scheduling practices. When she spoke out about the problems she faced, Wal-Mart fired her. Since then, Beroid...
| | Environment / HealthGosh, time flies when it’s pushed along by a jet stream of greed. It seems like only yesterday that Wal-Mart announced, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, that the super-rich retailing colossus wasn’t a scrooge after all. Indeed, while the...
| Oct 8, 2014 | Economy / BusinessImagine the Three Stooges as waiters. Curly’s pouring hot soup in laps, Moe’s sneezing in the spaghetti, and Larry’s lighting a well-coiffed woman’s hair on fire with the bananas flambé. When their boss finally gives them the boot, the...
| | Economy / BusinessAs an old popular song asks: What do you get if you “work your fingers right down to the bone?” Boney fingers. As housekeepers in the sprawling Marriott hotel chains know, that’s more than a cute lyric. It’s the truth. These “room...
| Oct 1, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyLolita Lledo spends all day talking on her cell phone, texting, and checking her Facebook page, though not for the reasons you might think. As the associate director of the Pilipino Workers Center in Los Angeles, she relies on social networking to keep in touch with...
