...o raise its wages. It said the public focus on the issue “may intensify” over the coming months. But it warned that higher wages might impact its profit margins if it cannot offset [...]
...xpand, opening more than five new restaurants a day outside the United States in 2012. However many American workers have expressed frustration that the company’s success has not led to [...]
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...mart, and Chevron. The Obama administration has kept the TPP classified, making it the first-ever classification of a trade agreement. In addition to denying public access to its text, the [...]
...comfortable shoes. We’ll take the Fast Track train for a spin around town and pass out literature on the way. Sept. 25 – Join the Fair Trade Brigade: We will pass [...]
...with large agriculture,” she said. “We wanted to show that this man is just spin.” So did Froman offer anything more than spin at this hearing? Alisa Simmons of Global Trade [...]
...ame. Each year, we have gathered in Washington, D.C., in anger, outrage and the hope that we won’t have to do it again the following year. And then we do it again the next year, and now [...]
...g worse is stopping fast track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other rigged corporate trade agreements. We are in the midst of the key moment in that political [...]
...nted out that “Human Rights, consumer, labor, environment groups are not at the table. But more than 600 corporate representatives are participating.” Try this for an example of [...]
...such tribunal rulings might require taxpayer compensation, which could impact the financial health of the City of Los Angeles and its residents; and WHEREAS, two dozen environmental [...]
...l gone haywire, McDonald’s recently teamed up with Visa to create a financial planning site for its low-pay workforce. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the thing seems to have been literally [...]
..., where a bill was recently passed by the city council to pay workers for large retailers $12.50 an hour. Workers will also protest in Chicago, Boston, Sacramento, Miami and Dallas, according [...]
...moral nature of their demands will ultimately achieve reform. Labor activist César Chávez embodied this same trust when he embarked on three fasts for [...]
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...to vote to grant him Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority to negotiate a sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. Even those who defend free-trade agreements on the [...]
