Wages – Page 124 – People's World

Strikers blast Caterpillar greed, reject concessions

May 14, 2012 By John Bachtell

Unabashed corporate greed, is how striking workers are describing Caterpillar's efforts to slash wages and benefits while eliminating pensions and seniority rights at their plant here.

Shrimp workers exploited and enslaved at Walmart warehouse

May 9, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Two thousand shrimp workers from Cambodia and Myanmar suffered human rights abuses and indentured servitude at the hands of Walmart.

Florida tomato harvesters take penny campaign to Giant Food

April 20, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Day by day for the last eight years, Santiago Perez has toiled in the tomato fields of Immokalee, Fla. It's not fun.

Raise the minimum wage

March 28, 2012 By John Case

Despite claims of economic recovery heard recently, median weekly worker income for most months of the past two years, just like most years of the past 35 years, is either flat, or less, than the year...

Trumka explains why workers must back Obama

March 16, 2012 By John Wojcik

"As president, Barack Obama has placed his faith in America's working men and women to lead our country to economic recovery and to our full potential as a nation," Richard Trumka said during the AFL-CIO Executive...