A judge has ruled that Walmart must offer to rehire 16 workers that the company illegally fired in 2013 after they participated in a strike at Walmart headquarters. Stop acting like Walmart, Walmart.
Company Re-Ices Nasty Old Cookies With New Anti-Union Message: That Ain't Sweet!

At Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, more than 800 nurses are voting tonight on whether to unionize. The company’s shocking plan to stop them: old cookies.
After a successful employee unionization drive and a good deal of corporate foot-dragging, The Huffington Post will reportedly recognize the staff’s union this week, which would make it the largest of the recent crop of media unions.
NYC Luxury Landlords Are Stiffing Workers Because the City Is Letting Them
New York City luxury building owners are not paying their employees what they’re supposed to be paying them. They might change their ways, if only the city gave them any indication at all that the rules are being enforced.
Arianna Huffington Goes Conspicuously Silent on the Union Issue
When staffers at the Huffington Post launched their unionization campaign in October, Arianna Huffington said the company would “fully support” its workers and “embrace whatever decision they make on this issue.” She has a strange way of showing it.
Menards, the Gold Standard of Union-Hating Retailers
Menards is a large Midwestern home improvement chain most notable for the virulent anti-union mentality exhibited by its billionaire Republican owner. How much does Menards hate its own employees? Let us look.
Walmart Desperate to Keep Further Documents Revealing Employee Surveillance Tactics From Being Made Public
Last month, Bloomberg Businessweek published a big story on how Walmart tracks its employees to most effectively anticipate dissent and undermine potential organizers. The piece draws largely on documents produced in the course of discovery for a case before the National Labor Relations Board. (Walmart is accused of…
Uber's Labor-Free Fantasy Won't Last Forever
Uber is now worth more money than General Motors. Will the hundreds of thousands of Americans who drive for Uber ever be able to earn a living wage?
Huffington Post Staff Formally Asks to Unionize
For the past six months, digital media companies (including us) have been unionizing in earnest. Now, the media union movement has landed another big one.
Last week, IKEA workers in Stoughton, Massachusetts asked the company to recognize their request to unionize. Today, those workers went out on strike. IKEA still has not responded to their request, for some reason.
Two workers in the U.S. Capitol and Senate cafeteria say they’ve been “relentlessly harassed and intimidated by our bosses” for trying to organize a union. Perhaps their customers could help them out?
Despite a thick serving of anti-union emails, employees at reality TV production company Leftfield Entertainment have voted to unionize by a 2-1 margin. Reality TV workers can use all the help they can get.