OK kids, make yourselves a couple of Fluffernutter sandwiches and a big glass of Ovaltine (I make mine with heavy cream to get the fat content just right, 2% milk being the work of Satan!) and gather around the Television er, um computer (that just doesn’t seem right) for this months edition of Clap ...

8 days ago · A View From the Bridge at ... · clapso.wordpress.com by ClapSo 6 references

At last, a sensible and nuanced programme on the challenges of ethical trade in the garment industry. Radio 4’s ‘ In Business‘ programme ‘On the rack’ (broadcast on 12 th June, repeated 15 th June) is worth a second hearing – a 30-minute whistle-stop tour setting out just how real the problems are, ...

22 days ago · Impactt Ltd · impacttlimited.com by MartinButtle 2 references

Great article by Rebecca Hughes for SeaCoastOnline.com - Witnessing racism firsthand in York Recently, I graduated college, came back to York for my final summer at home, and quickly began the search for a summer job. After filling out several applications, I went to a local restaurant. Although the ...

38 days ago · Hello, Negro · hellonegro.com by sista 37 references

As things get economically worse and worse for most of us. More and more of us will have to seek help. The economy as run by the dirty dems and filthy repubs has been failing us for decades. A growing number of us are finally seeing how bad things are. Since the early 1980’s, the [...]

51 days ago · A View From the Bridge at ... · clapso.wordpress.com by ClapSo 6 references

Yup, the dirty dems and filthy repubs have been running our country into the ground for decades. There is no real difference in their policies. GO AHEAD SUCKERS! GO AHEAD AND VOTE FOR EM AGAIN! This is what you’ll continue to get: —clip— Burdened by the Weight of Inflation Standards of Living Are Ch ...

52 days ago · A View From the Bridge at ... · clapso.wordpress.com by ClapSo 6 references

Last week a Florida journalist busted Burger King VP Stephen Grover for using his tween-aged daughter's email account to slam a farm workers group—but that wasn't the only weird email event related to this story. Now Burger King is taking steps to officially distance itself from Grover's actions and ...

61 days ago · Consumerist · consumerist.com by Chris Walters 900 references

The next time Burger King VP Stephen Grover goes online to spread FUD about labor advocates, he should probably leave his daughter out of it. For one thing, she's a horrible accomplice and will spill her guts to the first reporter who calls. For another thing, this forthrightness clearly makes her t ...

68 days ago · Consumerist · consumerist.com by Chris Walters 6162 references

Yeah, we ALL need a raise don’t we? Here’s a little essay I wrote almost a decade ago. We’re all still waiting for that raise, while the pig corpoRATeers get EVER RICHER… Praying at the Altar of Greed and Want or WHY You Should tell the High Priests to Pay Their Employees MORE, it’s the Right [...]

68 days ago · A View From the Bridge at ... · clapso.wordpress.com by ClapSo 6 references

Livable Wages: The Heart of San Diego's Vision for New Development Good, middle-class jobs paying livable wages should be the heart of San Diego's plan for future development. Yet Mayor Jerry Sanders has removed the vision of livable wages from a proposed update of the General Plan, our city's guide ...

142 days ago · San Diego Mega Progressive ... · sdmegacoalition.blogspot.com by Tommie Watson 4 references

Bienestar International manufactures union-made footwear & casual clothing under the brand name No Sweat™. Our gear is produced by independent trade union members in the US, Canada, and the developing world. We believe that the only viable response to globalization is a global labor movement. No Swe ...

150 days ago · : · angelahayden.com by Angela Hayden ART GODDESS 3 references