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Hamilton Nolan · 01/22/16 09:15AM

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.

Today They Try to Break the Public Unions

Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/16 09:09AM

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could do more to damage public employee unions than anything the Republican party has done in decades.

Walmart Desperate to Keep Further Documents Revealing Employee Surveillance Tactics From Being Made Public

Brendan O'Connor · 12/14/15 08:30PM

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 illegally firing labor activists.) Now, Walmart alleges, labor group OUR Walmart “intentionally disclosed documents marked and designated confidential.” The documents, according to Walmart, were protected by judicial order.

Walmart's Absurd, Paranoid Corporate Spying Operation

Hamilton Nolan · 11/25/15 09:40AM

It is actually very sad that you may not be shocked to learn that America’s largest corporate employer used expensive private spies to surveil its own employees who had the audacity to ask not to be paid poverty wages.

The Mizzou Blueprint: How to Fight for Higher Education 

Douglas Williams · 11/24/15 12:00PM

The events of the last month at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia have been a sight to behold. From the seeds of student activism led by Black students in an area once known colloquially as Little Dixie, flowers have bloomed on college campuses across the country.

A Wild Idea: Support the Candidate You Agree With 

Hamilton Nolan · 11/06/15 03:20PM

So far, America’s most powerful labor unions are more likely to endorse Hillary Clinton than Bernie Sanders, even though Sanders’ beliefs are more pro-labor than Clinton’s. This is dumb. And fearful.

A Good Christian School's Ruthless Anti-Union Campaign

Hamilton Nolan · 11/03/15 10:53AM

The good thing about class consciousness is that you begin to realize that no matter how long you went to school, your problems are fundamentally the same as all the other people whose bank account balance is as low as yours.