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Supreme Court Finds In Favor of Workers

(I know, we're surprised as well.)

It is 'old wine in a new bottle' at its finest. "Reclassification" is among the newest euphemisms that enable employers to cut the hours, wages, and benefits of their employees--but IBM workers are fighting back.

Today (April 29th) a protest is being waged at an IBM annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., by members and supporters of the Alliance@IBM Communications Workers of America.

Securing the Living Wage been an elusive quest for many local and state governments--but it is far from impossible.

Cutting Costs, Destroying Lives: The Circuit City’s of Yesterday Live On

--This March will mark the one-year anniversary of Circuit City’s laying off of 3,400 employees nationwide. What is especially disturbing about this ‘cost-cutting’ crusade—besides its scale--was its explicit targeting of higher-paid employees. And after being told literally on the day of in some cases, workers were told that they could re-apply for open positions after a ten-week “cooling off” period. The audacity of this measure nearly escapes words: experienced workers could re-apply—after ‘waiting’ two and half months--for lousier positions, and work lousier hours for lousier pay? The fact that such a measure was taken—and that it was so sparsely covered in the media—is highly indicative of the often-demoralized and neglected state of retail workers today.

The computer and electronics retail giant, CompUSA, is in the process of liquidating nearly all of its stores, leaving thousands of workers without a job.