Word: waging
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GORDON SMITH, Republican Senator from Oregon, on the Democrats' defeating a G.O.P.-crafted bill that tied a minimum-wage increase for the working class--a favorite issue with the Dems--with a federal estate-tax decrease for the wealthy, a cause pushed by Republicans...
...rancorous as the debate over gay marriage has become, gay executives are increasingly being welcomed in corporate America, which is to say that they are as hassled as all the other wage slaves. According to State of the Workplace 2006, a new study by the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, a majority of FORTUNE 500 companies--254--now offer health benefits to domestic partners...
...Mart rally yesterday," Lieberman's campaign spokesperson, Marion Steinfels, said Thursday. At the rally, which Lieberman also attended, Lamont said, "This is about waking up Wal-Mart and this is also about waking up corporate America." It was organized by WakeUpWalMart.com, a union-backed group trying to highlight wage and benefits complaints against the company...
...city showdown with Chicago?s ?big box ordinance,? Target announced today that it was scrapping plans to build a store on the city?s North Side. Big-box ordinances, a relative of living-wage laws, require large retailers like Target, Home Depot and Wal-Mart to pay a minimum wage closer to $10 an hour versus the Federal minimum of $5.15 and in some cases offer health coverage. The ordinances have become popular in big cities, a relatively unexploited market so far for big-box retailers. But are the ordinances ultimately hurting the very city residents they allege to protect...
...open 50 stores in blighted, high-crime areas. Exploitation or economic expansion? That?s the wedge Wal-Mart has driven between residents of these neighborhoods. Labor and community activists have kept Wal-Mart out of some neighborhoods, but minority real estate developers - and the lure of jobs, whatever the wage - have prevailed in others. But Wal-Mart?s wedge strategy may be hard to maintain...