The National Labor Relations Board today charged that Walmart "illegally fired, disciplined or threatened more than 60 employees in 14 states" who were participating in strikes, protests, and other legal activities. I dunno, that seems out of character.

Occupy Wall Street has posted a set of internal Walmart documents used for training managers in the retailer's staunchly anti-union ways. Let's peek!

Approximately 1.3 million unemployed Americans lost their jobless benefits Saturday as the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program expired. "I don't know what we're going to do," said unemployed case manager Richard Mattos, 59, of Salem, Ore. "We could end up homeless because of this."

Amazon is the future of retail in America. Like its biggest competitors, it is not unionized. But that could change soon.

Feeling the full brunt of a public relations nightmare, Pizza Hut has offered manager Tony Rohr his job back, after he quit over a disagreement over whether his employees should work on Thanksgiving.

Labor organizers say that they plan to hold 1,500 protests nationwide against Wal-Mart on Black Friday.

In the past week, both a senior editor at Fortune magazine and the liberal think tank Demos have made similar proposals for how Walmart could greatly increase worker wages without harming its business prospects. What is this mysterious financial magic?

Here is a short video showing a meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission, a government agency. The strange thing is, only English speakers without accents are allowed to speak.

In downtown Los Angeles last night, 54 people were arrested while protesting Wal-Mart's business practices. They're asking for salaries of $25K per year for each full time Wal-Mart employee.

In a fantastic piece at The Atlantic, Derek Thompson uses U.S. Bureau of Labor data to highlight how the labor market is more stratified by race than you might imagine. According to the BLS, whites, on average, earn higher wages and face lower unemployment, while blacks and Latinos cluster in lower-paying jobs.

Some Wal-Mart workers in Southern California walked off the job this morning to protest working conditions and wages. Nationwide Black Friday protests are already being planned.

Half of the workers in the United States made less than $27,519 last year. That median wage is the lowest it's been since 1998. The story is different for earners at the top, notes Al Jazeera America: "Since 2000, corporate pretax profits, adjusted for inflation, have more than doubled, reaching record levels."

When a union attempts to organize a workplace, the management inevitably tries to talk workers out of it. Usually, that happens out of the public eye. But at one workplace, an audio recorder was running.

Today, in a Times piece called "Slaves of the Internet, Unite!," writer Tim Kreider wonders why editors feel comfortable asking writers to perform for free. In March, Gawker's Cord Jefferson considered the same issue, finding that writing "is an ambition that... is rigged to favor people who start off with money."

The ongoing movement to raise the wages of fast food workers got a boost today from two new reports that attempt to quantify just how much those low wages cost society as a whole. It's a lot.

For almost a year now, a national labor movement has been pushing for higher wages for America's fast food workers. Last week in Chicago, a longtime McDonald's worker interrupted a speech by McDonald's USA president Jeff Stratton, asking "Do you think it's fair that I have to be living on a poverty wage?"

A study found that universities with unionized graduate students not only paid their graduate students more, but "on various measures of student-faculty relations, the survey found either no difference or (in some cases) better relations at unionized campuses."

Margaret Mary Vojtko was a longtime adjunct professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Earlier this month, she died penniless. She may have an even greater effect in death than in life.

As of 2011, the average CEO was paid 230 times the salary of an average worker at his company. Today, the SEC proposed a rule to require companies to report that ratio every year. What should it be? A modest proposal: 100-1.

The Obama administration has approved new rules that will extend minimum wage and overtime pay to home health care workers in 2015. Home care workers have been exempt from federal wage laws since 1974 when “they were placed in the same category as neighborhood baby sitters.”