On Thursday, hundreds of McDonald’s restaurants across the United States, as well as in many foreign locations, will be the sight of picketers and protesters. Employees at the world’s largest fast food chain are demanding a minimum wage of $15 per hour as well as the company recognizing their right to form a union. …
On Wednesday morning at 6AM, an estimated 40,000 Verizon Wireless employees on the East Coast went out on strike. Negotiations between the employees and the company have broken down and has initiated one of the largest labor strikes in American history. The 40,000 Verizon workers are represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and …
People who smoke, regardless of gender, are finding it more difficult to locate a job that those who don’t smoke. In addition, smokers tend to make more money than their non-smoking counterparts. That’s been the findings of some recent research just published in the Journal of the American Medical Society. The research was conducted …
The West African Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, has been launching its reign of terror for many years in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria and their violence and their sociopathic viciousness knows no boundaries at all. They are said to be in league with the Islamic State but the group seems only concerned …
On Sunday night, a WalMart loss prevention security officer in Lilburn, Georgia, was shot and killed while in pursuit of and armed shoplifter. Jaseramie Ferguson, 25, a WalMart loss prevention officer had been unarmed, along with another employee, when they tried to apprehend a suspected shoplifter who was trying to flee the store with …