Like several successful campaigns before it, Step Up organizes workers to improve their jobs, but stops short of calling for a union. The approach, “premajority unionism,” is a natural fit for places like the South, with histories of public hostility to unions.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
The Shifting Anti-Monopoly Landscape
Fights over data centers and music venues show that resisting corporate power will have to go local in the age of Trump.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Dollar General Overcharges ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Customers, Lawsuit Alleges
The prices paid at the register do not match the price tags, according to a class action lawsuit working through the courts.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Discount Health
Dollar General is part of a trend of major retailers trying to move into medical care. Cut-rate treatment is the last thing needed in the vulnerable populations dollar stores serve.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Discount America
The new business model is to try to capture everyone who has fallen out of the middle class.
Posted inWorking in America
Dollar Store Workers Organizing for Justice
Poor working conditions, low pay, and risk to personal safety characterize life at the more than 35,000 dollar stores in the U.S.
