Walmart's historic first strike: American workers are on the move | Amy Goodman

It's a huge symbolic moment as grassroots labor activists take on America's largest, resolutely anti-union private employer The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people, and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions. This is happening while corporate coffers are brimming with historically high levels of cash on hand, in both the "too big to fail" banks and in non-financial corporations. Despite unemployment level...