Greater Numbers and Lower Rings Mark Holiday Open

November 26, 2007

The good news is more consumers than expected were out shopping to open the holiday shopping season. The bad news is the average shopper spent 3.5 percent less than during the same period last year. The net, according to the National Retail Federation, was a 4.8 percent increase in year-over-year sales.

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Waffle House Workers Strike for Fair Pay and Better Working Conditions

Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.