In the past several weeks, dailykos readers have been kept current on the day-to-day realities in the world of Big Box stores.Lightbulb has been reporting almost daily on the nuts and bolts of his life as an exploited non-unionized laborer in an un-named retail monolith, while Laura Clausen of the AFL-CIO’s Working America has reported on events affecting the labor movement, detailing how the massively big-box Walmart is so vigilant to stop unionization in its stores that it trains its supervisors to squelch even employee baby-showers.
Meanwhile, bobswern has kept us all current on the latest machinations of the big banks, with his discussions of the many excellent analyses from www.nakedcapitalism, for example, see here.