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Alex barron the regional manager for walmart wrote this week saying quote, we have said that this legislation is arbitrary and discriminatory and discourageds investment in washington. walmart is the largest employer in the country with more than 1.3 million workers and 4,005 stores. the company earned $17 billion in profits last year. and many walmart critics say that means they can and should pay their workers more. but should a city be able to force the company to do so? steven moore senior economics writer of the "wall street journal" editorial board, david madland is the director of the a...

Have said this legislation is ash treasure and discriminatory and it discourages investment in washington. walmart is the large effort employer in the country with more than 1.3 million workers and 4,005 stores. the company earned $17 billion in profits last year. and many walmart critics say that means they can and should pay workers more. but should a city be able to force the company to do so in steven moore senior economics writer of the "wall street journal" editorial board, david madeleine is the director of the american worker project at center for american progress. david, why can't th...

Legislation forces large retailers like walmart to pay a minimum of $12.50 an hour. legislation targets walmart unfairly, it says. alex barron the regional manager for walmart wrote this week saying quote, we have said that this legislation is arbitrary and discriminatory and discourageds investment in washington. walmart is the largest employer in the country with more than 1.3 million workers and 4,005 stores. the company earned $17 billion in profits last year. and many walmart critics say that means they can and should pay their workers more. but should a city be able to force the company ...

Unionization. indiana and michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that already had such laws. great? no, that's terrible says david maitland of the american worker project. the center for american progress. so why am i wrong? >> you're wrong for a couple of reasons. first, you could never be forced to join the union. you can be required to pay union dues to cover the cost of representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make t...

Indiana and michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that already had such laws. great? no, that's terrible says david maitland of the american worker project. the center for american progress. so why am i wrong? >> you're wrong for a couple of reasons. first, you could never be forced to join the union. you can be required to pay union dues to cover the cost of representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle-clas...