Women Climbing Grocery Biz Ladder Slowly

August 4, 2008

Women have come a long way and still have a long way to go when it comes to management positions in the grocery industry. According to the Department of Labor, fewer than 10 percent of grocery industry executives are women and only 33 percent of store managers are female.

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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.