September 23, 2016
Spoiler Alert: The following post discusses the plot of Superstore season two, episode one. When season one of NBC’s Superstore ended, we were left wondering what would happen to the Cloud 9 store employees’ nascent strike (ICYMI, our recap is here). After corporate directors fire the store’s bumbling, but benevolent… Read More»
Tags: Cloud 9, Just Born, k-mart, NBC, strike, Superstore, Target, Television, unionbusting, Walmart
March 28, 2016
Court rooms. Emergency rooms. Classrooms. Chances are you could name a dozen television series that center around these workplaces. And with 13 million people working in retail around the country, you’d think we’d see lots of depictions of the women and men who stock store shelves, help us find our… Read More»
Tags: Cloud 9, El Super, Ellen Bravo, Family values @ work, National Labor Relations Board, paid family leave, Superstore, unionbusting, Wilma Liebman