Labor Facts

The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.

A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $60,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is over $29 per hour, and the company provides benefits to the vast majority of its employees.

Walmart paid $65 million because it refused to let its California cashiers sit down while working.

25,000 grocery workers walked off the job to save the CEO their board had just fired. No union. No pay. No budging. Market Basket's board sacked Arthur T. Demoulas for paying workers too well. 71 stores emptied. Sales crashed 95% in six weeks. Customers drove past Market Basket to shop at competitors. The board folded and Arthur T. bought the company back for $1.5 billion.