it has been a good couple weeks for some employees. t.j. maxx and walmart both plan on boosting pay. that comes on the heals of walmart's major announcement that they will plan to pay their u.s. employees at least $10 an hour by next year. that is almost $3 above the federal minimum wage that remains stuck at $7.25. president obama ran on raising that wage but despite hitss repeated calls to raise it, but some companies are doing it on their own. walmart has staged massive black friday strikes three years in a row for better hours, pay, and