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Walkouts, Protests Hit Walmart Nationwide on Biggest Shopping Day of the Year
The importance of the protest is not only in the arguably modest number of protesters, but also in the opponent.
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Reflecting on My Visits to Families in Exhausted Iraq
‘We are helpless and hopeless, but we are adapting,’ a doctor told a volunteer traveling in Baghdad this month.
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Walmart Nervous as Black Friday Strike Nears
Plans for Black Friday walkouts at Walmart stores have spread dramatically, in what has been dubbed the first ‘viral strike.’
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University Governance Doesn’t Represent the People
Despite Pennsylvania's proud history of labor unions, there is no labor representative on the governing boards of its two largest universities.
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Experts Say Intrusive Security at Public Schools Reproduces Social Inequality
Extreme security measures in Detroit public schools leave students feeling more like criminals than victims in need of protection.
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Walmart Workers: Workload, Retaliation Increase in Illinois Warehouse as Black Friday Looms
More employees are fired amid union organizing activities.
Walmart Organizing Comes of Age: An Interview With UFCW Organizing Director Pat O’Neill
United Food and Commercial Workers' Pat O'Neill talks about the difficulty of organizing retail and the new tactics that have been developed, shoppers' support and Wal-Mart workers' extraordinary courage …
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Petraeus, Supporter of Military’s “Spiritual Fitness” Program, Should Have Been Fired Years Ago
Ironically enough, Petraeus was a vocal advocate of military
The Fall of the American Empire (Writ Small): History, Farce, and David Petraeus
Even before Paula Broadwell came onto the scene, scads of columnists, pundits, reporters, and politicians were in bed with David Patraeus.
The Death of Twinkie
Todayu2019s news about the demise of Twinkie and other Hostess snacks is a complicated story of big business versus labor.