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  • Hold Wal-Mart accountable

    Hold Wal-Mart accountable

    October 31, 2003

    Opinion All across the country Wal-Mart is cashing in on family tragedies. After Doug Sims, a Wal-Mart employee in Plainview, Texas, died of a heart attack in 1998, his wife, Jane, found out exactly what Wal-Mart...

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  • History-makers reflect on Salt of the Earth: Even more relevant now

    History-makers reflect on Salt of the Earth: Even more relevant now

    October 31, 2003

    Anita and Lorenzo Torrez were a young married couple thrown into the midst of the Empire Zinc strike in Hanover, N.M., in 1950. They were radicalized in the course of the strike and became members of...

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  • Steelworkers support college athletes

    Steelworkers support college athletes

    October 31, 2003

    “Professional athletes had to fight for the rights we now have. We’ll stand by the collegiate athletes in their struggle for justice until they win,” Daylon McCutcheon, defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, told a recent...

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  • Retirees step up fight for health care, pensions

    Retirees step up fight for health care, pensions

    October 31, 2003

    If the recent conferences of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) and the Alliance of Retired Americans (ARA) are any indication, senior militancy is definitely on the rise. Both of these union-based organizations, meeting back-to-back...

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  • Free trade not what it seems

    Free trade not what it seems

    October 31, 2003

    If you are a Kmart shopper or a rancher in Montana; a mom and dad wondering about what the kids will do once they finish school; or a retiree, worried about pension and health care, the...

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