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Hey, Where did Wal-Mart come from?

January 16, 2004 By Wadi’h Halabi

Wal-Mart is practically synonymous with “cheaper labor.” Its U.S. clerks averaged $13,861 a year in 2001, some $800 below the miserable federal poverty line for a three-person household. Its subcontractors are infamous for their mistreatment of...

This Week In Labor

January 16, 2004

Anti-immigrant ads pollute airwaves It’s fertile conditions when economic times are bad to have someone to blame besides your rotten employer, said Iowa AFL-CIO president Mark Smith about anti-immigrant political ads that have been appearing on...

International notes

January 16, 2004

Italy: Transit workers strike over pensions Air traffic controllers held a one day strike Jan. 8, and transit workers followed on Jan. 9, in a sharpening dispute with the government of President Silvio Berlusconi over proposed...

SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS Behind the handshakes lies resistance

January 16, 2004

George W. Bush’s handlers tried to prepare a soft-landing for him during his Jan. 12-13 trip to Monterrey, Mexico, but they failed.

Corporations blamed for mad cow disease

January 16, 2004

SEATTLE – By now, pretty much everyone in the United States has heard of the Holstein from Mabton, Wash., found to be infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as “mad cow disease.” What people...