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  • Hey, Where did Wal-Mart come from?

    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...

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  • This Week In Labor

    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...

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  • International notes

    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...

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  • Separation wall protests mount

    Separation wall protests mount

    January 16, 2004

    As cranes lowered segments of a 30-foot-high concrete barrier in the streets of Jerusalem on Jan. 12, walling the city off from the adjoining Arab village of Abu Dis, the outcry against Israel’s so-called “separation wall”...

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  • World Social Forum gathers in India

    World Social Forum gathers in India

    January 16, 2004

    Some 75,000 participants from around the world are pouring into the fourth World Social Forum, in Mumbai, India, Jan. 16-21, preparing for more powerful, united, worldwide struggles to say “no to war,” and “another world is...

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