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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Wal-Mart</title>
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		<title>Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk’d Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2012/01/24/emblematic-of-1-percenters-cooper-tire-punkd-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corporations are punking Americans. Corporate executives, the 1 percenters, slash workers’ pay, then give themselves big bonuses. CEOs tell mayors and governors their businesses are in such dire shape they may close or move offshore. Government officials dutifully shovel truckloads of taxpayer cash into CEO hands, then the CEOs grant themselves more perks.  The television show Punk’d, in which actor Ashton Kutcher humiliates famous people, took a five-year hiatus. The 1 percenters gave workers and taxpayers no such break. Punking the 99 percent for profit has only escalated.]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Backs Wal-Mart in Pay Discrimination Case</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/21/supreme-court-backs-wal-mart-in-pay-discrimination-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled 5-4 that as many as 1.6 million women who are current or former Wal-Mart employees cannot sue Wal-Mart for pay discrimination in a class-action suit. A lower court had ruled that the women could join together in a class action. But the court did not rule on the women’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Ohio Democrats Sell Out Workers Again?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/18/will-ohio-democrats-sell-out-workers-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Russo Co-Director, Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University The State of Ohio provides several forms of public assistance, including Medicaid, food stamps, and cash assistance through the Ohio Works First Program.  Medicaid is the largest line item in the Ohio budget. Through these direct supports to low-wage workers, the state also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on Miley Cyrus, Shame on Wal-Mart, Shame on China</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/24/shame-on-miley-cyrus-shame-on-wal-mart-shame-on-china/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/24/shame-on-miley-cyrus-shame-on-wal-mart-shame-on-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Steven Capozzola Media Director, Alliance for American Manufacturing When will we learn that outsourcing to China proves hazardous to our health? The Miley Cyrus line of bracelets and necklaces contain toxic levels of cadmium.  As the Associated Press and USA Today are reporting, the jewelry (which was made in China) is dangerous to children&#8217;s health.  Cadmium is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Manufacturing Business Expert Richard McCormack</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/26/qa-with-manufacturing-business-expert-richard-mccormack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Richard McCormack     Q&#38;A       Leo W. Gerard: Richard, when you appeared recently at Youngstown State University as a guest of the Center for Working-Class Lecture Series, you talked about how essential manufacturing is to the U.S. economy and how politicians seem clueless about that. In fact, you said, “Politicians don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Rights Are Civil Rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/07/24/workers-rights-are-civil-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar&#8217;s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum wage hike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle Class</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/26/us-chamber-of-commerce-betting-against-the-american-middle-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/05/26/us-chamber-of-commerce-betting-against-the-american-middle-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Randel K. Johnson, vice president of that esteemed group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently revealed a corporate-squelched truth in a slip of the tongue.   During a debate on May 15 with Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO about the Employee Free Choice Act, Johnson admitted &#8211; finally &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Matters: Why Buy America</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/19/union-matters-why-buy-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/03/19/union-matters-why-buy-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUESTION: Polls show strong support for &#8220;Buy American&#8221; legislation &#8211; which requires that government entities using tax-dollar supported stimulus grants buy domestically-produced products such as steel whenever possible. From your conversations with friends and neighbors, do you think most people really understand why it is so crucial to the American economy right now?   Yes we can Buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart&#8217;s failure to protect its workers: An unfortunate symbol</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/04/wal-mart%e2%80%99s-failure-to-protect-its-workers-an-unfortunate-symbol/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/04/wal-mart%e2%80%99s-failure-to-protect-its-workers-an-unfortunate-symbol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Nassar Executive Director Wal-Mart Watch Sometimes symbols appear unexpectedly. Jdimytai Damour, a temporary Wal-Mart worker, became a symbol to millions of low-wage workers last Friday when he died a needless death because Wal-Mart failed to take the necessary precautions to protect him. He became a symbol of those workers quietly yielding to unsafe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle class needs right to bargain, secure contracts &#8212; like CEOs have</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/08/08/america%e2%80%99s-middle-class-needs-right-to-bargain-secure-contracts-like-ceos-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Kosher abuse In May, when immigration officials raided the kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and hauled out 389 undocumented workers, the news was all about immigration violations, but now the focus is on the employer, Agriprocessors Inc. That’s because it turns out that while purportedly giving ritual consideration [...]]]></description>
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