Gulf Shores    A front page story in the Wall Street Journal trumpeted the fact that Wal-Mart has been training supervisors throughout the stores where they manage more than 1-million workers as the country’s largest private sector employer in their anti-union message now more finely calibrated not to the generalized fear of unions but to the …

Los Angeles        After a meeting in Modesto in the morning, we had lunch and an update with our Merced team.   The progress in bottling up the Wal-Mart distribution center has been outstanding.  The Environmental Impact Review (EIR) has been delayed again until September as the clock continues to run.  The opposition to the distribution …

Vallejo        Rick Smith of WARN and I putting a lot of miles on a rental with $4.45 per gallon gas all over Central Valley and Southern California over coming days on the Wal-Mart trail.  We are looking and talking to a lot of people about some very specific issues, but none are more fundamental …