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...Smithfield, the trouble began when the company voluntarily entered into a program with the Immigration Customs and Enforcement agency to review Social Security numbers of workers, after immigration agents raided a plant in Virginia and found several undocumented workers. About 500 to 600 workers at the Tar Heel plant were found to have Social Security numbers that could not be verified, and Smithfield fired the workers. The workers argued that the company did not give them enough time to resolve their Social Security problems. (Not every person with Social Security problems was illegal; some numbers may not have matched because...
Julio Vargas sits quietly in a small gray house in Red Springs, North Carolina, making notes in his native Spanish before another day of working to organize Smithfield Foods meatpacking workers. Vargas, originally from Mexico, was fired from his sanitation contractor job for Smithfield, in nearby Tar Heel, N.C., in 2003 after protesting working conditions. Now, an organizer for the United Food Commercial Workers Union, he is part of a growing nationwide effort to organize what was once considered a no-win labor population: Latino immigrant workers...
...Apple, the reigning NCAA National Champion men’s team went 5-0, defeating NYU 20-7, Rutgers 17-10, UNC 21-6, and Penn State 14-13. The women’s team routed the Violets 24-3, the Scarlet Knights 23-4, and the Tar Heels 22-5, before falling to the Nittany Lions...
Sure, the attention was negative when Snow dismissed Congressman Mark Foley's creepy messages to former pages as "naughty e-mails." There was the time Snow likened stem-cell research to murder. He invoked the unfortunate cliché "tar baby" early on, but just as interesting as his missteps are his striking successes. He said Bob Woodward's book, critical of the Bush Administration's handling of Iraq after the invasion, was "like cotton candy--it kind of melts on contact." After John Kerry was caught in a gaffe that appeared to demean the armed forces, Snow thundered, "This...
...Attack in Illinois The Incumbent governor and his Republican challenger compete to tar each other with the sins of the state's disgraced former chief executive