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...brown-uniformed drivers are almost part of the American family. People readily sympathized with the strikers, who charged that UPS was greedy in paying ever growing numbers of part-timers less than full-time employees. On the other hand, labor suffered a setback this month when a group of Wal-Mart stores workers in Wisconsin rejected the United Steelworkers of America...
Might there be more victims? No illnesses from Hudson products have yet appeared outside Colorado, but the company's patties sell nationwide. Among those who pulled Hudson from freezers and griddles were Wal-Mart, Safeway, Burger King and Boston Market; last Friday 700 Burger Kings had to offer BLTs and ham-and-cheese sandwiches instead of Whoppers...
...state of the local job market captures all the contradictions of the current boom. For every employer complaining that he can't find workers, there's another worried that he can't keep them. Local schools, employers complain, aren't turning out competitive graduates. Wal-Mart's Orem is 32 workers short of the 289 he needs because, he says, he can't find people willing to work hard enough. "It's a tough economy for us, because there are more jobs than good people," says Jeff Streitenberger, a partner in Personnel Solutions, the largest employment agency in Chillicothe...
They're buying better cuts of meat, says the butcher, but driving an extra 100 miles to get a better car deal; saving money on toilet paper at Wal-Mart--"I never did that in the '80s," says a local businessman--so they have extra to spend on a better breed of golf club. The deli owner was confident enough to start her own business, but is worried enough that she doesn't yet dare raise the price of a liverwurst above $3.50. The local bankers see people with as much as $70,000 in charge-card debt, which could...
...mood in town (pop. 22,176) holds as much superstition as celebration. Stuart Orem manages the 142,000-sq.-ft. Wal-Mart on the city's vast, booming commercial strip, built 18 months ago on what was once a lovely cornfield. His office is lined with computers that every day spit out new evidence about a windfall he doesn't quite believe in. "I don't think it's hit this area yet," he says of the economic boom, one day after his sales of patio furniture jumped 100% over the same day last year. The next morning, Charles...