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Berry Craig, recording secretary for the Paducah-based Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council and a professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, is a former daily newspaper and Associated Press columnist and currently a member of AFT Local 1360. Craig sends us this follow-up to his Nov. 21 story.
The manager at the Southside Walmart in Paducah, Ky., might have figured he’d quashed the protest at his store. After all, he made James Vetato and three other OUR Walmart picketers leave from near the front door.
The quartet retreated but regrouped at the entrance road to the busy shopping center the Walmart store anchors.
They redeployed under a big blue and white Walmart sign and held up hand-lettered placards reading, “ON STRIKE FOR THE FREEDOM TO SPEAK OUT,” “RESPECT ASSOCIATES DON’T SILENCE ASSOCIATES,” and “WALMART STOP BULLYING ASSOCIATES WHO SPEAK OUT.”
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Your-Turn/Shoppers-Walmart-Strikers-Find-Common-Bonds-in-Paducah
