Wal-Mart fight heats up in California
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While cities challenge expansion plans, the retail giant touts benefits.
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A last-ditch $3 million ad campaign for Proposition 72 features Wal-Mart as a health-insurance miser. The ads even led Wal-Mart to contribute to the &quot;no&quot; campaign &quot;to defend (its) honor.
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Retail giant plans to build up to 250 supercenters in &#39;05 despite a rising tide of community opposition. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, plans to open more so-called supercenters next year
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After years of dogging Wal-Mart Stores Inc., organized labour has begun to make some surprising inroads at the planet&#39;s largest retailer.
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Business & money: Wal-Mart admits increasing unpopularity as unions organise huge protests outside glitz-fest.
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Employees of retail giant Wal-Mart   have set up their second trade union in China, pushing  toward the Chinese labor federation's goal of unionizing every  Wal-Mart store in the country.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  is actively  working to open its first small-scale grocery stores in  Arizona, according to city planning officials, as the world's  largest retailer looks to fend off competition from British  supermarket rival Tesco .
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Lawyers leading a record-setting sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores said on Tuesday they filed a lawsuit against Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , claiming the company kept women out of top ...
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A proposal to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Laveen, the area&#39;s first south of the Rio Salado, has drawn the ire of labor groups, but local leaders call the project needed and the cornerstone to good growth in the area.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, on Thursday launched a national advertising  campaign to burnish an image that has been tarnished by claims  about its hiring practices, stance toward labor unions and  actions against smaller competitors.
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California has emerged as a key  battleground state on the issue of pension overhaul, with Gov.  Arnold Schwarzenegger pushing private accounts for state  employees and lower government contributions to public pension  plans that provide defined benefits.
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Californiaâs major racetracks Thursday opened a new front in their war on the Indian monopoly of Las Vegas-style gambling, filing a lawsuit to overturn the governorâs new gaming deals with five tribes.
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California Gov. Arnold  Schwarzenegger as expected vetoed bills on Saturday that would  have raised the state's hourly minimum wage and forced  retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to pay for economic impact  reports on planned superstores.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. A Mississippi man is suing Wal-Mart, claiming the world&#39;s largest retailer discriminates against blacks from seeking truck-driving jobs in 12 Southern states, including Virginia.
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Police are investigating two small  fires at a southern California branch of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  that led to 500 people being evacuated from the smoke-filled  store on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, and its chief executive, Lee Scott, went on the offensive Thursday against critics of its employment policies and the impact its stores have on communities where they are located.
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SACRAMENTO -- Escalating their battle with Wal-Mart, proponents of Proposition 72 on Friday accused the nation&#39;s largest retailer of misleading and attempting to coerce its 60,000 California employees by sending an e-mail that suggests they will lose