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VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. (AP) - Crowd control at all Walmart stores in New York appeared to be smooth Friday, a year after a security guard was crushed to death by a stampede of shoppers. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said her...

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...Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was entitled to close a store in Quebec in 2005, seven months after workers voted to become the first Walmart store in North America to unionize. The highest court in Canada ruled in a 6-3 margin that the...

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...shut their store. So do most Canadians. So does Wal-Mart," said UFCW Canada President Wayne Hanley. "We still believe the Jonquiere Walmart was closed because workers exercised their constitutional rights." Justice Rosalie Abella, writing...

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...Jersey Best Buy) Unlike years past when shoppers queued up the night before in order to be the first one in the store, Wal-Mart said it would offer extended hours at many of its non-24 hour locations this year to accommodate...

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...to crush union Shoppers come and go from a Wal-Mart in Jonquiere, near Chicoutimi Que., in 2004 after it became the first Wal-Mart in Canada to vote to become unionized. Wal-Mart shut the store in 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE...

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...goods at low prices, and workers suffer the financial burden," China Labor Watch, a New York-based rights group, said. Wal-Mart said it launched an investigation into the five factories referenced in the report after learning of the...

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