NEA Gets Failing Grade for Wal-Mart Boycott
August 16, 2005
According to Michael Reitz, director of the Labor Policy Center for the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, the National Education Association’s (NEA) decision to participate in a boycott against Wal-Mart does nothing to improve education in this country and it’s unlikely to do anything for the union movement or its attempts to organize the world’s largest retailer.
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