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Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
Andy Stern
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Andy Stern
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 22
Activist
Trade Unionist
West Orange
New Jersey
Andrew L. Stern
Andrew Stern
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