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Employees at a Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Van Buren went on strike for a week last month, claiming the business was mishandling their severance and endangering their health and safety — and is now \“throwing the heroes away\” after lauding their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the protestors gathered in the rain outside of New Cabell Hall and marched through the inclement weather to Madison Hall, they chanted “cut the check,” among other union and protest chants.
The approach is familiar by now. Writers produce stories on the explosive growth of northwest Arkansas and feel the need to say something along these lines: "There must be something wrong, though, since part of it is being funded by the evil Walton family."
April 29, 202112:47 pm Olivia Paschal reports today for Facing South on criticism of the state’s first school voucher program, the “Succeed Scholarship,” which now provides up to $7,000 a year to send 479 students, many with learning disabilities, to private schools. The program has grown 20 fold from its beginning and was cited repeatedly during the recent legislative session as a success and a reason for the expansion of school vouchers to another 250 children in a $2 million program that was passed over public school opposition in the final days of the session. Advertisement Writes P...
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