...counter Wal-Mart's success. "This is a very, very tough company -- it's a very tough nut," said AFL-CIO organizing director Stewart Acuff, speaking from a Wal-Mart store in Alexandria, Va. The protesters claim the giant chain's...

...1999 membership statistics, but the AFL-CIO is not sure precisely how many have been counted. Kirk Adams, organizing director at the AFL-CIO, estimated that because of the lag between organizing and gaining a first contract the labor...