Inspired by the civil rights era freedom rides a group of activists have caravanned to Bentonville Arkansas for this Friday’s Walmart shareholders’ meeting. The activists include so-called “ strikers” –Walmart employees who have left their jobs to make the trip. The union- backed labor group OUR Walmart organized the caravans to call attention to what it claims is the retail giant’s history of retaliation against activist workers. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with one of the Walmart “ strikers”- Aubretia Edick. She has worked for Walmart for 13 years, first in a store in Hudson, New York, and now in Chicopee Massachusetts
The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.