Here's the first round of news

The Boston Globe reports that labor and other groups have called for a boycott of Wal-Mart school supplies. It's also been reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, LA Times, Houston Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, Salt Lake City Tribune, and uhhh, 51 other news outlets...

The Wall Street Journal has this article about Republican governors in Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky eliminating collective bargaining rights for public employees.

MarketWatch has this news on the Northwest Airlines mechanics' negotiations and possible strike. In other labor news in the airline industry, The Seattle Times reports that British Airways flights are grounded because British Airways' employees have stopped work in sympathy with employees fired from the carrier's caterer, owned by a TX company. . . .