Wal-Mart wouldn’t allow job fair information in store

A Wal-Mart employee talks to a Juneau Job Center staffer during a Jan. 29 job fair. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
About a minute’s walk from Wal-Mart, a small room at Gruening Park has been transformed intoa mini job fair. Up to 168 Juneau Wal-Mart employees could lose their jobs this week, so the state organized the Jan. 29 job fair to help.
“We’ve got TSA, Fred Meyer, Verizon, AT&T, Home Depot, and IGA,” said Ray Brogdon, an employee at the state&rsquo