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According to country star Garth
Brooks, “it’s great to work for Wal-Mart.” But if he found out how
Wal-Mart treats its workers, he’d discover he’s got “Friends
with Low Wages.” |
July 9, 2008
Gift for Wal-Mart: The National Labor Relations Board just
found Wal-Mart guilty
of illegally firing a union supporter, bribing employees, and discriminatorily
refusing to protect union supporters from the harassment of their anti-union coworker,
all in an effort to prevent workers from forming a union at its Kingman, AZ, store.
How is this decision a gift to Wal-Mart? Because it was issued eight years after the organizing
effort began; eight years after it could have had any impact on the union effort.
Thus Wal-Mart breaks the law, successfully squashes the union effort, benefits from the slow
case-handling procedures at the NLRB, and merely has to pony up a
little back pay and interest to the employee it fired. It's no wonder
this country's largest private employer has managed to
stay entirely union-free.
Wal-Mart Issues on Wages, Health Care, Supply Chain, Discrimination, among others.
March 27, 2008 Wal-Mart Sues Disabled Mom (video)
April 2007: What if John Edwards Worked at Wal-Mart?
April 2007: Price hikes on health care at Wal-Mart
March 28, 2007 Wal-Mart Chief Writes Off New York
July 27, 2006: Chicago Workers Win Against Wal-Mart
Jun
1, 2006 Big Box Stores Eliminate Jobs, Create Poverty
Apr
27, 2006: Thousands Say Wal-Mart Health Care Claims are a Sham
March 7, 2006: Wal-Mart Feeds Bloggers to Spread Praise in Public Relations Campaign
How
COSTCO Became the Anti-Wal-Mart
The
Wal-Mart You Don't Know (Not
the Vlasic Pickles for $2.97)
To survive in the face of its pricing demands,
makers of everything from bras
to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees
and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.
The
Real Cost of Wal-Mart's Low Prices
Get
the Facts on Wal-Mart Before You Spend Money There !
Paying
the Price of Wal-Mart
Wal-Martization
of Wages
America
Pays / Wal-Mart Saves
Mar
17, 2005: In Arkansas, Wal-Mart #1 in Children of Employees on Publicly-Funded
State Health Care Rolls