Oct 2011:  Wal-Mart Reneges and Quietly Removing Health Benefits for Workers

Dec 2010: Supreme Court to Review Class Action Appeal for Women vs Wal-Mart

Sept 2009: Wal-Mart Profit is $25,000 Per Minute
UCFW Advocates Say There Should be Health Benefits

 

Aug 2009: Wal-Mart Pushes Cost of Health Care for Their Workers to US Taxpayers
(video)

Aug 5, 2008:  Wal-Mart Attempt to Kill Employee Choice Backfires

Dec 2008: Wal-Mart Agrees to Potential $640 Million Wage and Hour Violations 

Wal-Mart Issues on Wages, Health Care, Supply Chain, Discrimination, among others.

May 2007:  How Wal-Mart Has Used Public Tax Money
This includes tax breaks, free land, infrastructure assistance, 
low-cost financing and outright grants from state and local governments
 around the country. In addition, taxpayers indirectly subsidize the company 
by paying the healthcare costs of Wal-Mart employees who don’t receive 
coverage on the job and instead turn to public programs such as Medicaid.

April 2007: What if John Edwards Worked at Wal-Mart? (you will understand the issue)

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

Wake Up Wal-Mart 


Click for article: "We said we'll increase the price"--even $3.49 would have helped tremendously--"and they said, 'If you do that, all the other products of yours we buy, we'll stop buying.' It was a clear threat."

 Click:  Retail giant Wal-Mart is setting a standard of low wages and poor benefits that lowers living and working standards for all of us.      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 

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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

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