I'll give up my Wal-Mart when they pull my cold dead hands from the shopping cart... Wait a minute, am I on the right thread???
aviator_43 said:
No Wal-Mart?!?!?!
You say that like that's a bad thing!
Yeah it is a bad thing..... organized airline guys should have an idea. Wal Mart treats labor like.... well read on......
But before you do...this is information. You decide what to think. Maybe someone has info to counter this......
http://pweb.jps.net/~dcasner/SFSAWalMartPage.html
Walmart Facts:
WalMart employs approximately 720,000 people. Of that number, A MAJORITY of them QUALIFY FOR FOOD STAMPS. Yes folks, you, me, all of us, are providing welfare to a majority of WalMart employees, and in essence to WalMart itself. That means that WalMart is responsible for providing poverty level wages to at least 360,000 workers, and their families...but the number is much larger. And the figure includes not just part-time employees, but all full-time employees, as well.
WalMart also provides NO affordable Health-Care.
For every job that WalMart creates in a community it displaces from 2 to 5 existing jobs, many that formerly provided benefits.
WalMart employs approximately 100,000 workers in other countries to manufacture goods sold in WalMart stores. The majority of those jobs qualify for sweatshop status. Much of it is forced labor, such as in China. Of that 100,000, many are children.
WalMart gets special tax-breaks in most of the cities that they move into, tax-breaks that are not afforded the smaller "Mom & Pop" stores and other business that they eventually run out of business. Many of the former business owners are then forced to go to work for WalMart for poverty level wages, with no benefits.
WalMart likes to advertise its goods as "made in the USA". The truth is, most of their goods are manufactured whole or in-part by sweatshop or forced-labor in other countries.
Any WalMart employee who gets "caught" exploring "in any way" the possibility of bringing a union into WalMart is immediately fired. Only one WalMart store is unionized--that is in Canada where they have much stronger labor laws.
WalMart's labor practices are, of course, against the law, and they have lost numerous unfair labor suits brought against them by former employees--but they persist in their practices.
And now...WalMart is planning to go into the grocery Super-Market business, with the same business ethics and unfair labor practices that they are famous for.
So...how much are you willing to give up for a cheap bag of groceries? Careful before you answer, because it could be a whole lot more than you imagine. But then, if you're read the information contained on this page you already know.
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Now, ask yourself a few questions:
Is WalMart the kind of business that you want to patronize...considering all that you now know?
Do you believe that cheap prices are worth all the misery and suffering that they bring...not just in 3rd World countries, but right here in our own back yard?
Remember...the next job to go just might be yours...
Take action:
1) Contact WalMart and let them know how you feel about their policies. (Note: Wal-Mart has recently changed their contact webpages to make it more difficult for consumers to contact them. We advise that you go ahead and pick a department and send your comments to them anyway. Every comment counts...especially yours).
2) Use our Links at the top of this page to find out more about WalMart, and the many other companies who are getting wealthy off the sweat and sacrafice of their workers.
3) Think before you buy...remember, as consumers you have incredible power right inside your wallet. Use it wisely.
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To learn more about the underside of WalMart, and founder Sam Walton, read: In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart Is Devouring America by Bob Ortega - Investigative journalist Bob Ortega exposes the underside of Wal-Mart and chronicles Sam Walton's rise from backwater retailer in Arkansas to one of the richest men in the country. The book lays open Walton’s practiced use of corporate double-speak, showing that even as he was making a big media splash with his "Buy American" program in the 1980s, he was quietly expanding his company's Hong Kong staff and continuing to import apparel made by cheap child labor in the Third World.