I know I’m just kind of preaching to the choir about how ugly Walmart’s business practices. But in the spirit of the holiday season, I’d like to invite you to do one of three things:
1. Send this ad to your friends and family. Walmart’s low prices are deceiving and in this struggling economy, a lot of good people might be fooled. It’s important that we get the word out about the high cost of these low prices.
2. Visit WakeUpWalmart.com today and learn how you can help. With the election over, if you have time to join the good fight, we could always use your support.
3. Blog about how the Obama administration should have a say in curbing Walmart’s ugly business practices. This isn’t only a case of a corporation out of control; it’s a case of worker abuse, shoddy environmental practices and an active union-busting agenda.
We’re fighting for more than just winning elections. We are fighting for a more progressive America.
In this time of economic peril, it’s more important now than ever. I urge you all to join the fight and send a strong message to Walmart!
ron-newman says
I’d like to see a comparison.
lynne says
Ever since the guy in charge there said it was OK for pharmacists to not dispense legal prescriptions (like, say, for the morning-after pill, or even birth control) because their religion says no abortions. So far as I know they never reversed this policy.
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p>Don’t like doing the job of a pharmacist? Get the hell out of the field.
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p>I get the sense they are run by something in the line of right wingers.
ryepower12 says
It doesn’t matter if one is better or not.
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p>If Walmart thinks its douche-bag practices are costing them more than their saving them, then they’ll cease those douche-bag practices. By shopping at other stores, you’re still getting stuff cheap, but not putting money in a very, very bad company that, if they changed, would likely change the entire industry. Make Walmart allow unions, increase wages and health care… and the entire industry would follow. If they didn’t, you shop at Walmart and boycott the other alternatives.
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p>Also, if you want to shop at a really cheap store that has many of the same things at Walmart, go to Costco. They pay their employees a living wage and provide health insurance – I think even to the part-timers. For furniture, go to Ikea – for the very same reasons. Cheap products and treating/compensating employees well are not mutually exclusive.
eaboclipper says
is this astroturf?
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lynne says
He says so in the post. And his nickname’s a dead giveaway.
eaboclipper says
working “with” not working “for” with has a different connotation than for. I can be working with a candidate to help elect them, and still not be working for, as in getting paid.
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p>That was the clarification I asked for.
garrett-quinn says
rabble rabble rabble
joets says
about cutting down the size of government as they are wal-mart.
farnkoff says
Or all those imaginary welfare queens from 1984?
What are you people talking about?
bob-neer says
Is the John Birch Society running the anti-Walmart campaign these days? What, exactly, does the political system in China have to do with shopping at Walmart? Would it be OK if they outsourced everything to, say, Zimbabwe, which has a lousy government but is not communist.
garrett-quinn says
Are running campaigns against that evil-multinational-unrepentant-domestic-terrorist Wal-Mart. So far their camapign is going worse than the equal marriage campaign. Oh well!
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p>When The Messiah signs the Employee Free Choice Act and takes away the right to secret ballot for workers they might make some gains.
kbusch says
Every year, support for equal marriage increases.
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p>Rolling back the income tax, a campaign on which you just worked, lost support this year.
kirth says
making a Very Big Deal about how so many of their goods were Made In The USA.
johnk says
Do they say Holiday or Christmas?
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p>Has the BillO stupid season started yet, or does he wait until after Thanksgiving?
centralmassdad says
and is stupid in each
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joets says
lol @ that
ryepower12 says
Nope! I’m three years clean on that one. Until Walmart allows their employees to create unions (among other things), I won’t spend a dime there.
midge says
when wal-mart employees attend orientation, among the items they are taught is that a union will be bad for them and their co-workers. I have seen this video, it’s quite convincing and scary about the ‘evil’ unions. Not that I agree with wal-mart’s belief or practice. If you don’t take their message on unions seriously during orientation, you won’t be welcome back to Day 2. They will kick you out of the training class.
huh says
It’s one of Wal-Marts unspoken tenants. Anything that looks like a workers organization is eliminated.