Who would you say is the most repugnant corporation in American corporate history? Is it Enron, who gave record amounts to the Bush-Cheney machine and bankrupt millions of investors? Halliburton, the shameless war profiteer? … [Read more...]
Wilderness Walmart Fight Rages On
For those of you who don't know about the Wilderness, it was a famous Civil War battle near Chancellorsville, Virginia. 3,700 Americans died there. To put that in perspective, about 2,000 Americans died on the shores on Normandy. The Civil … [Read more...]
Labor’s Labor Day Challenge for Wal-Mart
The coalition includes: AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Sierra Club, Campaign for America's Future, National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, National Consumers League, AFSCME, American Rights at Work, Communications Workers … [Read more...]
Help Needed Defeating Wal-Mart on Battlefield
Lowell at Blue Virginia has reasonably asked on the location: Maybe I'm missing something here, like the (supposedly) urgent need to build retail right on top of a battlefield where 145,000 Union and Confederate soldiers fought and more … [Read more...]
The Steroids Era and Wal-Mart
When we look back on The Steroids Era in baseball, we're going to see a bunch of players who broke the rules and grew to an unnatural behemoth size, and how the people who were supposed to provide oversight either turned a blind eye or even … [Read more...]
Labor Violations, Bogus Standards in WalMarts Chinese Supplier Factories – via China Labor Watch
This is merely the latest, and one of the most grievous, examples of Wal-Mart saying one thing and doing another, in their long running anti-labor track record. Americans cannot continue to support the world's largest retailer while … [Read more...]
Will Walmart live up to their PR on Health Care this time?
Despite all of their feel-good rhetoric, the reality is that <a href="http://blog.wakeupwalmart.com/ufcw/2009/05/walmarts_new_ad.html" target="_blank">nearly half of Walmart’s 675,000 employees – not to mention … [Read more...]
Walmart’s $4 Drugs Coming From Indian Company Whose Products Have Been Banned In US and Canada
2009 Violations In Feb 2009, the FDA halted a review of importation applications for generic drugs manufactured at Ranbaxy's Paonta Sahib plant owned by Ranbaxy Laboratories, LTD, the Indian generic drug manufacturer, "due to evidence of … [Read more...]
Do Walmart employees even know their own store policies?
The Walmart in Norman, Oklahoma refused to accept bike returns until a district manager, acting on a reader tip, reminded the store that they were violating company policy. Reader Keia tried to return the "shoddily constructed," "dangerous … [Read more...]
Walmart pretends it cares about healthcare
Wal-Mart is ramping up its Washington activity to push for comprehensive health care reform, and the world's largest retailer says it is ready to use its economic muscle to get out in front and influence the discussion. "We're willing to … [Read more...]