I just read local officials' and candidates' responses to questions about WalMart in the latest Somerville Scout and thought I would share an insight. Costco pays its workers an average wage of $17.00 per hour. Wal-Mart pays its 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...]
Low prices, low wages, low employment
How does that last part happen? Like this:A Montana farm sold mint to an American toothpaste company. One day the toothpaste company mysteriously ceased its orders. Wal-Mart, the toothpaste company explained, had decided that by its … [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...]
Wall-E vs. Wal-Mart
But perhaps most ominously, Wal-Mart is even getting involved in elections. During the 2008 election, management pulled employees into meetings to urge them not to vote for Obama because -- gasp! -- he would fight for worker's … [Read more...]
Victory? Wal-Mart Workers Unionize in Canada
Of course, there is always the threat that Wal-Mart shutters the store. But if we can successfully unionized another store, and then another, and then another... then Wal-Mart can't shut them all down, right? It's a stiff challenge, but I'm … [Read more...]
How Wal-Mart Could Have Prevented the Death
1. Managing the crowd. Wal-Mart took a very nonchalant approach to the massive crowd gathering outside its store and as a result, things got out of hand. It had no crowd control and no order to the madness brewing outside its … [Read more...]
Wal-Mart: The Real Story
Wake Up Walmart has released its first video of 2008. Walmart is a key issue for progressives to focus on- because of their awful health care benefits, Massachusetss citizens are estimated to be paying $20,281,735 a year in taxes to … [Read more...]
Light a Candle at Wal-Mart
A heads up from this weeks Mass. AFL-CIO Labor Reader: 12/19: Light a Candle for Change at Wal-Mart What: United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1445 will host a candlelight vigil at the Framingham Wal-Mart. Together we will light … [Read more...]
The value of Wal-Mart in America today. Just sayin’.
First, by way of thanks. I would like to thank everyone on the Newbury Democratic Town Committee for organizing and then actually pulling off a stellar and important event like this right in my own backyard. I was even let in, as a member … [Read more...]