As soon as John Connolly had renounced the Stand for Children money he (and Conley and Barros) attempted to get to influence the Boston mayoral race, local pundits began suggesting that the whole controversy was just political theater and … [Read more...]
Follow the Walmart $$$
Psssst: Did you know that Walmart money is paying for virtually every aspect of the campaign to eliminate the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts? Millions in Walmart dough is being steered to the groups that advocate for charter school … [Read more...]
Fuzzy Math that Would Make Enron Execs Blush
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...]
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...]
The Ultimate Greenwashers
1. Curb waste. Wal-Mart contributes to tons of waste in plastic bags each year. Why not recycle containers and pallets, and give away reusable bags? 2. Carbon offsets. Wal-Mart has one of the biggest fleets of trucks in the nation, … [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...]