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Wal-Mart: Think Before You Shop!
by ED FINKELSTEIN, Labor Tribune
[WorkerTimes Editor: In 2005, the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune featured a series of articles on Wal-Mart, exposing the mega-retailer's worker-unfriendly practices. Extended excerpts from the series are reprinted here with permission.]
| Wal-Mart, the homegrown, all-American retail supergiant, offers “Low prices” today. But how about your own “low wages and no health insurance” tomorrow? Impossible you say? They said the same about putting a man on the moon!
It’s your decision; it’s your job; it’s your standard of living.
We present this series to give our readers information. Whether you continue to shop
Wal-Mart after that is your decision. --Ed Finkelstein, St. Louis/So. Illinois Labor Tribune |
- Wal-Mart: "Workers be damned!" An insightful look at the Godzilla of retailers
- Wal-Mart: a clear and present danger to union jobs. Using Japanese tactics to invade here
- Wal-Mart’s workers pay the price for our "low prices"
- Pitiful Wal-Mart wages force workers onto welfare. While union jobs are lost, your tax dollars subsidize Wal-Mart!
- Wal-Mart manager: "A trained monkey" can do a woman’s job. Women, why are you shopping here? Men, would you want your wife or daughter working here?
- Feeding at the public trough: Wal-Mart gets $1 Billion ‘free’. Conservatively, $170 million from Missouri and Illinois PLUS millions in free state health care for employees and dependents
- Wal-Mart encourages public welfare for health care. High costs, eligibility roadblocks keeps health care at bay for workers
- Wal-Mart executive admits to hidden ‘slush fund’ to fight unions. Says he submitted phony invoices to cover-up illegal activities
- Wal-Mart: the destroyer of American companies, American jobs. Millions of American jobs, families destroyed for ‘low prices’
- Abused workers around the world make Wal-Mart products. Would you tolerate 24-hour work shifts, 9 cents an hour pay?
- Wal-Mart treats its employees like dirt! 45 percent turnover rate tells the story of unhappy employees
- Wal-Mart is destroying America’s unionized food industry
- World’s wealthiest firm shares a pittance on pensions. Wal-Mart's two pension plans mirror the shameful treatment of their employees.
- Wal-Mart: A danger to America’s economy
- Top 10 reasons NOT to shop at Wal-Mart. Summary of the series of articles exposing Wal-Mart's purchasing and personnel practices.
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