INTERNATIONAL LABOUR INSIDE WALMART : The following series of documentaries has been brought to Molly's attention via the site of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ( UFCW ). For more on Wal-Mart see Wake Up Wal-Mart , Wal-Mart Watch and Wal-Mart Workers Canada . Here's the video show.... ILILILILILILIL ABOUT THE SHOW: More Five years ago CNBC's David Faber took an unprecedented look inside...
Every once in while the mainstream media produces an insightful and fair-handed look at Wal-Mart. Even less often, the mainstream business press produces such a piece. But last night it happened, and Wal-Mart can’t be happy. “The New Age of Wal-Mart” is billed as a 90 minute look “Inside the Walmart empire, revealing how the company navigated a period of intense criticism and...
It has become just another mouthpiece with our tax dollars for Obama . It’s not that hard to make a living in the arts without government money if you paint, or write, or sing, or perform something decent, intelligent and not demeaning to women. Starving artists probably deserve to be so. My husband sold 11 paintings this summer and he’s a hobbyist. They are lobbyists. Go here to check...
This Labor Day, Wake Up Walmart , along with a large coalition of labor, environmental and community groups, are challenging Walmart to live up to their PR promises and join us in supporting the American Values Agenda for Change at Walmart . To help with the effort, Wake Up Wal-Mart is airing two TV ads in major cities. Check out the first here and the second below the fold: The coalition includes:...
This Labor Day, Wake Up Walmart , along with a large coalition of labor, environmental and community groups, are challenging Walmart to live up to their PR promises and join us in supporting the American Values Agenda for Change at Walmart . To help with the effort, Wake Up Wal-Mart is airing two TV ads in major cities. Check out the first here and the second below the fold: The coalition includes:...
Last week Virginia's Orange County Board of Supervisors vote to approve the building of a new Wal-Mart Supercenter within the historic boundaries of the Wilderness Battlefield - and one of the most significant battlefields of the Civil War. The Civil War Preservation Trust has been fighting Wal-Mart on this location for over a year - seeking an alternative location and compromoise - and after last...
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 encouraged it. Well, if you think about it, wasn't our economy in sort of a similar Steroids Era? Real estate prices were pushed to unsustainable levels, Wall Street...
This December, Wake Up Wal-Mart is going all out with our annual Holiday Campaign to awaken America's largest retailer to its responsibilities. Here is a peek at our second TV ad for 2008's holiday season: Titled Wal-Mart: America Just Can't Afford It Any Longer , the ad focuses on the hidden costs of shopping at Wal-Mart: 1) The tax burden Wal-Mart imposes on Americans by forcing its employees to...
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