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Wal-Mart (20)
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- Top/Business/Retail Trade/Retailers
- Top/Home/Consumer Information/Complaints/Wal-Mart
- Top/Society/Issues/Business/Human Rights/Sweatshops
- Top/Society/Work/Workplace Discrimination
Collection of news articles focused mainly on Wal-Mart labor practices.
http://www.againstthewal.com/
A weblog designed to spread the anti Wal-Mart message through the internet.
http://blogagainstthewal.blogspot.com
Maryland approves a bill that would require all businesses there with more than 10,000 employees to spend at least 8% of their payroll on worker health benefits, directly affecting Walmart's low spending per worker.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0417-28.htm
UC Berkeley study finds that use of safety net programs by Wal-Mart workers in California is higher than average for the retail industry.
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/retail/walmart.pdf
Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley shares his thoughts with NPR's Alex Chadwick about the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart, and how a company that generates so much antagonism can be so successful. [5:14 Realaudio streaming broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1578326
NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Wal-Mart president and CEO Lee Scott about the benefits of being a top Fortune 500 company and the problems that come with the prestige. [13-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1803960
Wal-Mart's low prices place severe demands on the discount chain's suppliers, according to a magazine report. A demand to cut prices 5 percent every year has forced some suppliers into bankruptcy and prompted others to shut down American factories for che
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1572652
Professor Anthony J. Sebok examines the issue of whether the discrimination suit against the retailer should proceed as a class action.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20040809.html
A three-part series from the Los Angeles Times profiling the retail giant and its business practices. [Free registration required to view this content]
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-walmart-sg,1,1534896.storygallery
Fast Company looks at Wal-Mart's pricing practices and their sometimes devastating pressures it exerts on the companies it does business with.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Examines the issue of company's cultural censorship of rock and rap CDs by artists like Marilyn Manson, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sheryl Crow. [MetroActive]
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.09.97/walmart-music-9702.html
Wal-Mart's official facts and news website, with current news and information about the company.
http://www.walmartfacts.com/
Tracks information about litigation involving Wal-mart, and provides support services to attorneys who have already sued Wal-Mart.
http://www.wal-martlitigation.com/
Wal-Mart's impact on local ways of living: Small businesses, people who know what they are selling, community relationships that all vanish when Wal-Mart moves in.
http://www.walmartwatch.com/
Part of the National Organization for Women's "Women-Friendly Workplace Campaign" that alleges unfair labor practices by Wal-mart.
http://www.now.org/issues/wfw/wm-facts.html
Sex discrimination lawsuit alleging denial of advancement and training, lower wages, sexually hostile work environment and retaliation.
http://www.walmartclass.com
An educator and activist worries about the effect of Wal-Mart on the economy, workers, taxpayers, the environment, and National Public Radio.
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/badbusiness.html
Lampoons the company's own advertising to portray it as cruel and harmful to working people.
http://www.walocaust.com/
Inc. Magazine's article about how a small Maine town reacted to Wal-Mart's opening three stores in the area.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/19930701/3644.html
Last Updated: 2007-01-02 16:52:11
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