Via Political Animal, I see there’s now a Wal-Mart blog up: “The Best and the Worst about Wal-Mart.”
I shop at Wal-Mart. It’s the closest store to home, and there’s also that low price thing going for it. One thing that strikes me about shopping there (apart from its low wages and imports from China) is the frequency I enter the store and see short check-out lines, yet by the time I head back to the aforementioned lines myself they’ve magically grown much, much longer.
Okay, maybe it just seems that way, but I do find it odd how customers have to wait in line sometimes given all the employees they have roaming about there.
mmmmm Walmart closes a store in Canada. Says it is losing money. Just happens the store employees there had just voted to go union. mmmm a Walmart store that loses money mmmm I wonder.
WalMart is anti-union, no doubts about that but they wouldn’t close a store over it. The only time they close a store is if the profit margin does not meet a set standard and yes some stores do actually lose money. As far as employees talking union they would just fire them and can do so legally because when you sign those papers on your hire date you pledge not to engage in union organizing efforts, it is a legal binding contract. Fair business practice? Of course not. Legal business practice? Unfortunately yes. sigh…. an honest days work for an honest days pay, did such a thing ever exist? Or was exploitation always the rule?
Fed Up in America, land of the free, the brave, and the increasingly poor.
You can see their side at http://www.walmartfacts.com
Tired of Wal-Mart’s crap? So are the rest of us! Take a stand and show them that they can’t get away with casually ignoring the rights of their workers here and in other countries. The International Labor Rights Fund is sponsoring a Worker Tour of Wal-Mart workers from all over the world who will come here to expose the glaring injustices that are far too routine in Wal-Mart’s suppliers’ factories and farms. For more information or to bring the worker tour to your community, visit http://www.laborrights.org!