You are here

Home

Special Report | The Wal-Mart Problem: Week of January 8

Sun, 01/08/2012 - 11:20 — Dave Culver
Section(s): 
Business
Labor

4 Items including:

  • Walmart Blacklisted By Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices
  • The Walmart Heirs Have the Same Net Worth as the Bottom 30% of Americans
  • The Walmart Problem: Uncovering Labor's Place In An Era Of Joblessness
  • Wal-Mart Heiress’s Art Museum a Moral Blight

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Milt Priggee

Walmart Blacklisted By Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices, Lila Shapiro, Huffington Post

  • Leaders at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) -- one of the key unions engaged in the decades-long battle to organize Walmart's massive workforce -- hailed the Netherlands' biggest pension fund, Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (ABP)'s decision as a message to the company and its other shareholders: Treating workers badly is bad for business.
  • The Walmart Problem: Uncovering Labor's Place In An Era Of Joblessness

The Walmart Heirs Have the Same Net Worth as the Bottom 30% of Americans, Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress

  • In a given year, the richest ten percent of the country takes home about one quarter of total income.
  • The Walmart Problem: Uncovering Labor's Place In An Era Of Joblessness
  • Holiday workers squeezed by employers
  • Wal-Mart Heiress’s Art Museum a Moral Blight

The Walmart Problem: Uncovering Labor's Place In An Era Of Joblessness, Lila Shapiro, Huffington Post
In 2007 Human Rights Watch published a 210-page report, "Wal-Mart's violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association," which claimed that the company "stands out for the sheer magnitude and aggressiveness of its anti-union apparatus and actions."
"It's clear that when it comes to unions and collective bargaining, there is nothing that Walmart is unwilling to do," said Dorian Warren, a political science professor at Columbia University, who is writing a book about the anti-Walmart movement.

Wal-Mart Heiress’s Art Museum a Moral Blight, Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg News
In many ways an aesthetic success, the museum is a compelling symbol of the chasm between the richest Americans and everyone else.

 

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.