Walmart Unions

Website Is A Forum For Walmart Critics Of All Stripes

The Huffington Post | Alice Hines | Posted 05.12.2012

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It's like YouTube, if every video were about Walmart. Nearly three weeks after Walmart was accused of bribing government officials in Mexico, a n...

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Al Norman's Occupy Walmart: What the Debate Is Really About

David Nassar | Posted 04.30.2012

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Al Norman's new book Occupy Walmart, a collection of his essays written over the years, is timely because it reminds the reader of the fundamental flaws at Walmart that create problems like those recently exposed by the New York Times.

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Chinatown Walmart Ducks Los Angeles Chain Store Ban

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.23.2012

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The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved Councilman Ed Reyes's motion to ban chain retail stores from Chinatown on Friday. The ban appears...

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A Ban On ALL Chains In Chinatown?!

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.23.2012

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One month after Walmart announced that it would bring a store to Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles, one City Council member has stepped in to stop it....

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WATCH: LA Walmart Employee, Girshriela Green, Tells Her Story Of Poverty And Injury

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.23.2012

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Girshriela Green was unemployed and on welfare when she got a job at Walmart in Crenshaw, Calif. When she started as a part-time sales floor associate...

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Walmart In Chinatown? The Fight Is On

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.09.2012

At a rally Thursday against a new Walmart "Neighborhood Mart" moving into Los Angeles' Chinatown, employees argued the retailer's low wages have drive...

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Walmart's Internal News Wire Reveals Tactic That Could Spell Trouble

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.16.2011

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Walmart is famously aggressive in protecting its public image, particularly when it comes to accusations that it's treating its workers unfairly. Now,...

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The Walmart Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.13.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- In his struggle to organize Walmart's workers, Philip Meza spends a lot of his time in chain restaurants. On a recent morning on the ou...

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Walmart's Food Deserts: Greening the Bottom Line

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 09.27.2011

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Campaigns across the country are underway to pressure the promised 1,500 Walmarts, SUPERVALUs and Walgreens to hire full-time employees from the neighborhoods they serve, sign labor peace agreements, and pay living wages.

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Study: $12 Minimum Wage Would Have Negligible Effect On Walmart Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.19.2011

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WASHINGTON- If Walmart were to pay its employees a minimum of $12 an hour, what would that wage baseline do to the retail behemoth’s famously low pr...

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Sometimes It Takes a Fire to Wake Us Up

Matt Ryan | Posted 05.30.2011

In many parts of the world, it may be 2011, but at Walmart, it's still 1911. The fire that consumed those 146 girls' lives is in this respect still burning -- only now it has become a global fire.

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Wal-Mart: Unions Love Us

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

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No retailer in American history has ever had to divert so far from its corporate mission to do damage control on its image.

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Union Members Support Wal-Mart: Poll

Posted 05.25.2011

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Wal-Mart and workers' unions have a sea of bad blood between them. But, according to a new poll commissioned by Wal-Mart, three-quarters of union m...

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Walmart 'helps' 'inform' employees

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Walmart employee sent me a link to a website called "Walmart Community Votes," which allegedly exists to help inform employees about political candi...

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Wal-Mart's Union-Busting, 'Preference For Poverty' Described In Reader Interview

Chicago Reader | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Walmart has grown into one of the largest corporations in history--it's currently number one on the Fortune 500 list of top earners in the world--i...

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Chicago Wal-Mart: After Meeting With Executives, Union Leaders Still Opposed

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Chicago Federation of Labor said today it would ask its City Council allies to reject Chicago's second Wal-Mart after an unprecedented meeting bet...

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Should Every Baby Have a Bank Account?

Rohit Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Those without bank accounts can't get personalized checks. They also can't pass a credit check needed to rent an apartment or get a car loan. Reform is needed to help these working poor.

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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.

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We're All Wal-Mart Shoppers Now

Ron Galloway | Posted 05.25.2011

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WalMart has 1.4 million employees at its 4000 U.S. locations. These employees have one thing in common: a job. Maybe not the most rewarding job in the world, but a job nonetheless.

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Springsteen Sells Out -- To Wal-Mart!

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, LGBT Issues, Entertainment, Walmart Equality, LGBT Rights, Walmart Unions, Walmart Bruce Springsteen, Rock, Music Retail, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, Wtf, Entertainment News

There are a number of reasons Springsteen's move to sell exclusively through the mega-retailer is, um, really confusing, if not downright contradictory to the Springsteen hagiography.

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Wal-Mart's Failure to Protect Its Workers: An Unfortunate Symbol

David Nassar | Posted 05.25.2011

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When ten employees of the Wal-Mart meat department in a TX store elected UFCW as their union, Wal-Mart immediately scrapped their entire network of in-store butcher departments nationwide.

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Walmart's Mixed Signals: Giving More Money To Dems

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart was warning employees that a Democratic win in November would be bad for workers. But the ...

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Wal-Mart Intimidates Employees, Discourages Support of Democrats

David Nassar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the millions of dollars Wal-Mart spends to improve its image, a look behind the mask reveals a company that has not changed its appalling business practices at all.

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Wal-Mart Warns Workers Of Democratic Win

WSJ/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Wal-Mart has issued a statement regarding The Wall Street Journal article outlining how it's warning employees to beware of voting for Democra...

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Wal-Mart Never Saw it Coming

Ron Galloway | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wal-Mart held meetings explaining why an Obama victory might lead to unions organizing more easily. But are they aware that Buffy Wicks, the designer of Obama's grassroots campaign, used to work for Wake Up Wal-Mart?

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