Wal-mart articles.
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California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber discovered that Wal-Mart was encouraging its workers to apply for public assistance Fortune: Should We Admire Wal-Mart? Economist: Retaliating first, Wal-Mart in Canada Jacksonville, Texas Meat Cutters Rocky Mountain News: Rally for union bid Overview of Wal-Mart:
Criticism of Wal-Mart From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(much of the old links to articles has been moved to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart#External_Links)
How unionizing Wal-Mart will help American Workers (Click here)"According to Cornell University’s office of labor research, 74% of U.S. employers currently wage moderate to extremely aggressive anti-union campaigns, Wal-Mart among them. While spokesperson Christi Gallagher maintains that the company is “pro-associate, not anti-union,” Wal-Mart does everything from asking store managers to call a 24-hour hotline at the slightest sign of union activity to flying a ten-person labor team into stores to talk to employees."--From Fortune Magazine May 3, 2004 Ask yourself: Why are U.S. employers so against unions?
The 21st century robber barons: Where do all these savings go, when Wal-Mart hires low wage workers?
Where does the money go when some Wal-mart locations gives its employees food stamp applications when they are hired?
To the Walton family, CEO's and founders of Wal-mart:
Forbes top 400 richest people in America
FIVE of the top 10 richest people in America are Wal-Mart family members The Walton family
is as rich as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined.
Links and Articles
The Nation:
Down and Out in Discount America California Assemblywoman
Sally Lieber....was...tipped off by dissatisfied workers. [H]er office discovered that Wal-Mart was encouraging its workers to apply for public assistance, "in the middle of the worst state budget crisis in history!" California had a $38 billion deficit at the time, and Lieber was enraged that taxpayers would be subsidizing Wal-Mart's low wages, bringing new meaning to the term "corporate welfare."...The Wal-Mart documents--[were] instructions explaining how to apply for food stamps, Medi-Cal (the state's healthcare assistance program) and other forms of welfare....Public assistance is very clearly part of the retailer's cost-cutting strategy.
(It's ironic that a company so dependent on the public dole supports so many right-wing politicians who'd like to dismantle the welfare state.)( Read more... ) 
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