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Justice for Betty Dukes and the Women of Wal-Mart?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Liza Featherstone - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Dukes, who still works at Wal-Mart, is the lead plaintiff in Betty Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Stores, the largest civil rights class action suit in history, which accuses the retail giant of sex discrimination in pay, promotions and hiring. The potential class has at times included more than a million women (recently, though, estimates have run closer to the hundreds of thousands). Dukes and her colleagues have yet to have their day in court, all these years later, and if an army of right-wing opponents has its way, they never will.

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Walmart-Massmart merger a threat

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Business Report - Mar. 03 (News Report) - In a hard-hitting submission to the Competition Tribunal three government departments have criticised Wal-Mart and Massmart for their unwillingness to make any binding commitments that would address public interest concerns about the impact of the merger on local procurement, food security and broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE).

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D.C. Anti-Walmart Protesters Plan March on Developer‘s Home With ’Target’ Flyer

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Blaze - By Jonathon M. Seidl - Jan. 19 (News) - A group of Washington, D.C. protesters upset about the possibility of a Walmart store coming to their area is hoping to send the potential developer of the proposed store a message. So much so that they‘re planning to march to and protest at the developer’s personal residence. The group has even gone as far as to circulate the man’s home address.

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Canadian workers achieve first-ever contract at Wal-Mart

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

workdayminnesota.org - Apr. 15 (News Report) - Some 180 workers at the Wal-Mart store in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec, became the first North American employees of the monster anti-union retailer to achieve a union contract. On April 8, the firm legally had to accept a contract with UFCW Canada Local 501, implemented by a neutral arbitrator. Wal-Mart – the world’s largest retailer – has fought unionization at its stores throughout North America through a variety of tactics.

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The Big Three in the AM DEC 4

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Dec. 04 (News Report) - he Top Three issues brought to you in the AM. 1. Yes it is hard to believe, but one solid month after the historic Obama win and huge Democratic gains, there is still a United States Senate seat, undecided.

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The Greening of Wal-Mart (March 11, 2008)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Stanford Social Innovation Review - By Erica L. Plambeck, Lyn Denend - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Against this backdrop, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. unveiled a new plan to reduce the company's environmental footprint. In an October 2005 speech broadcast to all 1.6 million employees in all 6,000-plus stores and shared with some 60,000 suppliers worldwide, he announced that Wal-Mart was initiating a sweeping "business sustainability strategy." The idea was to reduce the company's impact on the environment through a commitment to three ambitious goals: "To be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy; to create zero waste; and to sell products that sustain our resources and the environment." 3

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The Price of Pickles [at Wal-Mart]

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:47:42 -0700

The London Review of Books - By John Lanchester - Jun. 22 (Special Report) - [Sam] Walton was the only person to do two things. First, he made price the central question at every stage of his business, from top to bottom. . . . Second . . . he would open everywhere . . . without ever relaxing his grip on the numbers and the costs and the always paramount question of price, price, price. . . . Wal-Mart talked Vlasic into pricing the pickles so that a gallon jar was on sale for $2.97. . . . Wal-Mart was soon selling 200,000 gallons of pickles a week. . . .

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