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Walmart and class-action lawsuits: A Supreme Court ruling worth checking out

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Dukes v Walmart (PDF) looks tailor-made to worry those who think the court has become too business-friendly. On one side was a mammoth corporation, little loved on the left. On the other, 1.5m women (personified in the case by one Walmart greeter, Betty Dukes, pictured above) suing Walmart for alleged discrimination in pay and promotion. The court sent them home unhappy, ruling unanimously against them on one procedural question and 5-4 on the legal heart of the matter.

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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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Pair of Supreme Court rulings deal blows to business

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By David G. Savage - Mar. 23 (News Report) - Decisions make it easier to sue drug makers over alleged stock fraud and allow workers to sue their employers if they suffer retaliation after making an oral complaint.

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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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The Wal-Mart Decade

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - European productivity grew faster than the US until the 1990s, mainly reflecting catchup; but America moved ahead in the late 1990s; the data suggest that the differential has leveled out since, so this may have been a one-time bulge.

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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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Ralph Gomory: Jobs, Trade, and Mercantilism-Part I-Facing Reality

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:35:49 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ralph Gomory - Sep. 13 - Our nation's continuing massive trade deficits are destroying important sectors of American industry and eliminating desperately needed jobs; yet balancing trade is not even on our government's agenda. This is happening because we are not facing reality,

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Wal-Mart to Offer Its Workers a College Degree Program

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephanie Clifford, Stephanie Rosenbloom - Jun. 04 (News Report) - The retailer is joining with a Web-based university to give employees tuition reductions and credits from work.

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Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That’s A Good Thing

Sun, 30 May 2010 15:55:03 -0700

TechCrunch - May. 30 (Opinion) - By now, just about everyone on the planet has heard the term “Apple Fanboy.” If you’ve ever said anything good about an Apple product, you’ve likely been called one. But a new class of fanboy has emerged

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Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Walmart Sex-Bias Lawsuit: Walmart Faces a Gender Discrimination Suit

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Sean Gregory - Apr. 29 (News Report) - Unfortunately for Walmart, the company received a more serious setback this week. On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled that a gender-discrimination suit against the company, first filed in 2001, could move forward as a class action, a decision that could potentially cost Walmart upwards of $1 billion, inflicting a painful wound on its much-improved corporate image.

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Wal-Mart Bets on Reduction in Prices

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Miguel Bustillo, Timothy W. Martin - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Wal-Mart is cutting prices in an aggressive campaign to reinforce its reputation as a discount leader, as it seeks to reverse months of slowing sales.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Broken Society

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:55:24 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - The United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace. Middle-class wages have lagged. Unemployment will remain high. It will take years to

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Wal-Mart Hippies

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Mar. 05 (Opinion) - The Tea Party’s raging against the machine echoes an older radicalism from the opposite end of the political spectrum.

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Wal-Mart to slash greenhouse gas emissions

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Tiffany Hsu - Feb. 26 (News Report) - Wal-Mart to slash greenhouse gas emissions

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Walmart's Project Impact: A Move to Crush Competition

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Sean Gregory - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1.

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Watching the Recession in Wal-Mart's Aisles

Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Daniel McGinn - May. 03 (News Analysis) - It's 9:20 a.m. inside a Wal-Mart supercenter just north of Denver, and three-dozen employees are gathered in the back of the electronics department. Their boss, Karisa Sprague, steps to the center of the huddle. "GOOD MORNING, KARISA," they thunder, then stamp their feet twice, clap their hands twice and shout: "TEAMWORK, HUH!" Sprague congratulates an employee named Crystal on her 10th anniversary with the company, and offers a quick pep talk. Then the employees stretch: touching toes, bending elbows, rotating wrists. It's an odd daily ritual, but in a way it makes sense. While much of America's retail landscape sits idle during this recession, these workers have a reason to warm up: even as Americans cut spending, business at Wal-Mart has never been better.

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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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Negawatts and Negabeds

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, Amory Lovins - Dec. 30 (Editorial) - If we want to achieve our ends with fewer resources, then why do we create market structures that link profits directly to volume? Rewarding energy providers for delivering more kilowatt-hours or hospitals for putting more patients in beds, as we do now, drives both to try to increase use, rather than to find more efficient ways to achieve the end-use goals of cold beer and good health.

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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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Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Ann Zimmerman, Kris Maher - Aug. 01 (News Report) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.

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Wal-Mart offers free rebate check cashing in its stores - Apr. 29, 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Parija B. Kavilanz - Apr. 29 (News Report) - In a move designed to attract consumers' rebate money, Wal-Mart Stores said Tuesday it will let shoppers cash their federal stimulus checks for free at its stores and offer additional discounts on groceries.

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Candid Camera: Trove of Videos Vexes Wal-Mart

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Gary Mcwilliams - Apr. 09 (News Report) - In recent months, Flagler has opened its trove of some 15,000 Wal-Mart tapes to the outside world, with an eye toward selling clips. The material is proving irresistible to everyone from business historians and documentary filmmakers to plaintiffs lawyers and union organizers.

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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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Microsoft Combined With Intel For A Vista Logo Disaster

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

InformationWeek - By Dave Methvin - Feb. 29 (News Report) - Earlier, I said Microsoft, OEMs, and retailers all deserved blame in the logo disaster, but these insider e-mails have changed my opinion on apportioning blame. Many OEMs and retailers tried to do the right thing, but were both ignored and double-crossed by Microsoft's final Vista logo program so that Intel would be happy and make more money.

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Wal-Mart: The New Washington

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael Barbaro - Feb. 03 (News Report) - The nation's largest private employer sure sounds like it's running for president these days. It's making sweeping commitments to reduce America's energy use and improve its health care system. It's obsessively polling voters, boasting of a higher favorability rating than Congress. It's even touting an "economic stimulus plan for American shoppers" in the form of steep price cuts made last week. (Four 12-packs of Pepsi? $10.)

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