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RILA Business Group Urges Congress To Cut Corporate Taxes

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jillian Berman - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Walmart, Apple, J.Crew and scores of other famous retailers are members of a group pushing for changes in the corporate tax code that would benefit companies that stash more cash abroad. The Retail Industry Leaders Association, or RILA, sent a letter to

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How Walmart, ExxonMobil, and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - In late February, some 70 guests arrived for dinner at a hotel near Washington, DC's Union Station. Nine members of Congress were there, including Reps. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Tex.), Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), and Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-Calif.), as was former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis . Also in attendance were lobbyists and executives for Fortune 500 companies and big industry trade groups. Lonnie Johnson, a lobbyist for ExxonMobil, sat next to Hinojosa at dinner; Walmart lobbyist Ivan Zapien gave the closing remarks . Exxon, American Gas Association, Darden Restaurants, and Coca-Cola had underwritten the event. That was how, seven weeks into the 113th Congress, as lawmakers began work on immigration reform and a tax code overhaul , powerful corporate lobbyists scored premium access to politicians. The dinner was organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), an obscure offshoot of the 27-member, all-Democratic Congressional Hispanic Caucus . ( Caucuses are factions of ...

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Wal-Mart Reaches Out to Veterans

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - Other companies should follow Wal-Mart’s lead to help reduce high unemployment among those who served in recent wars.

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Woman finds note from Chinese labor camp prisoner in Kmart decorations

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Examiner - By : Mikael Thalen - Jan. 11 (News Report) - "Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever." The letter went on to describe 15 hour work days, no days off, and pay at 10 yuan per month ($1.61 US Dollar) if any. It also described the 1-3 year average forced labor terms without trial, and the large amount of Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor, a banned spiritual group.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders: The Soul of America

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:15:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sen. Bernie Sanders - Jan. 09 - Despite such terminology as "fiscal cliff" and "debt ceiling," the great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do with financial issues. It is all about ideology. It is all about economic winners and losers in American society. I

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The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Dec. 20 (Special Report) - New details have emerged in the massive bribery scandal behind Wal-Mart's expansion into Mexico, where the corporate giant now operates one in five of its stores. After exposing the bribery earlier this year, The New York Times has now visited dozens of Mexican towns and cities to document the payoffs the company used to get its way. We're joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who broke the story, David Barstow. As a result of Barstow's reporting, the Justice Department is now considering whether Wal-Mart violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it a crime for American corporations to bribe foreign officials. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Walmart Sends Taxpayers The Doctor's Bill

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Alice Hines - Dec. 01 (News) - Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according...

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Walmart strike goes nationwide on Black Friday

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

rt.com - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Angered by low pay and poor treatment, Walmart employees across the US went on strike during the retailer’s Black Friday event, protesting to draw attention to their working conditions.

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US economy depends on the success of Walmart workers' Black Friday strike

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Robert Reich - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - A half-century ago, America's largest private-sector employer was General Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of around $50, in today's dollars, including health and pension benefits. Today, America's largest employer is Walmart, whose average employee earns $8.81 an hour. A third of Walmart's employees work fewer than 28 hours per week and do not qualify for benefits. There are many reasons for the difference – including globalization and technological changes that have shrunk employment in American manufacturing, while enlarging it in sectors involving personal services, such as retail. But one reason, closely related to this seismic shift, is the decline of labor unions in the United States. In the 1950s, over a third of private-sector workers belonged to a union. Today, fewer than 7% do. As a result, the typical American worker no longer ...

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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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