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Title: Boycott Wal-Mart

Why you should wipe that smiling yellow face off your shopping list.

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Resource type: News article

Publication date: 05 / 08 / 2005

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Jim Hightower

Date and Time Added: 10/04/2005 at 6:08:01 pm

Source:

Independent Weekly


Synopsis:

Documents Wal-mart's poor treatment of their employees and Wal-Mart's less-than-honest practices in reporting how many full time employees they have; Wal-Mart considers 28 hours full time. Most employees of Wal-Mart make $11,000-$15,000 a year.

Additionally it discusses how Wal-Mart will not permit unionization and that benefits are not granted unless you have worked for two years and then the premiums are too high to be affordable.

There is further discussion of Wal-Mart's sexually discriminatory practices as well. Many other topics are also covered.