Given that Wal-Mart's business model is borrowed heavily from the supply chain management system pioneered by the same textile industry that brought you the Triangle Fire and Rana Plaza collapse, it's hardly surprising that the company would then import the intimidation of pregnant women so...
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Wal-Mart's labor practices are really great for workers who want to get hurt on the job. Workers at an Indiana Wal-Mart warehouse allege they were subjected to safety risks including.
Wal-Mart is introducing a line of organic food at low prices: Walmart plans to announce on Thursday that it is putting its muscle behind Wild Oats organic products, offering the.
Hey, at least one entity thinks Wal-Mart is awesome. The private research firm Wal-Mart paid to say it: Last year Walmart commissioned a study on itself, and now its findings can be revealed: Walmart is the greatest thing since penicillin. More specifically, the study sees...
This purloined presentation of Wal-Mart anti-union propaganda is pretty unprofessional. You'd at least think the world's largest retailer would argue something a bit more complicated than a labor organization would.
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and.
Um, yes. The two proposals differ a bit in the details, but they use roughly the same mechanism to reach the same goal, so we'll go with Demos's proposal (described in full here) for ease of explanation. Basically, the argument is this: Walmart throws off...
Got to give it to Wal-Mart--like the Henry Clay Fricks and J.P. Morgans of old, it lays the system of inequality out for everyone to see: A Cleveland Wal-Mart store.
Gawker's series encouraging Wal-Mart employees to tell their own stories is both incredibly powerful and scaring the world's largest corporation. The last thing Wal-Mart wants is for workers to have.
I am highly skeptical of the real motives here, but I am glad Wal-Mart is publicly calling for improved worker safety in Bangladesh. That said, it's pretty clear that a) Wal-Mart could play a far more active role in the conditions of the workers who...
A few labor items of note. 1. Hilda Solis is resigning as Secretary of Labor. Hard to blame her given the isolation of the Department of Labor during the Obama.
The Black Friday strike at Wal-Mart was interesting. I'm a bit skeptical that it means a lot, but who knows what will to what. People thought Occupy or the Battle.