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Retail News
Wal-Mart Gives Up On Liverpool
May 1, 2008
 Pressure from the community has forced Wal-Mart to withdraw plans to build a Supercenter in the town of Salina near the Liverpool Thruway exit on Route 57.
Wal-Mart claimed the decision was due to budgetary reasons. Residents in the village of Liverpool fought Wal-Mart in court to block the project. Wal-Mart has been working at locating a store on the Salina site for about five years.
Residents knew that traffic congestion and gutting of the village business community would happen if Wal-Mart built a store located just north of Liverpool.
Wal-Mart did not refer to such a conflict in its news release. "The decision is related to our continued plans to moderate growth of U.S. Supercenters," the release says. "After re-evaluating the anticipated budget, a determination was made not to move forward with this project."
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A Corporation's Responsibility
April 11, 2008
Watch this video that asks: "Doesn't Wal-Mart Have a Responsibility to Do Better?"
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Public Pressures Wal-Mart to Do Right
April 11, 2008
After the public learned that Wal-Mart had sued an employee who suffered major brain damage for $470,000, the company was forced to withdraw the suit.
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Wal-Mart Pushes Unsafe Chinese Products
October 17, 2007
 Wal-Mart is the #1 importer of Chinese goods. So, after the spree of high-profile recalls and outright bans on dangerous Chinese products, wouldn't it be logical for Wal-Mart to take the offensive against unsafe imported goods?
Shouldn't Wal-Mart stand up for the safety of American consumers? Wouldn't you?
The truth is that Wal-Mart is putting profits over people - again - by blocking laws requiring disclosure of where food comes from. Instead of looking out for consumer safety, Wal-Mart is watching its own bottom line.
That's why we put together a new ad to expose the truth about Wal-Mart and China.
Please watch Wake-Up Wal-Mart's new ad today.
Locally, on Oct. 18, Local One handed out leaflets about Wal-Mart and China at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Oneida, NY.
Even among nations, Wal-Mart is China's sixth largest trading partner: it buys more Chinese goods than industrial giants like Germany and Britain. This gives Wal-Mart the power to demand safer products from its Chinese suppliers. Unfortunately, it has demanded nothing more than lower prices, and has tried to cover up the consequences of its race to the bottom.
As consumers, we have the right to know that the products we buy are safe. Don't let irresponsible corporations like Wal-Mart cut us out of the loop. Please watch our new ad today, and send it to five friends:
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Wal-Mart Failing America's Children
August 16, 2007
Children across the country are preparing to go back to school. It's time for us to send Wal-Mart back to school, too.
For years, Wal-Mart has earned failing grades for its treatment of American workers, children, and taxpayers.
Wal-Mart earns an "F" for paying poverty-level wages. Wal-Mart earns an "F" for breaking child labor laws, again and again, right here in America. And Wal-Mart earns an "F" for pushing its health care costs onto taxpayers.
Go to www.wakeupwalmart.com and learn how you can let your neighbors know about Wal-Mart's failing grades.
Our taxes are higher because Wal-Mart fails to provide company health care to more than half of its workers. In 2005, taxpayers like you and me were forced to pay an estimated $1.37 billion to cover Wal-Mart workers' health care. We're paying more every day, and our tax bill may grow to $9.1 billion over the next four years.
Every tax dollar that goes to Wal-Mart is a tax dollar that could otherwise go to our schools. It is money that could be used to buy textbooks, repair buildings, and help children learn.
Shouldn't our tax dollars go to schools, not Wal-Mart?
Wal-Mart's failing report card is a disgrace. Wal-Mart's corporate irresponsibility is wrong, it is un-American, and it must stop. With over $12 billion in profits last year, Wal-Mart can afford to do the right thing.
With over 381,000 WakeUpWalMart.com supporters in all 50 states, we have the power to change Wal-Mart and change America for the better.
But changing America begins with you.
This school year, let's make sure Wal-Mart learns its lessons!
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Wal-Mart: China's Best Partner
June 13, 2007
Remember when Wal-Mart was as American as apple pie, and Sam Walton made a promise that Wal-Mart would buy everything possible from America?
Well, that was then... this is now.
Watch our latest TV ad and forward it to at least 5 friends:
Now, Wal-Mart's values are no longer America's values. Profit and greed have replaced patriotism and morality. ‘Buy China' has replaced ‘Buy America.' And, because of Wal-Mart, good paying, middle class American jobs are being shipped overseas.
Enough is enough!
It's time to tell Wal-Mart to be American again.
It's time to tell Wal-Mart to put American jobs and America's hard working families first.
Please write your Member of Congress and tell him/her to stand up for America, not Wal-Mart and China:
In 1985, Sam Walton wrote, “Our country's international balance of trade deficit is a serious problem. I strongly believe the future of Wal-Mart, U.S. manufacturing, and our nation depends upon our ability to jointly correct this problem.�
Sam Walton was right. But, instead of standing up for America, Wal-Mart has turned its back on Sam Walton's vision, our country, and our nation's hard-working families.
Today, Wal-Mart ships more jobs overseas than any other corporation. Not only is Wal-Mart the #1 importer of Chinese goods, but Wal-Mart imports so much from China that, if Wal-Mart was its own country, it would be China's sixth largest trading partner.
Enough is enough!
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Southern Blitz Hitting Wal-Mart
June 1, 2007
WakeUpWalMart.com, America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, announced that it will launch one of the most dramatic new phases of its 2-year old campaign to make Wal-Mart a more responsible employer and company by specifically targeting, for the first time, the company’s core customers – Southerners and Conservative Republicans.
The new strategic initiative by WakeUpWalMart.com, which is outlined in a strategy memo entitled “Winning Over Wal-Mart’s Core Customers,� comes in response to Wal-Mart’s recent announcements that the company is shifting its business and marketing strategy, once again, to get “back to the basics� or back to its core customers.
As part of this new strategic effort to expand the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign and win over Wal-Mart’s core customers, the group announced it will begin a million dollar “Summer Southern Blitz� TV-ad campaign. The 3-month “Summer Southern Blitz� campaign will help educate Southerners and Conservative Republicans, through a series of TV ads and grassroots actions, about how Wal-Mart’s record proves that Wal-Mart’s values are neither Southern nor Republican values.
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National Retail Bargaining Updates
May 1, 2007
Go to Grocery Workers United and learn the latest news about contract talks across the nation.
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Stop the Wal-Mart Tax
May 1, 2007
Ever wonder why you pay so much in taxes?
A big part of the reason is because multi-billion dollar corporations like Wal-Mart hire high-priced accountants and attorneys to dodge paying the taxes they owe.
Write your state legislators today and help close the tax loopholes that allow irresponsible corporations like Wal-Mart to avoid paying their fair share.
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Rights Group Raps Wal-Mart
May 1, 2007
In a scathing new 210-page report released April 30, Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association, the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch details how "Wal-Mart’s relentless exploitation of weak US labor laws thwarts union formation and violates the rights of its US workers."
The report notes that, "the retail giant stands out for the sheer magnitude and aggressiveness of its anti-union apparatus."
Carol Pier, senior researcher on labor rights and trade at Human Rights Watch, said,
"Wal-Mart workers have virtually no chance to organize because they’re up against unfair US labor laws and a giant company that will do just about anything to keep unions out. That one-two punch devastates workers’ right to form and join unions."
The report explains in great detail the extreme lengths, both lawful and unlawful, Wal-Mart goes to in order to keep workers from exercising their rights to organize.
Wal-Mart’s relentless anti-union drumbeat creates a climate of fear at its US stores. Many workers are convinced that they will suffer dire consequences if they form a union, in part because they do not hear pro-union views. Many are also afraid that if they defy their powerful employer by organizing, they could face retaliation, even firing.
Human Rights Watch found that Wal-Mart heightens this fear with its arsenal of unlawful anti-union tactics.
Read the Human Rights Watch press release and the entire report.
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