Fact Sheets

The Employee Free Choice Act Legislation that will truly make a difference for Wal-Mart workers

Wage & Hour Issues Read how Wal-Mart continually fails to pay every worker for every hour worked

Health Care Wal-Mart's still insures barely over half its employees on the company plan

Always Low Wages Poverty-level wages make life extremely difficult for Wal-Mart's 1.4 million workers

The Environment How Wal-Mart's business model is detrimental for our planet

In this site, you'll find the resources to draw a line in the sand and defend your community:

  • A database of reports and other documentation
  • Best practices and strategies based on real-world examples
  • Informed analysis from Al Norman
  • Experts who can help
  • The latest news from battlelines across the country.

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Whether you want to stop a Wal-Mart from being built in your community, prevent an existing Wal-Mart from expanding, or hold a Wal-Mart accountable for its actions in your hometown, Battle-Mart is here for you.

This year grassroots powered citizen groups will successfully thwart Wal-Mart's advance. Those victories are all of ours -- and we can learn from them to take the fight to many more fronts.

But Battle-Mart is only as good as you make it:


Resources

   
Sprawl Map 

Wal-Mart's Land Use
They don't call it "Sprawl-Mart" for nothing. Wal-Mart has over 4,000 stores in the United States alone, and each store takes up several acres. View this interactive map of Wal-Mart's U.S. stores and the companion report "Perpetuating Sprawl" (PDF)

   
Tax Avoidance 

Save Money, Live Better: Wal-Mart's State Tax Avoidance Schemes
Wal-Mart, using tax avoidance schemes provided to it by the accounting firm Ernst & Young, has short-changed many states out of millions of dollars of state tax money. Read our reports on how Wal-Mart avoids its fair share of state taxes.

   
OURTOWN 

Ourtown Maine
In the fall of 2005 Wal-Mart announced plans to build a SuperCenter in a small coastal Maine town.  The range of citizen responses soon created a fissure that divided the community. "Ourtown" follows the struggles of this community, challenged by the largest corporation in the world. To order a copy of the documentary film or to organize a screening in your community, visit www.ourtownmaine.com

   
Rolling Back Property Tax Payments

Rolling Back Property Tax Payments (PDF)
How Wal-Mart Short-Changes Schools and Other Public Services by Challenging its Property Tax Assessments. A report by Good Jobs First.

 

 

  

 

FROM THE BATTLEMART BLOG

Al Norman, Wal-Mart\'s Worst Nightmare
  • Wilderness Battlefield In Court
    The court heard the first arguments in a lawsuit that the National Trust for Historic Preservation and others filed back in September alleging that the local government failed to comply with the county’s comprehensive plan
  • Manchester, NJ. Wal-Mart Trying To Keep Out The Snakes
    For five years, Wal-Mart has been battling local residents in Toms River and Manchester, New Jersey. Not only are they fighting with people in these two Ocean County, New Jersey townships---but they’ve got reptiles against them too. 
  • Lockport and Riverhead, NY. Legal Detail Ties Two Anti-Wal-Mart Battles Together
    Two communities on the opposite ends of New York state have been linked together by a legal detail that could topple the largest retailer in the world. 
  • Austin, TX. Wal-Mart Finally Ready to Build Smaller Superstore
    Wal-Mart already has six supercenters in Austin, Texas, a city with more than 758,000 people. But when the giant retailer proposed to build a 7th supercenter in Austin, the neighbors thought is was too weird—even for the ‘keep Austin weird’ crowd. But Wal-Mart had to completely revamp its project. 
  • Angola, NY. Wal-Mart Abruptly Cancels Superstore Project
    Suddenly, without any advance notice, Wal-Mart has pulled out of a planned superstore project in the town of Evans, New York, which is located in southern Erie County, bordering on Lake Erie. The town includes the Village of Angola with a combined population of approximately 20,000 people. Wal-Mart’s overnight departure has left Evans officials embarrassed and disappointed. But for area residents opposed to the superstore, Wal-Mart’s farewell is a happy ending to a very bad movie. 
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