Latest Headlines
Chicago alderman pleads for a Wal-Mart -07.01.09 | [Chicago Tribune]
Wal-Mart Backs Drive to Make Companies Pay for Health Coverage -07.01.09 | [Wall Street Journal]
Key hearing set on Wal-Mart near Va battlefield -07.01.09 | [WMDT-TV (Va.)]
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.
Don't know where to start?
Try the Battle-Plan.
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
 | Wal-Mart's Land Use | |
 | Save Money, Live Better: Wal-Mart's State Tax Avoidance Schemes | |
 | Ourtown Maine | |
 |  | Rolling Back Property Tax Payments (PDF)
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FROM THE BATTLEMART BLOG
- Final Hearing Date Set in Wilderness Standoff
A July 27 public hearing is scheduled in Orange County on a Wal-Mart Supercenter proposed near the Wilderness Civil War battlefield. The hearing scheduled by supervisors Tuesday night is the final step before the Board of Supervisors takes up the proposal. - Wal-Mart Watch Daily Clips- July 1st 2009
- Chicago, IL. Chicago Alderman Still Hungers For Wal-Jobs
- Norfolk, VA. Kmart Sued For Discriminating Against Worker With Cane
Kmart, America’s forgotten retailer, had an unflattering blue light shining on it this week, when it was announced that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had named the discount retailer in a lawsuit filed June 23rd under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a former worker who used a cane to walk. According to the legal complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kmart Corporation), in September of 2004 Alonzo McGlone was hired as a greeter at a Kmart Super Center in Norfolk, Virginia. McGlone uses a cane, and the EEOC alleges that the Kmart employee was successfully performing his duties as a greeter. The lawsuit contends that Kmart fired him for using his cane while on the job. - St. Paul, MN. Wal-Mart Charged With Unfair Labor Practices, Threatening Workers
Every Wal-Mart manager is warned by the company not to “Threaten, Interrogate Promise, Spy” on their workers. Wal-Mart calls this their TIPS on unionization. But union officials say that Wal-Mart routinely uses threats and intimidation to scare workers away from voting in a union. On June 30, 2008, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in a case brought against Wal-Mart by the United Food and Commercial Workers, that Wal-Mart had violated federal labor law at its Kingman, Arizona store.
SEARCH BATTLE-MART
- In the two sections below, you can find specific examples, original documents and links to other websites organized by the type of tactic or issue.
Tactics
ISSUES
- Battle-Mart is a joint project of Wal-Mart Watch and Al Norman and Steve Alves.
