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Wal-Mart To Lay Off 300 At Bentonville Headquarters -02.17.10 | Arkansas Business

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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

Wal-Mart Loses Lobbying Effort to Gut California Environmental Law -09.03.10

Developer & Wal-Mart Get $6 Million Bail Out From Taxpayers -08.30.10

Delray Beach, FL. Wal-Mart Gets Slam-Dunked by Planning Board -08.20.10

Wal-Mart Opponents Preventing From Speaking in Marple, PA -08.19.10

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:

Have questions? Ask away.
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Resources


		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)

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