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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
Examples and Resources
International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)
The goals of this Tucson, Arizona, based organization are to stop “the adverse environmental impact on dark skies by building awareness of the problem of light pollution and of the solutions, and to educate on the value and effectiveness of quality nighttime lighting.”
SLAPP Background Letter (2006)
This letter was written as part of a case in Delaware, in which a developer won court approval to search the computers of opponents to a big box store. It provides some background on “Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) suits. Approval by the courts of such a broad “discovery”…
Crime at Wal-Mart: An Introduction to the Issue
Read an excerpt from Al Norman’s book, “Slam Dunking Wal-Mart,” to see why crime is an important issue to bring up when fighting a Wal-Mart in your community.
Bozeman 2020 Community Plan, Land Use (2001)
Anticipating that a projected doubling of its present population during the next twenty years will cause added land use pressure, this Montana city aims: “To inject long-range considerations into the determination of short-range actions.” Starting with the common theme of residents’…
K-Mart Corporation v. City of Westlake, OH, 1997
This court case upholds the importance of a Comprehensive Plan, and shows than even on commercially zoned land, a city can reject a plan for well-documented reasons. In this case, one of the reasons was an inadequate storm water plan. That was enough to deny the project, along with other reasons.…
Wal-Mart Stores v. The Vermont Environmental Board, 1996
Wal-Mart appealed a decision by the Environmental Board that declined a Wal-Mart application for St. Alban’s, Vermont, arguing that the state should not have considered the store’s potential adverse impacts on town tax revenues, and other factors as part of
Ann Arundel County, MD Rezoning Requests
In Anne Arundel County, Maryland, rezoning requests are handled by an Administrative Hearings Officer, then to the County’s Board of Appeals, and then to the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel county. Citizens who use their right to appeal a zoning decision, can cause Wal-Mart considerable delays, and…
Maryland Fair Share Health Care Act
SB 790, known as the “Fair Share Health Care Act,” requires companies with more than 10,000 employees to spend at least 8 percent of their payroll on health benefits, or pay the balance into a state low-income health insurance fund. Maryland became the first state in the country to set…
Greenfield, MA stops Wal-Mart rezoning
Voters in Greenfield, Massachusetts’ defeat of Wal-Mart’s attempt to rezone 63 acres of land two miles north of Main Street “became a watershed event in the revolt against Wal-Mart,” said activist Al Norman, who organized and led the citizens’ group effort in his hometown. With…
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- 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
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