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
Site Fights
Wal-Mart developers thrive on an air of inevitability: that nothing can stop the corporate juggernaut when it makes a decision.
That couldn't be further from the truth.
As you read this, thousands of neighbors are working through grassroots organizations to stop Wal-Mart in its tracks. Every situation is different, but by combining our resources we can help them all. An important part of Battlemart is telling these stories and helping out where we can.
Find more site fight stories and commentary from site fighter Al Norman on the Battle-Mart blog.
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.
ABOUT AL NORMAN
Al Norman stopped Wal-Mart from locating in his hometown of Greenfield, Massachusetts om 1993 and his fight continues today.
Named "enemy no. 1" by Fortune Magazine, Al runs Sprawl-Busters, and has traveled throughout the U.S. helping dozens of local coalitions.
