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Two site fights are raging outside of Milwaukee, WI.
We’d like to take the time here on the Wal-Mart Watch blog to analyze some of the proposals on this year’s proxy and evaluate what effects they could have on Wal-Mart’s corporate governance practices and business strategy.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a trial court erred by refusing to allow assistant managers at Wal-Mart to present their case as a class action suit.
“In the old days, it was OK to fudge,” Mr. Edelman says. “But today you get outed. And when you get outed, its impact is awful.”
Wal-Mart wants to build a supercenter on a beautiful parcel on the bank of the Anclote River, a protected Florida waterway in Tarpon Springs...but won’t if the Tarpon Springs volunteer Board of Adjustments has anything to say about it.
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- Site Fight Of The Week: Greater Milwaukee
Two site fights are raging outside of Milwaukee, WI. - Wal-Mart’s 2008 Shareholder Resolutions: Political Contributions Report
We’d like to take the time here on the Wal-Mart Watch blog to analyze some of the proposals on this year’s proxy and evaluate what effects they could have on Wal-Mart’s corporate governance practices and business strategy. - More Overtime Woes for Wal-Mart
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a trial court erred by refusing to allow assistant managers at Wal-Mart to present their case as a class action suit. - Richard Edelman Can’t Imagine Why People Don’t Like CEOs
“In the old days, it was OK to fudge,” Mr. Edelman says. “But today you get outed. And when you get outed, its impact is awful.” - Volunteer Board Standing Tall Against Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart wants to build a supercenter on a beautiful parcel on the bank of the Anclote River, a protected Florida waterway in Tarpon Springs...but won’t if the Tarpon Springs volunteer Board of Adjustments has anything to say about it.
