Fact Sheets

More of the Same: Wal-Mart's 2009 Health Care Fails To Deliver for Associates
The release of the Susan Chambers memo in the fall of 2005 put Wal-Mart on the defensive regarding Wal-Mart's benefits strategy. Finally, critics and consumers alike had a firsthand look into the internal decision-making process of Wal-Mart's leadership - and the results were appalling. (PDF)

The Employee Free Choice Act: Wal-Mart’s Last Stand Against Unionization? 
With the election of Barack Obama and the potential passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, Wal-Mart is clearly afraid that its anti-worker practices of the last half century might be coming to a close. (PDF)

Wal-Mart’s Dismal Record on Worker and Customer Safety
Examples of Wal-Mart's unsafe working and shopping conditions with case examples from federal court. (PDF)

Wal-Mart's Wage and Hour Violations
Wal-Mart is currently facing more than 80 lawsuits at various stages of the legal process. The potential financial impact of these cases and those still to come are massive,
even for a behemoth such as Wal-Mart. (PDF)

Wal-Mart: Always Low Wages
The current contrast between the earnings of the 1.4 million U.S. Wal-Mart employees and the earnings of the Walton family provide a striking example of the widening income gap in America. (PDF)

Wal-Mart's New Health Plan: Medicaid
In the most recent report from Policy Matters Ohio, Wal-Mart tops the list of Ohio employers with the most employees receiving government health care assistance. According to Wal-Mart, these rankings are "notoriously unreliable" and "hard to verify." However, when you consider that Wal-Mart tops the list in every state where the information is available, they
start to look reliable. (PDF)

Wal-Mart: Save Money, Bust Unions
Wal-Mart frequently closes down entire operations rather than see them unionize. After shutting down a store in Quebec and a meat department in Texas, Wal-Mart is on the verge of closing a garage in Gatineau, Canada, as well. Read more about the company's anti-union policy. (PDF) 

The Unionization of Wal-Mart China
In August 1996, Wal-Mart Stores opened its first Supercenter and Sam’s Club in Shenzhen, China. The entrance signaled Wal-Mart’s interest in China as not only a producer market, but also an emerging consumer market. As of December 2007, Wal-Mart has 243 stores in China and holds a 35% share of the Taiwanese Trust-Mart brand. (PDF)

U.S. and China Lose in the Wal-Mart Economy
Wal-Mart’s history of importing cheap goods from China and other countries, where labor costs are low and safety and environmental regulations are lax has a detrimental effect on the citizens of both the U.S. and China. (PDF)

Rhetoric v. Reality: A Brief Holiday "Success" Cannot Mask Wal-Mart’s Pattern of Failures
Despite some random, recent assertions that Wal-Mart is on the right track and may outperform Target for the 2007 holiday season, Wal-Mart’s business model remains unsustainable. (PDF)

Cutting Corners: Wal-Mart's "Improved" 2008 Health Care Offering Falls Short
Despite widespread criticism of the strategy outlined in her memo and Wal-Mart’s denial of plans to implement such a strategy, Wal-Mart is following Susan Chambers’ advice. (PDF)

Sacred Lands: Wal-Mart's Relationship with Native Americans
Over the years, Wal-Mart has built stores on sacred land and discriminated against Native American employees. This fact sheet examines Wal-Mart's relationship with Native Americans, both in its stores and in its development practices. (PDF)

Congressional Toy Safety Hearings: Where's Wal-Mart?
As Congressional hearings commence to investigate the dangerous Chinese toy recalls, the House and Senate are calling some of the industry’s largest players to testify about their roles in the process. (PDF)

Wal-Mart's Critical Role in Toy Safety
Wal-Mart sells more toys than any other retailer, importing them from countries with lax oversight policies through manufacturers under pressure to keep prices - and quality - low. Wal-Mart has a history of consumer safety deception, and its current toy safety procedures do not go far enough. (PDF)

Wal-Mart's Global Labor Violations
Over the past few years, the retailer has accumulated a bevy of sweatshops to produce cheap goods at the cost of exploited labor. (PDF)

Is Wal-Mart Really A 'Green' Company?
While Wal-Mart has taken some commendable steps forward during the past year, the company has a long way to go to reverse the damage it has inflicted and show it is serious about its environmental efforts.  (PDF)

Wal-Mart's Stalled GLBT Policies
Information on Wal-Mart's health benefits, discrimination policy and corporate behavior towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered employees. (PDF)

Consumer Safety at Wal-Mart
As the world’s largest company and the nation’s leading grocer, Wal-Mart’s actions have a tremendous impact on the health and safety of Americans. (PDF)

Wal-Mart's Flat Same-Store Sales
Wal-Mart's dwindling same-store sales are about far more than the weather. (PDF)

Importing Danger
How Wal-Mart's Massive Imports From China Threaten America's Food Supply (PDF)

Wal-Mart and Hazardous Waste
Every Wal-Mart store uses and sells items with hazardous chemical ingredients. Wal-Mart is currently under investigation in California and Nevada for failing to dispose of these materials correctly. (PDF)

Wal-Mart: Opposed to Country of Origin Labeling
Wal-Mart, the largest grocer in the world, opposes legislation that would require food to be labeled with its country of origin. (PDF)

The Wal-Mart Fake Blog Controversy
Anatomy of a Public Relations Disaster (PDF)