Faith: Wal-Mart Watch’s Faith Community

Wal-Mart's management knows how to provide low prices to its customers, but just how much does it consider its greater moral and ethical obligation to ensure fairness and justice to suppliers, customers, and employees alike? Wal-Mart's powerful PR machine attempts to set forth the image of a benevolent, family-friendly force for good. To the contrary, Wal-Mart disregards basic human rights through its discriminatory business practices, exploits the environment through its large-scale win-at-all-cost mentality, and fails to address the health care needs of many of its employees.

The evidence that Wal-Mart is a contributor to the social problems of our world is quite clear. One can look around the world and see the ways in which Wal-Mart negatively tramples upon national economies from China to Chile. While we may take fleeing satisfaction in Wal-Mart's ability to usher in low prices for the everyday products we purchase, the corporate giant simultaneously ushers in an age of economic subterfuge in the long run. We in the faith community find that Wal-Mart has an ethical and moral dilemma on its hands, one that can only be rectified when we lift our voices and issue a clarion call for Wal-Mart to return to just ways of conducting business, ensuring fairness and equality to consumers, suppliers, and workers worldwide. Wal-Mart's trademark phrase, "Save Money, Live Better" cannot stay true for all peoples when its avenues of productions are also avenues of injustice. All religions believe in justice, and justice is only relevant when all individuals are seen with significance and inherent value and not as chattels of the corporate machine.

the aims of our faith community

Faith Based Coalition

• Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
• Universal Health Care Action Network
• Interfaith Worker Justice
• Clergy Strategic Alliances
• Sojourners

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