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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

Shameless: How Wal-Mart Bullies Its Way Into Communities Across America

Click here to downloadThis special report reviews Wal-Mart’s bullying tactics through a series of local case studies.  Using highly publicized examples like Inglewood,  California and Chicago, Illinois alongside less well-known stories from cities like Stoughton, Wisconsin and Lewiston, Maine, the findings reveal patterns: Wal-Mart’s use of local front groups, their reliance on a SWAT team of corporate mouthpieces, aggressive litigation tactics, outright bait-and-switches, and a trail of broken promises.  Today, as more American communities rise to fight back against the retail giant, this report offers a strategic map of the company’s tactics. From the introduction:

"As the world’s largest corporation, Wal-Mart – with billions in its deep pockets and an insatiable need for growth – behaves shamelessly in the way it forces itself on American communities. Its aggressive bullying of American communities occurs because Wal-Mart’s growth is central to its business model; it has to grow to sustain its profits, $10 billion in 2004 alone."

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