Wal-Mart’s Global Labor Violations

From China to Bangladesh to the Dominican Republic, Wal-Mart’s record of labor violations is abysmally high. And their audits of factories, due to tricks factory owners pull to conceal real working conditions, are neither successful in stemming the problem, nor address its root: the economic pressure Wal-Mart puts on suppliers to slash prices to the bone, resulting in low wages, excessive overtime and physical abuse and thwarting workers’ attempt to unionize. A recent story in the Guardian UK documented many of these abuses in Bangladeshi supplier factories, while a Human Rights Watch letter points out Wal-Mart’s neglect of the labor rights of its domestic U.S. workforce even as media attention focuses abroad.

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