Wal-Mart Facts:
Wal-Mart employs approximately 720,000 people. Of that number,
A MAJORITY of them QUALIFY FOR FOOD STAMPS. Yes folks, you, me, all of us, are
providing welfare to a majority of Wal-Mart employees, and in essence to Wal-Mart
itself. That means that Wal-Mart is responsible for providing poverty level
wages to at least 360,000 workers, and their families...but the number is much
larger. And the figure includes not just part-time employees, but all full-time
employees, as well. Wal-Mart also provides NO affordable Health-Care. For every
job that Wal-Mart creates in a community it displaces from 2 to 5 existing jobs,
many that formerly provided benefits. Wal-Mart employs approximately 100,000
workers in other countries to manufacture goods sold in Wal-Mart stores. The
majority of those jobs qualify for sweatshop status. Much of it is forced labor,
such as in China. Of that 100,000, many are children. Wal-Mart gets special
tax-breaks in most of the cities that they move into, tax-breaks that are not
afforded the smaller "Mom & Pop" stores and other business that they eventually
run out of business. Many of the former business owners are then forced to go
to work for Wal-Mart for poverty level wages, with no benefits. Wal-Mart likes
to advertise its goods as "made in the USA". The truth is, most of their goods
are manufactured whole or in-part by sweatshop or forced-labor in other countries.
Any Wal-Mart employee who gets "caught" exploring "in any way" the possibility
of bringing a union into Wal-Mart is immediately fired. Only one Wal-Mart store
is unionized--that is in Canada where they have much stronger labor laws. Wal-Mart's
labor practices are, of course, against the law, and they have lost numerous
unfair labor suits brought against them by former employees--but they persist
in their practices. And now...Wal-Mart is planning to go into the grocery Super-Market
business, with the same business ethics and unfair labor practices that they
are famous for.