Walmart
Strike at Walmart warehouses spreads
September 17, 2012Striking workers picketed the Walmart distribution center in Elwood, Illinois for the third day in a row this morning since they went on strike last Saturday.
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Labor tries new tactic after defeat at Walmart
June 25, 2012Civil rights groups and sympathetic lawmakers were prompted to draft legislation creating an alternative route for workers to get justice against Walmart.
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Shrimp workers exploited and enslaved at Walmart warehouse
May 9, 2012Two thousand shrimp workers from Cambodia and Myanmar suffered human rights abuses and indentured servitude at the hands of Walmart.
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Walmart ordered to pay $4.8 million in stolen overtime
May 2, 2012The announcement was made as the enormous retail chain - and its attack on labor - became a focus of the annual May Day march held here yesterday.
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Reverberations of Mexico Walmart scandal
April 30, 2012The accusations, which workers have leveled at the giant range from desecration of the important archeological site of Teotihuacan to the introduction of genetically-modified foods.
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