Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Indians Send Message to Wal-Mart: GO AWAY!
Indian Retailers Take To Streets Against Wal-Mart
They've been watching what Wal-Mart does in American towns and they want to avoid suffering the same fate.
I wish them good luck in their battle.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, India, protest, march
Monday, May 21, 2007
Students Learn About Wal-Mart's Business Ethics
They've been watching what Wal-Mart does in American towns and they want to avoid suffering the same fate.
I wish them good luck in their battle.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, India, protest, march
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Wal-Mart catches ire of high school students after they learn about Wal-Mart's long tradition of mistreating employees and abusing supply chains for profits. The students were so moved that they staged a protest on the Wal-Mart site and were even threatened with the police but stood their ground, completed their protest without incident and made their point.
And, before anyone says the sweat shops aren't under Wal-Mart's direct control, don't be fooled. If Wal-Mart wanted them to pay more and treat those workers more fairly, they most certainly could. Hell, they forced Vlasic to sell their pickles at a friggin' loss!WalMart
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Wal-Mart Cheats the Law to Get Into India
Plevy said she was most concerned with the company’s relationships with alleged sweat shops in India, China and Bangladesh. According to her study, suppliers in Bangla Desh pay workers 6-cents an hour; in China, they get 7-cents an hour; in Nicaragua, the pay is $23 cents an hour and in Swaziland, the workers get 53 cents an hour.Which is to say that they may be exploiting neighborhoods here at home but they are also doing more than their part to guarantee the third world stays in the third world by paying such ridiculously low wages.
And, before anyone says the sweat shops aren't under Wal-Mart's direct control, don't be fooled. If Wal-Mart wanted them to pay more and treat those workers more fairly, they most certainly could. Hell, they forced Vlasic to sell their pickles at a friggin' loss!WalMart
Labels: protest, student, sweatshop
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Wal-Mart Cheats the Law to Get Into India
Protests Greet Wal-Mart In India
Also, you'll read about FDI in the article and its not explained, FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment. And Wal-Mart's backdoor entry into India is an end-around of policy regulations intended to keep multinationals from preying on the soft Indian economy.
Oh yeah, before anyone gets all flustered that the link is to the Communist Party of India, the link goes to the People's Democracy site which is the news outlet for the Communist Party in India. Get over it. Communism isn't evil.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, India, protest, union
"Wal-Mart is the biggest monopoly retailer in the world which is infamous for its pathetic record of violating labour laws, union-busting, displacing small retailers and exploiting small producers of manufactured and agricultural commodities. Its entry into India, which would invariably be followed by the other multinational retailers like TESCO and Carrefour, would monopolise the retail market in India in their hands causing harmful effects to all sections of the people. It would cause large scale displacement of small retailers and squeezing of domestic manufacturers and farmers. Expansion of the Wal-Mart chains has caused massive closure of small stores and pauperisation of poor communities even in the United States."Yep, even in the USA, Wal-Mart has caused massive harm to small stores and does a really superb bang-up job of pooring down communities. And that quote does a really good job of summing up what it is that Wal-Mart inflicts on localities and states that allow them to land there.
Also, you'll read about FDI in the article and its not explained, FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment. And Wal-Mart's backdoor entry into India is an end-around of policy regulations intended to keep multinationals from preying on the soft Indian economy.
Oh yeah, before anyone gets all flustered that the link is to the Communist Party of India, the link goes to the People's Democracy site which is the news outlet for the Communist Party in India. Get over it. Communism isn't evil.
Tags: Wal-Mart, WalMart, India, protest, union
Labels: India, protest, wal-mart