Wal-Mart
is a threat to your job, wages and benefits. It is a threat to working
America 's standard of living. Wal-Mart employs more people than any company
in America - with 1.4 million employees and profits of over $10 billion
last year. Wal-Mart's low-wages and inadequate benefits drag down wages
and conditions for all working Americans. Now, Wal-Mart has set its sights
on the supermarket industry. With their new Neighborhood Markets, Wal-Mart
is out to turn good jobs with good benefits into low-wage jobs with inadequate
benefits.
WAL-MART
DESTROYS JOBS: Wal-Mart doesn't create jobs, it destroys them. Studies
show that for every two jobs created by a Wal-Mart store, the community
loses three. Local businesses are destroyed and community living standards
get lowered when Wal-Mart moves into the neighborhood. A
new report from the non-profit Good Jobs First uncovers $1 billion in
tax subsidies to Wal-Mart. Click here to read the report.
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Posted by ufcw227 updated 3/28/2006
Wal-Mart's Call for Universal Health Care
Statement by Joseph T. Hansen, International President UFCW Union on Wal-Mart's Call for Universal Health Care
Washington DC—The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) supports universal, affordable and quality health care coverage. The UFCW believes that we need to build a broad-based coalition to bring about health care reform. And we applaud everyone, management and labor, that calls for universal care.
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Join America's Campaign to Change Wal-Mart
Do you want to be a part of the fastest, most exciting grassroots campaign to change a corporation in history?
With over 185,000 supporters, WakeUpWalMart.com is building a movement to stand up to Wal-Mart, the largest employer in America with $312 billion in sales, and to make Wal-Mart a responsible corporation that reflects our values.
In anticipation of our one year anniversary and in the spirit of March Madness, we have launched an online tournament for change to sign up 200,000 supporters. Will you please join me in this campaign and help us reach our goal by signing up today? Click here to sign up.
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Posted by UFCW 3/28/2006
Wal-Mart Bank Bill in National Spotlight Rep. Gleason appears on CNBC
GRAND RAPIDS - State Representative John Gleason captured the national spotlight for introducing legislation (HB 5884) designed to prohibit Wal-Mart from establishing Michigan branches of a financial institution it seeks to form in Utah. UFCW 951 President Bob Potter of the United Food & Commercial Workers and Gleason collaborated on the legislation that was the subject of Gleason's appearance this morning on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
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Posted by UFCW 3/23/2006
Wake Up Wal-Mart Campaign
The UFCW launched a new grassroots, community-based campaign to wake up Wal-Mart.The campaign's website www.WakeupWalMart.com " and the campaign's blog http://blog.WakeUpWalmart.com" will be at the center of this new grassroots movement that will lead and revolutionize the national fight to change Wal-Mart.
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Did You Know... Nearly half of Wal-Mart's U.S. employees leave the company each year. That’s more than a half-million people every year! Learn Why Wal-Mart Needs to Change
Did You Know... Women make up 72% of Wal-Mart’s hourly workforce but account for only 33% of managers and only 15% of store managers. Learn Why Wal-Mart Needs to Change
Posted by UFCW 03/28/2006
A lot More To Come
