The calls are worldwide—from Britain, Argentina, Germany, Canada, Mexico and all of North America. They’re ringing off the hook, and they’re telling the largest private employer in the world with over $10 billion in profits to Wake Up!
The UFCW’s WakeUpWalMart movement is getting the word out on Wal-Mart like never before. UFCW members are quite familiar with how the company lowers wages, ships jobs to countries where sweatshops and child labor are prevalent, and shifts its health care costs onto American taxpayers. Now all across North America, and around the world, workers and communities are joining together, taking action, and telling Wal-Mart it’s time to wake up and become a responsible corporate citizen.
You can help change Wal-Mart’s destructive impact on America. WakeUpWalMart is bringing together workers, civil rights, women’s and religious groups, community members, and elected leaders across the country to reform America’s largest corporation and make sure it reflects America’s values.
Go to the campaign’s online clearing house at www.wakeupwalmart.com to learn all the facts about how Wal-Mart hurts America. Check out the WakeUpWalMart blog to find out what community members and activists are saying about Wal-Mart. Join the growing national network of volunteers and leaders helping to build the campaign to change Wal-Mart—and all workplaces—for the better.
Wal-Mart’s “Union Project”
A U.S. Attorney is conducting an investigation sparked by allegations from Wal-Mart’s former # 2 executive, Tom Coughlin, that the company conducted an illegal “union project” to deny workers their democratic right to exercise a free choice for a voice on the job. The alleged project appears to have involved an illegal slush fund out of which Wal-Mart employees were bribed to speak out against organizing with the UFCW.
In previous cases brought before the National Labor Relations Board, Wal-Mart has been found guilty of illegally spying on, firing, coercing and intimidating workers.
If this latest allegation is true, it would constitute a criminal offense. For the complete story, go to www.wakeupwalmart.com.
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