Mumbai Reena Desai has been heading up ACORN’s efforts in Mumbai for the last three months to build a grassroots campaign around the impacts of opening up Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail in India (www.indiafdiwatch.org) which would allow Wal-Mart, Shoprite, Metro, Carrefour, and other huge multi-nationals (MNC’s as they call them here) to entire …
Category: WalMart
Wal-Mart’s Working Families of America
New Orleans Sometimes it is scary how smart Wal-Mart seems to be. Reading about them moving cheap shots and vaccinations into their stores with a partner, just seems brilliant! But, then it turns out that they will also still go “old school” and flip back a few chapters to Mr. Sam’s book, and do something …
People versus Pancakes
Tampa The Wal-Mart Workers Association has been visible, vocal, and vehement for almost 9 months in the Tampa Bay and Orlando area about the fact that schedules are killing the workforce. On one hand our members are not getting enough hours of work to afford to live and on the other the workers are being …