New Orleans The largest company and largest employer in the world is of course Arkansas’ own, Wal-Mart. The business model has a lot of elements — low prices, low wages, large supply, convenience to customers, are among them — but another one is the need to constantly expand whether that means opening 300 or more …
Category: WalMart
Organizing the Biggest and Baddest — the Wal-Mart Challenge
New Orleans: As the debate concerning labor’s future rages on, prodded by Andy Stern, International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and answered by one union after another, President Sweeney has agreed on the need for debate and the need to form committees to discuss the various proposals generated. Workers in general and union …
Santa Fe Supercenter
Santa Fe: An e-mail trail started with Jim Gollin from the Rain Forest Action Network and moved from a friend to a friend to a friend and an invitation to come visit with activists forming a coalition with serious questions about a Wal-Mart proposal to locate a nearly 150,000 square feet Supercenter in the City of …