The Real Facts About Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart spends millions trying to silence its critics through elaborate marketing plans.
We can't let Bentonville hide the truth about their company: these are the REAL facts about Wal-Mart.
Walmart Associates make less than comparable retail employees. With some of the biggest profits in the world, Walmart can do better by its people.
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Walmart's health care is not good quality or affordable. Thousands of associates qualify for Medicaid and other publicly subsidized care programs.
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Walmart’s entry into an area depresses wages and displaces better-paying retail jobs, forcing small local businesses to close.
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Your taxes may be going to help Walmart's profits by paying for subsidies and cover Walmart's use of tax loopholes to avoid paying state taxes.
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Traffic congestion, noise and air pollution, and multiple thousands of tractor trailer trips a year.
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Walmart has left vacant, abandoned stores throughout the country. Blight used to be an urban, industrial issue but Walmart has introduced to to communities across America.
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International NGO Human Rights Watch calls Walmart “a case study of what is wrong with American labor law.”
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According to The New York Times, the wage and hour law violation lawsuits include allegations Walmart forced "employees to work unpaid off the clock, eras[ed] hours from time cards and prevent[ed] workers from taking lunch and other breaks that were promised by the company or guaranteed by state laws."
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The largest class action lawsuit in the history of the world alleges that Walmart discriminated against women by systematically denying them promotions and paying them less than men.
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