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Omaha Steve

(99,662 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 06:22 PM Dec 2012

BREAKING NEWS!! NEW EVIDENCE REVEALS WALMART ORDERS FROM BANGLADESH TRAGEDY


http://www.corporateactionnetwork.org/2012/12/5/breaking-news-new-evidence-reveals-walmart-orders-from-bangladesh-tragedy




Newly uncovered evidence from the Tazreen factory, site of the devastating fire that killed over 100 garment workers on November 24 in Bangladesh, is causing Walmart some headaches. The evidence, described in reports from The New York Times' Steven Greenhouse, shows that product orders were placed not just by one supplier, but through multiple purchasers on Walmart’s behalf over the course of the past year.


The Corporate Action Network has acquired the original documents and makes them available here for the first time. Here's one of the incriminating pages:



You can see the documents we obtained from a Bangladeshi garment worker yourself by clicking here PDF: http://corporateactionnetwork.org/uploads/887/original/docs-Tazreen-Walmart.pdf



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FULL story at link.

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K&R Roland99 Dec 2012 #1
I just finished the book "Nickeled and Dimed" LittleGirl Dec 2012 #2

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)
2. I just finished the book "Nickeled and Dimed"
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 07:37 PM
Dec 2012

and it just re-confirmed my boycott of Wal-Mart for the past decade. I know it's an old book but thanks to DU, I picked it up finally and finished it today. I lived that life so nothing and I mean NOTHING she wrote was a big surprise to me.

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