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Supply Chain Workers Tell Walmart’s Dirty Secrets
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2013/04/supply-chain-workers-tell-walmart%E2%80%99s-dirty-secrets
April 23, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Workers all along Walmart's supply chain, from factory to store, marched to Walmart board member Michele Burns' residence in downtown Manhattan April 18 with a letter asking for compensation for the Tazreen fire victims and demanding that Walmart sign a fire-safety agreement with Bangladeshi unions. Photo: Jenny Brown.
Walmart has cut store staffing so severely that in some cases workers have no time to stock shelves, and the few remaining checkers face customers whove been waiting in line for 30 minutes.
Thats just the newest symptom of Walmarts profit-at-any-cost policies, which create miserable conditions along the companys whole supply chain, said Walmart workers who compared notes Thursday in New York.
They gathered to remember 112 garment workers who died in the Tazreen Fashion factory fire near Dhaka, Bangladesh, last November. About 100 marched to the house of Walmart board member Michele Burns with a letter asking for compensation for the victims and demanding that Walmart sign a fire-safety agreement with Bangladeshi unions.
Police and building security prevented delivery of the letter, so workers, including Sumi Abedin, a young survivor of the fire, stood outside in the dusk, reading the names of the dead and holding a series of long, black, coffin-shaped signs that spelled W-A-L-M-A-R-T.
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Supply Chain Workers Tell Walmart’s Dirty Secrets (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2013
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femmocrat
(28,394 posts)1. K & R
The latest tragedy in Bangladesh (this week) will continue to shine a glaring light on Walmart and other clothing retailers who contract sweatshop labor.
Check out this link for a list of some of the clothing labels: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11172632
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)2. K&R nt
antigop
(12,778 posts)3. K & r nt
bluemarkers
(536 posts)4. target?
Target can't be much better, How is it they are dodging bad press?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)5. ''It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.'' ~Krishnamurti
- K&R
tblue
(16,350 posts)7. Oh gosh, that's so applicable
to this and a whole lot of other stuff. I would list examples but I don't feel like depressing myself today. My heart needs a break.
Omaha Steve
(99,602 posts)6. It isn't offent a labor post makes it to the trending now on the front page
THANK YOU!