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"Wal-Mart is hurting working families in cash-strapped states by walking away with public money needed for emergency rooms and new schools," said Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win. "Wal-Mart has been cutting legal and ethical corners on our backs, and its time for responsible businesses to join working families in calling on Wal-Mart to change."
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Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! "They were using it as a 'statement' item," says Pat Hunn, who calls himself the "mad scientist" of Vlasic's gallon jar. "Wal-Mart was putting it before consumers, saying, This represents what Wal-Mart's about. You can buy a stinkin' gallon of pickles for $2.97. And it's the nation's number-one brand."
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Today, WakeUpWalMart.com, America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, launched a TV advertising campaign as part of a statewide grassroots mobilization effort calling on state legislators to override Governor Robert Ehrlich’s veto of Fair Share Health Care legislation. As part of the campaign, WakeUpWalmart.com ... released results from a new Zogby Poll confirming a clear majority of Marylanders believe Fair Share Health Care legislation should become law.
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Employees at a Wal-Mart in Windsor become first in North America to earn union certification with a division of the United Steelworkers of America (later a division of the Canadian Autoworkers Union). After lengthy legal and labour relations battles, the union local collapses, in 2000.
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Despite the fact that the United States has no similar law or directive which mandates the reduction of hazardous components in electronic devices, Wal-Mart has taken the initiative to campaign for environment-friendly computers. It hopes that by complying with the European directive, PC manufacturers would be encouraged to supply products which do not contain dangerous substances such as mercury, cadmium and lead. Beginning July 2006, the retail giant will only sell RoHS-compliant PCs.
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The pretend references that AWM's state don't even offer any real proof that Wal-Mart kills local business. All these 'studies' show is what businesses went out of business, no direct correlation for cause is shown. Yet AWM's see fit to manipulate these studies into something they can use to poo-poo Wal-Mart. Blame is put on Wal-Mart without a basis in facts.
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