Olsson, Karen,
Up Against Wal-Mart. Karen Olsson. - Mother Jones, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 43, Business, 1522-3191; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Up Against Wal-Mart, March/April 2003; pp. 54-59.
"Complaints about understaffing and low pay are not uncommon among retail workers--but Wal-Mart is no mere peddler of saucepans and boom boxes. The company is the world's largest retailer, with $220 billion in sales, and the nation's largest private employer, with 3,372 stores and more than 1 million hourly workers. Its annual revenues account for 2 percent of America's entire domestic product. Even as the economy has slowed, the company has continued to metastasize, with plans to add 800,000 more jobs worldwide by 2007." (MOTHER JONES) This article details how "thousands of former and current" Wal-Mart employees are "angered by the disparity between profits and wages" and are starting "to fight the company on a variety of fronts."
1522-3191;
Wal-Mart Stores
Actions and defenses
Employee fringe benefits
Equal pay for equal work
Insurance--Health--Costs
Labor unions--Organizing
Overtime
Pay equity
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in employment
AC1.S5
050
Up Against Wal-Mart. Karen Olsson. - Mother Jones, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 43, Business, 1522-3191; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Up Against Wal-Mart, March/April 2003; pp. 54-59.
"Complaints about understaffing and low pay are not uncommon among retail workers--but Wal-Mart is no mere peddler of saucepans and boom boxes. The company is the world's largest retailer, with $220 billion in sales, and the nation's largest private employer, with 3,372 stores and more than 1 million hourly workers. Its annual revenues account for 2 percent of America's entire domestic product. Even as the economy has slowed, the company has continued to metastasize, with plans to add 800,000 more jobs worldwide by 2007." (MOTHER JONES) This article details how "thousands of former and current" Wal-Mart employees are "angered by the disparity between profits and wages" and are starting "to fight the company on a variety of fronts."
1522-3191;
Wal-Mart Stores
Actions and defenses
Employee fringe benefits
Equal pay for equal work
Insurance--Health--Costs
Labor unions--Organizing
Overtime
Pay equity
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in employment
AC1.S5
050