Up Against Wal-Mart. Karen Olsson.
by Olsson, Karen; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 43Business. Publisher: Mother Jones, 2003ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): 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 | Wal-Mart StoresDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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