Posts Tagged ‘Wal-Mart’
Wal-Mart Could Help Eliminate Poverty By Sharing The Wealth… With Its Own Employees (Video)
November 27, 2014
Heartbreaking letter from LaRanda Jackson, a 20-year-old Wal-Mart employee who posted it to Alice Walton (heiress to Sam Walton’s Wal-Mart empire) on Wal-Mart’s “Hunger Games” Tumblr page.
I’m writing to you because it hurts to see the pain in my younger brothers’ eyes when we can’t afford food to fill their stomachs. Sure, they see that I’m working hard, taking the bus an hour each way to get to work at Walmart. Even though they know that things are tight right now, that our mom is often too sick to work, they just can’t understand why last year on Thanksgiving they didn’t get turkey and gravy like other kids their age.
But hey, what can Alice do? How could she help? All she did was inherit tons (literally) of money. Well, Walton family, listen to activist economist Robert Reich (above).
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Tags: Black Friday, boycott, food drive, How 1.4M Americans Could Get a Raise Right Now, LaRanda Jackson, living wage, minimum wage, OUR Walmart, OURWalmart, poverty, poverty line, Protest, Robert Reich, starvation, Wal-Mart, Walmart | 
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Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor (Documentary)
March 19, 2014
President Obama is on board with BIG retailers like Amazon, driving economic renewal AND employing more and more people with American jobs that cannot be outsourced.
Yay… right? No.
Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high.
From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops, temps are hired to do some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs. While more and more of the American workforce is composed of temporary workers, they’re largely hidden from public view. Many of these workers stay silent, often having their livelihoods threatened if they speak out.
But that’s what VICE is best at doing: shedding light on shameful practices and telling the stories of people for whom it would be too dangerous to tell themselves. Damn shame that the largest corporations, time and again, ride the road to success on the backs of laborers with no regard to their interests or even their well-being… at all. Watch the documentary above. Learn.
Posted in Business, Human Interest, Politics, Series, Videos | Tags: Amazon, exploitation, labor, mega-retailers, Temp Agencies, Temp Labor, VICE, VICE News, Wal-Mart | No Comments »
