[middie]

Below is a list of states in which employees are successfully complaining of the exploitive and unlawful pratices harmful to the Walmart hourly labor force: CO, CA, MN, MA, WA, NM, MO, KS and a couple of others I don't recall. There are several federal grand jury and labor dept. investigations relative to Walmart's practices.

Walmart's so-called, ''Made in America'' campaign was a fraud. The ''American'' manufacturing venues were Pacific islands, U.S. protectorates, where they imported thousands, upon thousands of Chinese and other Asian indentured, confined, necessitious workers to whom they paid a mere few cents per hour and whose paycheck went back to Walmart for their meager food, slum, barrack-style housing and disgraceful living conditions. A retrogression to the 'company store' of the Robber Baron days of the 1880s railroad construction across the U.S.

In theory, U.S. labor and minimum wage laws are supposed to apply on those islands. In practice, they don't and Walmart took advantange of the absence of the labor law enforcement as they appled ''Made in the USA'' tag on the product you bought thinking you were supporting the American economy.

[Alberta's Child]

Let's assume that everything you've said there is true. Are you going to make the case that none of Wal-Mart's competitors engage in these kinds of practices?

[ridesthemiles]

When Sam Walton was alive, the "Made in USA" was solid.
When he passed, the suits changed to the best prices they could get wherever.

[MarkL]

And while I'm a supporter of "business" in general, I hope that if employees that claim that they were forced to work "off the clock" by their supervisors to cut costs are able to prove it, I hope that Walmart is hammered by the courts. I would wish that the vast majority of any awards would go to the injured workers, but I realize that those suits are files as "class action," which is another definition of "the lawyers get rich, and a pittance goes to the injured."

Mark

[hinckley buzzard]

A retrogression to the 'company store' of the Robber Baron days of the 1880s railroad construction across the U.S.

The railoads were built by capitalists who had to deal with corrupt politicians in order to achieve their goals. "Robber barons" were people who did well by building the nation, in an era of no income tax, and many, such as JP Morgan, were highly ethical. The "company store" belongs to the mining industry not the railroads. Nice try though, and thanks for playing.