Working Life

   The world of the Beast of Bentonville is all abuzz with news of various kinds–not the kind of news that is fuzzy and warm to living creatures everywhere (a friend of mine says I should write more positive things…okay, I’ll try…he obviously didn’t read my recent baseball riff). So, where do we start? How […]

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   My first reaction looking at the grim news all around–say, that American is going to cut 7,000 jobs by the end of the year–was to write about the litany of awful crap coming down on workers around the country. But, it being the day before Independence Day (and, as a result, yours truly gets […]

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   I’m going to have more to say on this topic in the coming days. There has been a controversy brewing in the past couple of days while I’ve been out of pocket (sort of) and here’s the upshot: WASHINGTON — Labor union officials and some liberal activists were seething Tuesday over Barack Obama’s choice […]

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    Not something we should be thrilled to hear: Imagine Houston being populated only by Wal-Mart workers. Houston proper, with its population of just over 2 million, has about the same number of people as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. now employs worldwide. Put another way, if a city had only families of four and one member […]

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    Almost three years ago, I wrote about James Lynn, a whistle-blower who worked for Wal-Mart and exposed the Beast’s exploitation of workers in Central America. Wal-Mart fired Lynn, claiming he had engaged in improper "fraternization" with a colleague. A couple of days ago, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled in Wal-Mart’s favor: The Arkansas […]

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    Here’s another sign that the economy is worsening. Even though oil prices are at record highs and people are paying more for gasoline, the trade deficit dropped in December. Today’s on-line Wall Street Journal reports, based on data released by the Commerce Department: The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in December despite a record […]

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    Here’s another sign that the economy is worsening. Even though oil prices are at record highs and people are paying more for gasoline, the trade deficit dropped in December. Today’s on-line Wall Street Journal reports, based on data released by the Commerce Department: The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in December despite a record […]

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    It never ends. The Beast of Bentonville is now after kids in Mexico.     The folks at Wal-Mart Watch are working on this. And there was a story in Newsweek.     I wonder: would the Waltons of Wal-Mart do this to their children, grandkids, nieces or cousins? Or is just too easy to exploit […]

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    It never ends. The Beast of Bentonville is now after kids in Mexico.     The folks at Wal-Mart Watch are working on this. And there was a story in Newsweek.     I wonder: would the Waltons of Wal-Mart do this to their children, grandkids, nieces or cousins? Or is just too easy to exploit […]

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  These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]

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