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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1432)11/14/2003 12:14:50 AM
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Wal-Mart: outlaw at home and in China
Archive Recent Editions 2003 Editions Nov 15, 2003
Author: Scott Marshall
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 11/13/03 11:59


Opinion

Wal-Mart is an outlaw. It is also the largest retailer in the world and the largest private employer in the world. It is financially larger than Switzerland and employs more than eight times the number of troops Bush has deployed in Iraq.

The recent news of INS raids on undocumented workers cleaning Wal-Mart stores revealed the company’s common practice of illegally not paying overtime to immigrant workers forced to toil long hours under brutal conditions. While the INS raids are despicably in tune with the Bush/Ashcroft assault on civil liberties and workers’ rights, they also highlight the criminal nature of Wal-Mart’s corporate dealings with labor. And as all of U.S. labor knows, this is only the surface of the many illegal, anti-union practices of Wal-Mart.

But Wal-Mart is not just a criminal in the U.S. It is also guilty of breaking labor law in China. In China, unions are protected by labor law. Chinese labor law mandates that if any workers request a union the company must recognize the union and agree to negotiate a labor contract.

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