WAL-MART SUCKS: THE CONTINUING STORY
Poverty-level labor (legal and otherwise)
supports Wal-Mart's low-price slogan

Oakland theologian and activist Byron Williams via WorkingForChange:

Companies convicted of knowingly hiring undocumented individuals face fines of up to $10,000 per worker. This scarcely seems like a deterrent. The cynic in me believes some bean counter tucked away at the Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas determined that the profit generated from using cheap labor would substantially offset the $10,000 per individual fines if convicted.

Assuming that Wal-Mart was found guilty in all 300 cases, the fine would total $3 million, hardly an exorbitant amount for a company that boast half of Forbes Magazine's ten richest Americans.

The cleaning crews under investigation did not receive health insurance and were paid below minimum wage. Wal-Mart is known for precision in the retailing industry, from which items sell best in each region of the country to the most efficient manner of organizing sale items in order to maximize store profits. Are we really meant to believe that it has no idea that some of its workers are being paid what amounts to slave wages?

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