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BloombergBy Adriana Arai
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Protesters picketed a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City to show support for employees who are trying to form a union at the company, the nation's largest employer.
The protesters, who included labor activists and union members from other industries, urged shoppers to boycott Wal- Mart for the day. Wal-Mart de Mexico SAB, two-thirds owned by Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has about 160,000 workers in the country.
``Wal-Mart in Mexico is no different from Wal-Mart in the U.S.,'' said Maria Pantoja, a Mexico City representative of Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based group that is helping local workers organize. She said the company pays low wages and drives small shops out of business with its low prices.
``They're missing the point,'' said Antonio Ocaranza, communications director for Wal-Mart de Mexico, as he looked at the protesters handing out pamphlets at Plaza Universidad, in southern Mexico City. ``We create jobs, we pay taxes, we compensate our workers better than average.''
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