Join me in protesting Wal-Mart Monday!

[srpantalonas]

Details
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=4650

Why?
Wal-Mart doesn't sell much of anything made in Amerca, while US manufacturing jobs go to China

Wal-Mart is China's single biggest customer. US trade deficit with China is $130 billion this year, equal to a third of the auto industry in jobs

Wal-Mart does not pay a living wage. Employees get low wages with few health benefits

Wal-Mart fires anyone trying to organize or unionize

Wal-Mart doesn't hire women for management positions while over 78% of Wal-Mart employees are women.

Wal-Mart drives small business out of business
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I'll be in Philly at the Columbus Blvd location, 12 noon. I really hope some DUers can make it!

Thanks,

Charlie Crystle
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[JanMichael]

1. Great! Is this the start of a nationwide campaign?

Are you coordinating with the SEIU?

Wish I could be there and will do the same in my area (will be moving soon) once I get settled in.

Bread AND Roses!

[srpantalonas]

3. AFLCIO & Penn Man. Association :Labor and Manufacturers Together!

SEIU is expected to be out...

[prisonerseven]

2. I have to work and can't make it

I wish I could take the time off needed to attend all the protests that happen daily out there.

[LatteLib]

4. Walmart boycott

I told my husband that I intended to boycott Walmart just before Thanksgiving. We haven't shopped there since and we don't miss it a bit. We live in a small town and Walmart is the most convenient store for us as far as location but it hasn't been all that inconvenient to drive a mile or so farther and do our shopping.
I have felt good since we started our little personal boycott and I believe my husband is possibly even more pleased than me. I told my extended family about my decision to boycott and they have decided to follow suit this holiday season too. I think my brother in law even considered it somewhat of a holiday gift since he has personally boycotted Walmart since I can remember because of their non union policies.
I hope more people will follow us because Walmart has crushed so many small businesses.
Happy Holidays!

[alcuno]

6. Hi IndianaDem!

I make sure I tell everyone I know that I am boycotting WalMart and why. It feels really good, doesn't it?

[LatteLib]

21. Yes, it feels good

I realize I make a minute dent in their consumers but, it was pleasing when my family joined in on the boycott with me. The other stores that use union labor to build them and offer better wages to their employees deserve my money and patronage.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi IndianaDem!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[LatteLib]

22. Thank you for your welcome, Newyawker

I have been here at DU for a while, I just haven't posted often.

[LatteLib]

5. Forgot to mention

I don't live near your area but, keeping our money out of their pockets is the way we felt we could help.

[RebelOne]

9. Yes, I live way south, but I don't shop at Wal-Mart.

And there is one almost around the corner from my house.

[blondeatlast]

7. If you can't be there, here's an idea

http://www.sendcoaltowalmart.com/sendcoal.htm

Send a lump of coal to Wal-Mart for Christmas . . .

I haven't shopped at WM for years, for many reasons. The word on their immorality is slowly getting out, let's keep up the pressure. If Nike can bow, so can Wal-Mart.

Pretty soon, there will be 3 places to shop. Where is the fun in that?

Edit: it's free, too. You can even choose the style of lump . . .

[tnlefty]

12. thanks for the link....that was kinda fun

and even more fun to let him know that I haven't shopped in WallyWorld for the past 5 yrs.

[funkyflathead]

8. I'd boycott Wal-mart.......

but the local black community loves to shop there. I shop at Wal-mart occasionally.

Boycotting W-M just hurts poor people and minorities IMHO.

[blondeatlast]

11. In Phoenix (my area), only K-mart is in the poor communities.

I've never had much of a problem with K-mart.

They have closed down many stores around here, including the longstanding one that was located in one of the poorest areas of central Phoenix.

Wal-Mart builds their stores in nothing but middle class areas here; the wealthy unite to fight the "big boxes," and Wal-Mart isn't interested in building in poor areas.

I despise Wal-Mart.

[srpantalonas]

13. The poor, Wal-Mart,and the living wage

The Wal-Mart economy is creating more poor by killing good quality manufacturing jobs and replacing them with low-wage, low-quality jobs. Like Wal-Mart jobs. Yes, it's nice to have cheap products, but not when the prices are illegally low in the first place. They make us poor and then make the argument that we need cheap goods because we're poor. Right.

Wal-Mart makes over $7 billion in NET profit every year. If they were to take half of that and give it to their employees through wages, they would finally be paying a living wage. Buying at WalMArt supports their exploitation, supports the downward spiral of chasing the cheapest price, and supports the disintegration of the American family--poor or not.

[Nobody]

15. And we all pay for this

when the workers have to apply for food stamps and subsidized housing and emergency room health care.

If Wal Mart (and other sweatshop wanna-bes like them) would do the right thing, we'd be needing to provide less subsidies to the working poor and can put this already-allocated time and money to helping jobless people get jobs.

A living wage is the right of all working people. If working people aren't valued enough to be paid enough to live on, it encourages people to stay home and collect welfare.

Why should I have to work my ass off and still be unable to pay the rent?

This is a valid question, and deserves a better answer than: But you're unskilled and your labor isn't worth that much.

[srpantalonas]

24. or skilled, laid off, and no longer wanted

that's the bigger problem. The woman with a degree in software development working at the checkout line, or the guy in the back with 25 years experience as a machinist making custom machinery for the factory lines now closed.

The number of skilled workers working in shit jobs--"under-employment" is at very high levels, perhaps the highest. But I can't FIND ANY DATA on underemployment--nobody is tracking it as far as I can tell...

[Nikia]

17. I don't think their in danger of going under

If they lose a significant number of customers and are told why, perhaps they will rethink some of their practices. They do what they do because they can.

[RBHam]

10. Wage Slave Freedom

http://members.shaw.ca/rb.ham/articles/02-01-05-walmart.htm

[cirej2000]

16. What the heck. I'm finished X-Mas shopping for the year!

I'll Join You...MAYBE! And that's a definite MAYBE!

[wanderingbear]

18. I dont buy from them in the first place..

They sell cheep plastic junk that falls apart 2 months after you buy it..

[Myra]

19. srpantalonas, I am so there in spirit!

Though I'm on the West Coast in body.

I will boycott WalMart, and fight the WalMartization of America,
forever.

Good luck in Philly. Please report back. And send me a cheesteak
from Jim's...

[wanderingbear]

20. Lets add Safeway to this list..

And most of the rest of the Service industry as well.. They all do things like this to keep their prices low..

[JCMach1]

23. No problem....

There are none here!!!!!!!!!!!!


Carrefour rules!