Tell Wal-Mart: Zero Tolerance on Child Labor simple e action

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/167618744?z00m=9403555<l=1165838041

Wal-Mart has repeatedly violated U.S. child labor laws and profited from overseas child labor abuses.

A recent investigation revealed children, some only 11 years old, were making Wal-Mart clothes in a Bangladesh factory. The children report being routinely slapped and beaten, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, often seven days a week, for wages as low as 6 and a half cents an hour.

In the United States, Wal-Mart's own internal audit found 1,371 instances in which minors worked too late at night, during school hours, or too many hours in a day. It also found 60,767 instances of workers missing breaks and 15,705 instances where employees were forced to work and miss meal times.

Despite all of this, Wal-Mart refuses to adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor! Our children deserve better from Wal-Mart. This holiday season, tell Wal-Mart to adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor.



* Signatures: 12,792
* Goal: 20,000
* Deadline: Ongoing...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Done

I saw a French video of a child working in a factory making soccer balls. He stops work for a moment and dreams of being outdoors, kicking the ball...and is slapped on the head by the adult supervisor (slave driver?) and sadly goes back to work.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Yeah....but

they ARE greeting everyone with a hale and hearty, "merry christmas" upon entering their sweat-shop supporting buildings now. They've surrendered in the "war on christmas". That alone should make every American forget what vile, ruthless bastards they are. :sarcasm: