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Supplement:
Walmart: Hi Cost of Low Price
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| Segment 1: Walmart Out-Competes Main Street |
15:05 minutes |
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- Project: Video:
Walmart:
The High Cost of Low Prices: Segment 1: Walmart Out Competes
Main Street |
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A case study on H & H Hardware in Middlefield, OH illustrates how
overwhelming corp power out competes small town main street |
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Monopolization |
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Decline of middle America & small business |
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Decline of H & H Hardware |
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Sell out of H & H Hardware |
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Springsteen on the decline of main street |
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| Segment 2: Walmart's Human Relations |
9:53 minutes |
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Walmart's on employee benefits have been notoriously weak |
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Medical Benefits |
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Wkrs have illness in the family |
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The Walmart employee health insurance plan is not available to most
wkrs |
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State subsidies |
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Aiding the poor |
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Walmart encourages its wkrs to use govt social safety net of welfare,
food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid, & more |
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Little or no employee benefits allows Walmart to offer low prices |
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3. Walmart & the Labor Movement
20 minutes |
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- Project: Video:
Walmart:
Factors Affecting Success & Decline of the Labor Movement |
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- Project: Video:
Walmart:
Envl Factors affecting Union Avoidance |
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No Walmart has ever been successfully unionized |
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The Tire Lube Express (TLE) wkr has low wages & benefits &
few raises |
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Labor organizer |
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A Walmart mgr notes that if he received any indication that there was
an interest in the union he was to take immediate action which included
calling corporate headquarters |
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At the first sign of union interest by wkrs, Walmart dispatches a 3
person anti union team which includes a camera surveillance package for
the store which surveils employee areas of the store, a 'spy van', a hotline
for wkrs to report union activities, & more |
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One of Walmart's tactics against unions is to instruct mgrs on how
to profile potential union leaders & members |
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Picket line |
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Walmart wkrs are inundated w/ sophisticated anti union propaganda including
professionally produced videos |
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Walmart often freezes the wages of any store showing union interest
under the pretext that 'they do not want to appear to be bribing the wkrs
to resist a union' |
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Wage freezes at Walmart in stores showing union interest create anger
btwn wkrs, some who blame each other for what the corp does to them |
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Wkrs at Walmart who blame other wkrs for anti union tactics such as
wage freezes or even closing stores is an example of false consciousness
since it is corp activity, not wkr activity which is against the wkrs'
interests |
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Undocumented workers are widely employed by Walmart |
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Gender & race discrimination is a serious problem at Walmart |
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Woman have encountered a glass ceiling at Walmart |
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4. Walmart & Subsidies
15:34 minutes |
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IGA Store |
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Subsidies for Walmart |
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5. Outsourcing: Walmart's Globalized Supplier Network
16 minutes |
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Some people view Walmart as a consumer products outlet service for
China |
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Comments on Chinese govt |
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Walmart has created 158 mm jobs world wide |
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Bangladesh |
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Walmart mgr speaks on factory exploitation |
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Wages of workers & mgrs |
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6. Crime at Walmart
10 minutes |
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Walmart does not address crime on it's premises |
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Assault |
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Lack of prevention |
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Attracting crime |
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7. Walmart & Social Movements: Organized Opposition
to Walmart 9
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Some social movements have organized to alter some of Walmart's policies |
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Walmart & working w/ communities |
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Soc mvmts against Walmart |
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