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Wal-Mart-Free Newark
As “the leader in the retail industry in paying its workers the lowest
wages,” Wal-Mart should be barred from doing business in Newark, New
Jersey, said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for
Progress. “We need living wage jobs,” said Hamm. “The minimum wage
is a slave wage.”
Wal-Mart Exploits Obamacare
President Obama’s health care legislation has been a special boon to
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest corporation. “What changes with
Obamacare is that anybody making up to 133 percent of the federal
poverty level now qualifies for Medicaid,” said journalist Mary Wheeler.
In recent months, Wal-Mart has cut the hours of large numbers of workers.
“There’s a big incentive for Wal-Mart to make sure that as many of their
employees are below the federal poverty level” as possible, said Wheeler.
Multinationals Super-Exploit Third World Workers
Labor unions, elected officials and grassroots activists in New York
demanded that multinational corporations be made accountable for
working conditions at factories in the developing world. “We must push
them to sign the international Fire Safety Act and follow international
labor laws,” said Fazi Foezia, a member of DRUM – Desis Rising Up and
Moving – and a Bengladesh national. “They exploit our workers and don’t
pay taxes to our governments.” Garment factory fires in Bengladesh and
Pakistan have killed hundreds in recent months.