Friday, December 7, 2007

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price



Information about the documentary, as well as the sources of the facts that we're presenting can be found here.

WAL-MART Drives Down Retail Wages $3 BILLION Every Year

WAL-MART Costs Taxpayers $1,557,000,000,00 to Support its Employees

In Texas it is estimated that WAL-MART cheated workers out of up to one hundred and fifty million dollars in unpaid wages

Wal-Mart Managers delete time from workers' timecards

Wal-Mart currently faces lawsuits in thirty-one different States for wage and hour abuses potentially involving hundreds of thousand workers.

Wal-Mart is facing a class-action lawsuit for discrimination against 1.6 million former and current female employees.

WAL-MART SUBSIDY NATIONWIDE: $1.008 BILLION

Currently in the U.S. there are 26,699,678 SQUARE FEET of empty WAL-MARTS

1999: All new WAL-MART construction halted in state of PENNSYLVANIA due to Environmental Violations

WAL-MART Imported $18 BILLION from CHINA in 2004

Cost for WAL-MART Factory Worker to Assemble (a toy tractor): $0.18
Retail cost at Wal-Mart: $14.96

Average WAL-MART Hourly Sales Employee Earnings: $13,861

HELEN WALTON: $18.0 BILLION
ALICE WALTON: 18.0 BILLION
JOHN WALTON: 18.2 BILLION
ROB WALTON: $18.3 BILLION
JIM WALTON: $18.3 BILLION

The WALTON FAMILY Has Given LESS THAN 1% of Their Wealth to Charity
Bill Gates has given 58%

The WALTON FAMILY received a federal tax cut of: $91,500.00 per HOUR in the 2004 tax year

A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado.
In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers, The Walton Family gave $6,000

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