Why Rightardia shops at Costco . . .

and not at Sam's Club. 


Rightardia switched to Costco more than a year ago and  vive la difference.

There are trained employees at Costco who knew where the merchandise is and they don't run the other way when they see a customer.

As one employee put it, if you pay your employees peanuts, you will end up hiring monkeys.

According to Consumers Reports, Costco beats Wal-Mart by a wide margin.

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WIN: More than 130,000 ask Wal-Mart to drop abusive supplier, 6/22/2012

CJ Seafood workers

The effort to get Wal-Mart to drop a supplier accused of abusing workers has drawn more than 130,000 people on Change.org. 

A Louisiana company called CJ Seafood allegedly forced workers to work up to 24 hours at a time with no overtime pay, locked them in the work facility and threatened to beat them. 

The workers also say they live in a labor camp near the workplace and they have been prevented from leaving after 9 p.m. The  wants Wal-Mart to hold CJ Seafood responsible and get them to end the worker abuse.

This one of the worst cases of worker abuse that Rightardia has heard of. 

The workers were legally hired under the federal H-2B temporary worker program.  The workers even went to the police to complain of forced labor and being physically threatened for not working fast enough.

From Rightardia's perspective, CJ Seafood has a "management problem." 

photo:  http://www.jwj.org 

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WIN: Wal-Mart will pay nearly $5 million in owed back wages

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Another day and another investigation into the practices of the World’s Largest Retailer. Jesse Russell reports:

On the heels of allegations that Wal-Mart may have sought to cover up bribery in Mexico, the world’s largest retailer is now being required to pay nearly $5 million in back wages and damages.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced yesterday that an investigation revealed that Wal-Mart had denied more than 4,000 employees overtime.

The Labor Department alleges that Wal-Mart had misclassified asset protection coordinators and managers

In their vision center as salaried employees exempt from overtime paid as guaranteed by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The allegations go back to 2007 and Wal-Mart said it took corrective action at that time. The company was also hit with a civil penalty of more than $450,000 due to the repetitive nature of the violations.

This is a common problem in small business but less common in large corporations. To increase productivity and avoid hiring new workers, corporations will authorize overtime for existing workers.

Eventually the corporation will become concerned about overtime costs and they will say no further overtime is authorized. Management will assume that productivity will be maintained , but it will take a drop.

In the last stages of this corporate pee-pee dance, one of the wise guy executives will suggest reclassifying hourly workers as mangers so overtime doesn't have to be paid. 


Bad idea!


Under wage and hour laws, a a manager supervises other people and runs a unit in the enterprise. 


However, there are exempt jobs from this labor rule law like teachers. Managers who make less than $455  a week or less are also eligible for overtime. There are a lot of  other "ifs, ands or buts" under the Fair Labor Standards Act: see http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17a_overview.pdf

source: Workers Independent News

graphic: Garrett Law
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WIN: Wal-Mart Chairman And CEO should resign Over Mexican Bribes Scandal

By Doug Cunningham

The Change To Win labor federation says the public needs to send Wal-Mart a message about its alleged bribery of Mexican officials to expand in that country.

Change To Win says Wal-Mart reportedly bribed public officials in Mexico to evade laws designed to protect workers, the environment and communities and then tried to cover it up.

Change To Win is urging people to sign an online petition calling for the resignations of Wal-Mart Board Chair Rob Walton and CEO Mike Duke, and a thorough an independent investigation of Wal-Mart's actions. The petition is at Change.org.

Of interest, the US chamber of commerce has two former Wal-Mart executives on it. Their approach to Wal-Mart's corruption in Mexico is lobby so that the Corrupt Practices Act is revised to make it easier for US corporations abroad that are bribing local officials.

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Wal-Mart launches probe into Chinese labor abuse allegations

By Chen Hong (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-11-27 07:54

United States retailing giant Wal-Mart yesterday launched its own investigation into the findings of a New-York based human rights group, which levied serious labor abuse allegations against the company after inspecting five of its supplier factories in China.

"We take such reports very seriously," a statement from Wal-Mart said.

"We will take prompt remedial action if our investigations confirm any of the alleged findings."

A China Labor Watch (CLW) report, which was made public on Wednesday, alleged that employees in a number of Chinese supplier factories of the US retailer have been forced to work up to 77 hours a week in "poor working conditions".

As the world's largest retailer, "Wal-Mart leverages its massive product orders to purchase goods at low prices, and the workers have to bear the financial burden", CLW said in a statement.

Good workers get an annual bonus of no more than 100 yuan, the report said.

Li Qiang, the founder and executive director of CLW who has been looking into Wal-Mart's practices for nearly a decade, said the retailing giant "deserves moral condemnation at a time when Chinese workers cannot sue the company over poor work conditions".

Wal-Mart, which has more than 250 stores across China.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-11/27/content_9062356.htm

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Glen Beck loses eight more advertisers

Cross-posted at Jack and Jill Politics, Firedoglake, and Daily Kos.

Big news today. We've confirmed that eight more major advertisers have pulled their support from Glenn Beck's show -- Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank, Broadview Security, and Re-Bath.

Overall, twenty advertisers have now ended their support of Beck.

The colorofchange.org press release confirmed:

Eight more Glenn Beck advertisers, including Wal-Mart -- the world's largest retailer -- have confirmed to ColorOfChange.org that they pulled their ads from the controversial Fox News Channel broadcaster's eponymous show. Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck.

Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck's show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host called President Obama a "racist" who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Previous companies who pulled their ads include ConAgra, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Men's Wearhouse, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, RadioShack, Roche, SC Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sargento, and State Farm Insurance.

"We are heartened to see so many corporate citizens step up in support of our campaign against Glenn Beck," said James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org. "Their action sends a clear a message to Glenn Beck: Broadcasters shouldn't abuse the privilege they enjoy by spewing dangerous and racially charged hate language over the air. No matter their political affiliation, hate language doesn't belong in our national dialogue."

Read the rest of the story at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/17/gmac-financial-services-c_n_261148.html


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