Wal-Mart & Big-Box Retailers The Battle Against Big-Box Retailers
As the world’s largest corporation and America’s largest private employer, with more than 1 million workers in the U.S., Wal-Mart sets standards for wages and health benefits across the country. Its dominance in the industry drives a race to the bottom in wages and benefits for workers. As Business Week asked, is Wal-Mart Too Powerful? Often publicly subsidized, the company depletes community resources, jeopardizing the vitality of the communities in which the giant retailer operates. Wal-Mart systematically denies its workers their democratic right to freely choose to join a union. It has been found guilty of cheating its workers out of their fairly earned pay. Paid 33% less than unionized retail workers, more than half of Wal-Mart workers cannot afford the Wal-Mart healthcare plan.
