Walmart Lays Off More Than 11,000 Sam's Club Employees

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 9:52 AM PST

2010/01/25 · 09:52

It's been a rough few weeks for Sam's Club employees. First came the announcement that ten Sam's Club stores would close and the 1,500 employees who worked there could lose their jobs. Then, yesterday, Walmart announced they would be laying off 11,200 workers. Most of those being laid off demonstrate products in the stores. Walmart's spokesperson made it clear that this wasn't about the economy, or the employees performance, rather, they were outsourcing the jobs to Shopper Events a company who's only purpose is to demonstrate products in Walmart stores.

More on this story, and our official press statement below the fold.

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Thursday July 30, 2009 · 12:47 PM PDT

2009/07/30 · 12:47

Remember when Walmart tried to restrict usage of the ubiquitous yellow smiley face? Well, the company's legal team is it again.

Walmart has filed an injunction against a website critical of its Canadian business practices, and their "legal basis" will outrage you. Walmart wants to stop WalmartWorkersCanada.ca from using the word "Wal-Mart" either "alone or with other words... in a color scheme of blue, white and gold." Even more ridiculous, the company wants to restrict the usage of circular shapes on the group's website!

Please help us get the word out! Go to our site and sign the petition here, and digg the article here.

There's more below the fold, including links to the petition.

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 12:39 PM PDT

2009/06/23 · 12:39

Wake Up Walmart has a new study out today about Walmart's $4 prescription drug program. The study reveals that Walmart has been buying generic drugs from a disreputable Indian company that has been investigated by the FDA and DOJ, and had drugs banned from coming in to the United States and Canada. This is important not just because Walmart could be endangering its customers with shoddy medicines, but also because Walmart is pushing hard to be known as a leader on health Care. We all know that Walmart is no leader on health care, but this is just one more hard piece of evidence.

You can read our full report here: http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/...

Please help us spread the word! Forward, the link around and digg our report here.

Our Press Release about the report is below the fold!

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 12:51 PM PDT

2009/04/24 · 12:51

This article from the Miami Herald is a must read. Not only is this the first real unionization effort in quite some time, but it's also getting real results. One hundred and fifty have signed authorization cards at this store.

It's also a must read because it shows what these workers are really up against: delays, harassment, threats and pressure. Despite all of that, workers aren't backing down. They know what they're up against and they standing strong.

Excerpt from the story below the break.

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Friday February 13, 2009 · 1:50 PM PST

2009/02/13 · 13:50

One of the biggest criticism we here at Wake Up Wal-Mart have always had of the world's largest retailer is that they fail to take care of their workers. Specifically, we've always found their health care criminally lacking. While Wal-Mart has made a few small steps in the right direction (due to our constant cajoling) their coverage remains pitifully inadequate. Today two items came out that prove Wal-Mart is having their PR department press hard on the message, "look how awesome we are at health care! We've totally turned things around!"

Read the two items, as well as our response below the fold.

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 · 10:26 AM PST

2009/02/10 · 10:26

According to the Morning News in Arkansas 700 employees at Wal-Mart headquarters were dismissed this morning. We haven't heard if this will be more widespread, but we thought you should know. We'll be releasing a statement soon.

Here's the link to the article: http://www.nwaonline.net/...

Full text of the article after the jump.

I've also added Wake Up Wal-Mart's official statement below the jump. Please rec this, I think it's an important story.

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 1:58 PM PST

2009/02/06 · 13:58

A lawyer for several witnesses to the Black Friday stampede at a New York Wal-Mart reports today that his clients have been called before a grand jury. It is possible that Wal-Mart could be the target of a criminal charges for its role in the deadly stampede. Though the penalty could be as little as $5,000 or $10,000, a criminal prosecution would be an important message to eve the countries largest retailer. Wal-Mart too often gets away with breaking laws simply because they are large and have an army of lawyers on staff. We hope the District Attorney is going after Wal-Mart for criminally negligent homicide. While we're no lawyers, we strongly believe that Wal-Mart could have prevent this tragic event. Moreover, we believe Wal-Mart had a responsibility to prevent the death of Mr. Damour and the injuries of others.

Article after the jump...

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Friday January 30, 2009 · 12:37 PM PST

2009/01/30 · 12:37

This Sunday Lee Scott will officially retire as CEO of Wal-Mart and Mike Duke will take over. The transition, according to reports and Lee Scott's comments, won't be eventful or groundbreaking. That's partly because Scott will stay on as the Chairman of Wal-Mart's board and work with Duke for a few years. Still, it is a transition and we'll be watching closely to see how Mr. Duke runs Wal-Mart. This blog post from Reuters Shop Talk asks what you would add to Mr. Duke's To Do list. When we first heard about the change of CEOs back in November, this is what we had to say:

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Wednesday January 14, 2009 · 1:38 PM PST

2009/01/14 · 13:38

Wal-Mart's outgoing CEO Lee Scott will sit down with Charlie Rose tonight for an hour long interview. The show airs tonight at 11 pm on PBS. It should be an interesting interview.

Our predictions are after the break, and we want to know what YOU would ask Lee Scott...

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Friday December 19, 2008 · 10:33 AM PST

2008/12/19 · 10:33

The tragic story of Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart worker originally from Jamaica, will stay with you forever.

It has been all over the news. Damour was trampled to death while shielding a pregnant shopper from a Black Friday stampede at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, NY. When we heard the news about Jdimytai, we were utterly shocked. Even today, we can't believe Wal-Mart let this happen.

At Jdimytai's Wal-Mart, lack of preparation and aggressive marketing turned Black Friday into a crowd-control nightmare. Early that morning, a throng of 2,000 shoppers swarmed at the store's front entrance. They grew agitated. Though Jdimytai Damour was given no crowd control training, though he had no security experience whatsoever, management put him in front of the surging crowd of shoppers just before the doors opened. Not long after, he was pronounced dead.

Read on below the fold, help us raise money for Jdimytai's family, and sign our letter to his family.

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 8:15 AM PST

2008/12/18 · 08:15

Wal-Mart has once again demonstrated its true talent of earning really really bad PR. They just seem to thrive at it. And when a family called to get a Birthday cake made with their son's name on it, they once again stepped up. What is so bad about making a Birthday cake? Well if the child's name happens to be Adolf Hitler and his family happens to be holocaust deniers, it is, at the very least, bad PR, and we think pretty offensive to boot. What makes it worse is that other stores in the area had the good sense to say no to the family and that Wal-Mart has made this particular cake three years running.

There's more Wal-Mart and Nazi connections and a clip of KiethO below the fold.

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Wednesday December 17, 2008 · 1:57 PM PST

2008/12/17 · 13:57

We've just released our final ad of our Holiday Campaign. You can watch it here (video below the fold)

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