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Originally Posted by Not Bob
If you're talking about Walmart's labor policy, I'm pretty sure that regardless of all the ways they game the system, they at least mostly comply with wage and hour laws in the US. Leave aside whether that alone is sufficient for social justice, but ...
If you're talking about the labor practices of Walmart's suppliers overseas, yes. And I encourage it by using my iPhone and wearing Nikes. And everytime I complain I mention how "free" trade isn't really free trade because many countries subsidize the production of goods by either not having or not enforcing labor (or environmental) standards re wages and safety, I get laughed at and told that we can't stop the Invisible Hand ("from smacking labor around" is the unspoken end of the statement.
Whatever. I think I'm writing in Michael Harrington's name on my presidential primary ballot next year.
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Don't forget those signs in the Wal-Mart break room explaining in detail how to apply for food stamps, and their policy of NEVER hiring anybody below the level of department manager full-time.
I couldn't begin to fathom how to write or enforce such a law, but their policies on hiring and limiting hours should be criminal
