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The following poster advertisement is used to express the truth behind Wal-Mart.
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What is Being Done?
On June 30th 2011, Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (Netherlands biggest pension fund) withdrew their $121 million dollar investment in Wal-Mart due to poor labor practice and other faults in the company. The following information goes into further detail:
Title: ‘Walmart Blacklisted By Major Pension Fund Over Poor Labor Practices’
“A major pension fund and longtime investor in Walmart has blacklisted the retailing behemoth, citing poor labor practices and the company's anti-union stance as the driving force behind its rejection”
What happened: Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds removed their investment of $121 million on June 30, 2011 after Wal-Mart failed to meet labor and environment standards. The pension fund had repeatedly met with Wal-Mart executives in an attempt to find a solution, but Wal-Mart proved stubborn. "There has been a change, but in the end we had to conclude that it was not enough," said Anna Pot, a senior sustainability specialist involved in the decision. "We felt that if the workers are not happy, then what does it mean for the company?"
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There are many possible perpetrators who are involved in the Wal-Mart labor abuse situation. Irresponsible or incorrectly trained managers are one of them. To prove this, I will share a story where a manager was involved in an abusive situation:
Meredith Boucher, an employee at Wal-Mart that has a mental illness, sued both Wal-Mart and her manager at the location where she worked for intentional infliction of mental suffering and constructive dismissal. Wal-Mart sourly handed over $1.2 million, and her manager $250,000. The payment was later appealed by Wal-Mart, claiming that it was unreasonable and that the jury was wrong.
Meredith often found herself singled out from the rest of her colleagues and called words like an 'idiot' or 'stupid'.
The perpetrator in this situation was the manager (due to his abusive behavior) and Wal-Mart (failed to install appropriate procedures to prevent the situation).
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Victims
To cover this section, I will go over one massive case with Wal-Mart that took place
Gender Discrimination June 21th, 2011. The largest gender discrimination case in U.S history
2000 Women filed Gender Discrimination charges after pay and promotion gender discrimination. Case was dismantled by the Supreme Court. Women moved to a more regional strategy in 48 separate cases for 48 separate states. Three of these cases reached the news:
Case 1:
Case Continued, Texas
-October 18th, 2012: Several groups of women attempt to strengthen their stance in the whole gender discrimination lawsuit by regionalizing their cases. This particular case occurred in Texas, and once again, they failed to convince the jury of Wal-Mart’s abuse to their workers.
- “ U.S. District Judge Reed O’Conner dismissed the Texas class action lawsuit on Monday after finding the lawsuit was filed too late. O’Conner said the Plaintiffs’ class claims “are barred by the statute of limitation, and should be dismissed,” but allowed the lead Plaintiff, Stephanie Odle, to move forward with other individual claims.
“We are pleased that the district court has dismissed the class action claims, recognizing the individuals must pursue their own claims,” Theodore Boutrous Jr., a lawyer for Wal-Mart, said following the ruling.
“You can’t piggyback one class action on top of another. This class action was based on the same theories that were rejected by the Supreme Court.”
Attorneys for the Plaintiffs said they plan to file an appeal.”
Case 2:
- “The Plaintiffs are seeking to represent a proposed class of more than 100,000 current and former female employees of California Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores who were allegedly subject to pay and promotion discrimination at any time since December 26, 1998.”
- Finally Wal-Mart’s is forced to endure the case in California after a federal court denied dismissal of the case. Excellent.
- Wal-Mart’s excuse for the dismissal was that the number of women involved in the single case was too high. Perhaps this might have to do with dragging out and bankrupting the opponent in individual cases. Now that women have joined together and are fighting as a team, it seems like Wal-Mart will really have to bring them up a level.
- “A new hearing on the class action status of the Dukes case is set for February 15, 2013. “
Case 3:
Case Continued, Tennessee
-“Three female Wal-Mart employees (Cheryl Phipps, Bobbi Millner and Shawn Gibbons) in Tennessee have filed a class action gender discrimination lawsuit against the retailer, claiming they were “denied promotion” and are earning “thousands of dollars” less than their male counterparts due to their gender.”
Detailed information:
“The women claim they were paid significantly less than male colleagues and were told they could not be promoted to management because it was a “man’s job.” One male manager at a Franklin, Tennessee, store allegedly told a female worker that “women should be seen and not heard,” the class action lawsuit alleges.”
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