Word: marts
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Albert is unhappy and he isn’t sure why. Sadly, we never care. The root of Albert’s malaise, I think, is that he has sold out. He has entered into a partnership with Huckabees, a chain of K-Mart-like stores, to throw some muscle behind his coalition to save a local wetland. Russell’s sly appropriation of American corporate-speak provide the best moments in the Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they...
...other day, we went into a Wal-Mart and I found the clothes that I sewed,” Akther said, holding up a pair of pants...
Both Akther and Maksuda work for suppliers of Wal-Mart. Sk Nazma, president of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and a former factory worker, spoke after Akther and Maksuda. Nazma repeatedly called for “solidarity and support” for the 1.8 million workers that the organization represents...
According to NLC Director Charles Kernaghan, Wal-Mart is “the worst company in the world without a doubt” in regulating the working conditions in the factories of its suppliers...
Holding up a Wal-Mart shirt, he explained the company pays 26 cents for the total labor put into the manufacturing of the shirt and still complains that their workers get paid too much...