Corporate Ethics International

Walmart's war on labor

It's Labor Day. Over 100 years ago, workers risked life and limb to get things like a five day work week, an eight hour day, and the right to organize. Walmart, the country's #1 retailer, and one of the biggest corporations in the world, is doing its best to dismantle those gains one by one.

Wal-Mart Asks Supreme Court to Hear Bias Suit

Wal-Mart Stores asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in American history, involving more than a million female workers, current and former, at Wal-Mart and Sam�s Club stores.

Wal-Mart feels the squeeze in US

Wal-Mart's profits rose to $3.6bn (�2.3bn) helped by cost-cutting and growth in international markets. But Wal-Mart sounded a note of caution, saying the slow economic recovery would "continue to affect" customers.

Seventh Generation Partnering With Walmart Will Create a Healthier World: Jeffrey Hollender

When I first heard yesterday's announcement that Seventh Generation and Walmart are entering into a long-term strategic partnership to get Seventh Gen's eco-friendly cleaning products, diapers and wipes into Walmart's stores as well as online shop, my initial reaction was to check the weather reports to see if hell had indeed frozen over.

What Else You Should Know About Walmart

It's not just the low wages or the near-scientific union busting. It's the preference for poverty, the business model built on turnover, the manipulative PR. Is this really the best way to bring jobs and food to the south and west sides?

The Fight Over Food Deserts -- Corporate America Smacks Its Way Down

This June the City of Chicago approved Walmart's bid to open up dozens of new facilities, beginning with grocery stores in the city's chronically underserved South side.

KFC, Walmart contributing to destruction of Indonesia's rainforests, endangering orangutans

Major U.S. companies are contributing to the destruction of Indonesia's rainforests by sourcing paper from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a subsidiary of Indonesia-based conglomerate Sinar Mas, alleges a new report from Greenpeace.

Women v Wal-Mart, Ten Years On

It has taken nearly a decade, but the class action suit brought on behalf of over one million women looks, almost, like it�ll make it to court reports Women�s eNews. That day in court is likely to bloody Wal-Mart.

Here's the Skinny on Why Wal-Mart Has Made Such a Killing

The success of Wal-Mart is in many ways paradoxical. The world's biggest corporation -- and one of the most technologically sophisticated -- emerged from the poor, rural backwaters of Arkansas, a state regularly at the bottom of most state achievement rankings

The American Values Agenda for Change at Walmart

From where we shop to where we work, the types of jobs we do and the workplace benefits we earn, from the source of the products we buy to threats to our health and our environment, Walmart has transformed our lives and is increasingly defining our possibilities as workers, consumers and communities.

To Serve God and Walmart

In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America�s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and free-market activists.

Walmart Axes Half the Drug Brands Covered in Employee Health Benefit Plan

Previously, Walmart�s health benefits covered about 260 brand name drugs � from Abilify to Zyprexa � according to a Walmart �Quick Reference Preferred Brand List� from January 2009. The July 20, 2009, list contains only about 128 preferred brands.

Wal-Mart Truckers To Finally Get Paid?

Less than a month after naming its new Chief Diversity Officer, it looks like Wal-Mart is finally going to cough up a settlement for African-American truckers who have been discriminated against for years by the company.

Don't Let Bentonville Use Frivolous Lawsuits to Stifle its Critics

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

Wal-Mart's Big Problem: Climate Change

As Gwen Ruta of the Environmental Defense Fund, a Wal-Mart partner, writes in her frank assessment of the company's 2009 sustainability report, the problem is that all the good things that Wal-Mart is doing -- increasing its use of renewable energy, driving efficiency in individual stores, improving its fleet operations and pushing up its recycling rate -- are offset by the fact that the company is adding more stores and selling more stuff.