Corporate Ethics International : Recommended Viewing

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.

Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam's Club
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Walmart (blue) started slow in 1962 and then spread like wildfire in the southeast, starting in 1970, and then made its way towards the west coast. Sam's Club starts to sprout up in the 1980s with bursts up to present.

Last night’s CNBC Wal-Mart documentary a must-watch
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Every once in while the mainstream media produces an insightful and fair-handed look at Wal-Mart. Even less often, the mainstream business press produces such a piece.

Illegal Logging Market: from there to Wal-Mart.
New Yorker Online

This week in the magazine, Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the illegal logging market. Here he discusses how a tree from halfway around the world becomes a toilet seat at your local Wal-Mart.

Why the employee free choice act matters ~ video
WalmartWatch

This video from American Rights at Work tells the story of workers’ attempts to unionize at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and why the Employee Free Choice Act is crucial for workers everywhere.

Everyday slave wages at Wal-Mart
Brasscheck TV

According to Fortune Magazine, Wal-Mart is now the world's biggest private employer dwarfing other US mega-employers like the US Postal Service, McDonald's, and IBM.

Wal-Mart Sues Disabled Woman
by CNN.com, CSR Newswire

Debbie Shank was hit by a semi-truck in May of 2000 and suffered severe brain damage. Now Wal-Mart is suing her family to recoup paid medical fees.

Talking to the Wal(l)
Talking to the Wal(l)

Wal-Mart's plan to build a large store in a small town is the backdrop for this sharp-edged comedy. All goes well for the corporate giant until an 11th hour citizens' rebellion resists the lure of low prices to reveal another side of the bargain--a side which paves over open land, annihilates Main Street businesses, and rolls back wages.

Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Come to Town
by Micha X. Peled, Teddy Bear Films

STORE WARS follows events in Ashland, VA, over a one-year period, from the first stormy public hearing that galvanizes residents' opposition till the Town Council takes a final vote on the proposed Wal-Mart store.

Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Prices
by Robert Greenwald