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Wal-Mart commercials turn workers' frowns upside down: Employees told how to get public assistance while company makes billions

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Public protests against the anti-women practices followed by retail giant Wal-Mart have forced the company present a more humane face in its TV commercials. Wal-Mart has responded to NOW's protests by saying that its activists could face arrests if the materials being handed out by them in their stores are not stopped immediately.

Author: Bennett, Lisa
Publisher: National Organization for Women
Publication Name: National N O W Times
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-4740
Year: 2003
Advertising, Services information, Advertising Activity, Services, Labor relations, Demonstrations

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Grocery store workers caught up in Wal-Mart's race to the bottom

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Grocery store workers in Southern California are agitating against employers to save affordable health care for themselves and their families. Wal-Mart, the largest grocery retailer in the US, is in the forefront of reducing pay of most of their employees of which more than sixty percent are women.

Author: Bennett, Lisa
Publisher: National Organization for Women
Publication Name: National N O W Times
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-4740
Year: 2003
Services industry workers, Service industries workers

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NOW kicks off Wal-mart holiday shopping campaign

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Wal-Mart's discrimination against women is facing the largest class action suit in the country where NOW activists protesting near the Wal-Mart stores to bring light to the abuses. The new allegations include the intention to lower health care costs by hiring healthier employees.

Author: Winer-Mahfuz, Lisa
Publisher: National Organization for Women
Publication Name: National N O W Times
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-4740
Year: 2005
WMT, Sex discrimination

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Subjects list: United States, Company legal issue, Cases, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Discount stores, Employment discrimination, National Organization for Women, Human resource management, Demonstrations and protests, Company personnel management
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