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Ahh, free trade and markets!
September 17, 2005 ( politics )
As if you needed any more reasons to boycott Wal-Mart and Sam's Club (try CostCo instead, they pay a living wage.)
US retail giant Wal-Mart has been hit with a lawsuit that claims it ignores sweatshop conditions at many of its suppliers' factories around the world.The class-action suit has been filed in Los Angeles on behalf of 15 workers in Bangladesh, Swaziland, Indonesia, China and Nicaragua.
Each claims they were paid less than the minimum wage and not given overtime payments. Some say they were beaten.
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The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart has failed to monitor working conditions at its overseas suppliers.
It further claims that the low prices Wal-Mart demands force some suppliers to resort to sweatshop conditions.
--BBC
Posted by griffjon at September 17, 2005 06:44 PM
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