Joe Hill

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, / alive as you and me. / Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead" / "I never died" said he, / "I never died" said he.

 

now that the plastic bag ban has been intact for awhile, do I miss them, the bags? no I don't...gone are the days when the grocery store would use 5 plastic bags for ten items I buy..now, everything goes right into a fabric bag..I got about ten of them and use different ones depending on my mood that day...some have cheery colors while some are plainer...

Was an overstuffed, defective Walmart shopping bag to blame for Lynette Freis' death? Considering the strange way she met her demise, it might as well have been.

The Nebraska woman was being rung up at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Bellevue on April 16th, 2010, when the cashier decided to place the two 42-ounce La Choy cans she purchased as well as a two-pound bag of rice in a single plastic bag.

While walking back to her car, Lynette's bag failed, causing one of the La Choy cans to fall on her right foot, resulting in a deep cut and the fracturing of her big toe.

She soon developed an infection that neither antibiotics nor two surgical procedures were able to cure, and died

http://gawker.com/husband-says-defective-walmart-shopping-bag-caused-wi-1220822964

now, I have never shopped at Walmart and I never will...haven't even stepped inside one....Walmart is simply the cynical end-product of a consumer nation..buy buy buy without thinking of the consequences: waste...waste that ends up in landfills...even green waste ends up in landfills..they mix it with dirt and use it as ground cover to keep rodents out!! if you want to see the folly of consumerism, visit Tajiguas landfill where giant earthmoving machines bury our waste into the hill...over and over and over again..I hate to use the word, but this is simply not sustainable

the question is? why'd you sell me this, I don't even need it!

as we reflect on Labor Day, we have organized labor and unorganized labor..

On the other end of the employment spectrum, Walmart, a company that has been repeatedly called out for its low, low wages, has made an art out of fighting unions. America's largest private employer has closed stores that voted to unionize, packed various sections with anti-union workers, and -- in one especially stunning case -- decided to close the meat counters at 180 stores when its butchers voted to unionize. It routinely bars union organizers from Walmart property, forces employees to attend anti-union meetings, and threatens to replace employees who try to unionize.

　
Walmart is the worst corporate business in the world...the list of labor violations is long and longer than Wendy's even!!

But this time around, Walmart's labor issues go much further than gender discrimination. In addition to the Tennessee case, the company has been dealing with a very determined group of workers, hundreds of them, who have been striking outside of a Walmart warehouse in Elwood, Illinois since mid-September. The list of grievances runs from unsafe working conditions to widespread sexual harassment. "I told the supervisors about it, but they definitely don't listen. One supervisor I had tried to tell said, 'I didn't see that.' Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen," former Elwood warehouse employee Samantha Rodriguez told The Nation. "When I went to another supervisor about the harassment, he asked me out on a date. I said no, and eventually I got fired."

Women who make pants in El Salvador earn 15 cents for each pair; Wal-Mart sells these pants for $16.95 in its U.S. stores. Also, contractors in El Salvador force workers to take pregnancy tests.

According to Brandeis University Professor Ellen I. Rosen, women in Central America who make clothes for Wal-Mart live in shacks lacking running water or plumbing while women in China live nine to twelve to a room in government-provided dormitories. Some of Wal-Mart's workers in the U.S. spend their nights in trucks of motel rooms without cooking facilities.

The Maine Department of Labor ordered Wal-Mart to pay the largest fine in state history for violating child labor laws. The Department of Labor discovered 1,436 child labor law infractions at twenty Wal-Mart chains.

Following a vote in favor of union representation by the butchers in Jacksonville, Texas, Wal-Mart announced that meat cutting would end at 180 stores.

well that's just a few issues with WALMART...and other private employers...they will keep abusing their power unless the people stop them....and when oh when are affordable quality items going to be Made in America again???

from San Diego up to Maine,
in every mine and mill,
Where working men defend their rights,
it's there you'll find Joe Hill,
it's there you'll find Joe Hill...