from The New York Times
Wal-Mart has faced previous child labor charges. In March 2000, Maine fined the company $205,650 for violations of child labor laws in every one of the 20 stores in the state. In January 2004, a weeklong internal audit of 128 stores found 1,371 instances in which minors apparently worked too late at night, worked during school hours or worked too many hours in a day. Company officials said the audit was faulty and had incorrectly found that some youths had worked on school days when, in fact, those days were holidays.
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After years and years of fighting to keep it out, Wal-Mart just opened in Ithaca. I've yet to step foot in there, and have every intention of never going inside even if they have the world's greatest sale on crappy particle-board bookcases.
Ugh. Child labor. Union busting. Sexism. They're a hell of an organization, huh?
I work at a PBS station, and what's sad to me is the expectation by the public for immediate gratification. A member actually asked me "If Wal-Mart can use all this technology to instantly order and ship product, why can't you?"
Explaining the cost of such technology is cost prohibitive for a small public television station whose main business is programming, not merchandise, seemed a difficult concept for him to grasp. And getting into the fact that many of our suppliers wouldn't work with us like that anyway,was leading to a longer conversation then I really wanted to have. Maybe next time I should ask if we should also opperate on other Wal-Mart Business models, such as not paying employees for over-time, or turning a blind eye to Child Labor Law.
Probably not a good idea.
I work at a PBS station, and what's sad to me is the expectation by the public for immediate gratification. A member actually asked me "If Wal-Mart can use all this technology to instantly order and ship product, why can't you?"
Explaining the cost of such technology is cost prohibitive for a small public television station whose main business is programming, not merchandise, seemed a difficult concept for him to grasp. And getting into the fact that many of our suppliers wouldn't work with us like that anyway,was leading to a longer conversation then I really wanted to have. Maybe next time I should ask if we should also opperate on other Wal-Mart Business models, such as not paying employees for over-time, or turning a blind eye to Child Labor Law.
Probably not a good idea.
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