More Big Trouble for WalMart's Exploitative Profit Model
Via Occupy Wall Street.
http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/more-big-trouble-walmarts-exploitative-profit-model
January 9, 2013 |
The courts have apparently figured out WalMart’s super sneaky strategy of domestic outsourcing (contracting out parts its U.S.-based supply chain to other companies to skirt responsibility for labor infractions), which could produce a host of legal troubles for the nation’s largest company.
A federal judge has ruled that WalMart can be included in the impending warehouse workers’ class-action lawsuit about a plethora of alleged labor abuses, which occurred in a WalMart warehouse in Southern California.
The workers have long voiced concerns and outrage over alleged violation of labor laws in these warehouses, which run the gamut from unsafe conditions, dangerous equipment and below-minimum-wage pay. In the fall, these warehouse workers—along with those outside Joliet, Illinois, orchestrated a series of strikes, which kicked off the wave of national and international protests and employee walkouts.
The warehouse workers in Southern California brought a class-action lawsuit against Schneider Logistics, the contract company that runs the warehouse where 1,800 people work. The warehouse packs and ships goods to WalMart retail stores across the United States, but because the warehouse is not run directly by the retail giant, it was unclear whether the company could be named directly in the suit.
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