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From: "Gary Kohls" <gkohls@cpinternet.com> Date: Thu Jan 29, 2004
8:18:28 AM Asia/Bangkok Subject: A Call to Boycott "Bad Neighbor"
Wal-Mart - One of the World's Largest Traders in Human Misery

Bad Neighbor:

Stitched In Misery -- Wal-Mart's Fabric of Global Poverty

The Oppression Connection: Wal-Mart and Unfree Trade Globalize
Poverty Through The World Trade Organization

Bangladesh, Beximco factory--Young women making Wal-mart shirts are
forced to work from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week, 87
hours a week.

Paid 9 to 20 cents and hour for 80 hours--lunch break is unpaid.
And paid less than one-third the legal overtime rate.

No health care--No maternity leave

Wal-Mart and Beximco are violating Bangladeshi labor law which sets
the workweek at 48 hours and limits overtime to 12 hours a week,
while also requiring overtime pay at double the standard hourly
rate.

While Wal-Mart and Its Contractor, Beximco, Stitch Shirts of Misery,
WTO Rules Facilitate the Importing and Exporting of Human Degradation
and Poverty

Wal-Mart's Oppression Connection--Dictatorship Pays

If countries want to do business with Wal-Mart, it pays to be a
dictatorship, where human and workers' rights and religious freedom
are repressed

Over the years, Wal-Mart has shifted more and more of its sourcing
out of the U.S. to oppressive countries---As the world's largest
retailer, Wal-Mart's extensive dealings with dictatorial regimes
is driving down wages and living conditions worldwide.

Nearly 73 percent of water-bourne imports that went to Wal-Mart

>from April 1998 to March 1999 came from China, which has the world's

largest forced labor population.

Wal-Mart regularly says it does not tolerate child labor or forced
or prison labor, but when it comes to walking the walk the company
refuses to reveal its Chinese contractors and will not allow
independent, unannounced inspections of its contractors' facilities.

WTO Rules Allow Wal-Mart to Pit Worker against Worker in a Race to
Bottom of Pay Scale Worldwide.

Wal-Mart One of the World's Largest Traders in Human Misery

As the world's largest retailer with more than $130 billion in
yearly sales, Wal-Mart is the largest outlet for imported goods in
the U.S.

Goods coming from China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and other oppressive
countries make Wal-Mart one of the world's largest traders in human
misery.

For nearly a decade, news reports have documented Wal-Mart's
manufacturing and trading links to countries where sweatshops and
child labor are prevalent--nevertheless, those links are sanctioned
by the WTO.

With its huge financial muscle, Wal-Mart pressures vendors to
lowerprices, threatening to find other sources if current vendors
don't comply.

U.S. manufactures have been forced to cut good jobs and eliminate
entire operations when Wal-Mart shifts to contractors with poverty-level
wages.

Wal-Mart's Contempt for U.S. Workers

For years, Wal-Mart ran a "Buy American" marketing campaign to
deceive American shoppers into thinking Wal-Mart stores sold products
primarily produced by U.S. workers.

Hypocritically, Wal-Mart ran "Buy American" and "Buy Mexican"

marketing campaigns simultaneously, all the while reinvesting its
all-American dollars overseas--$112 million of which went to China.

Wal-Mart undercuts union jobs in the U.S. American manufacturers
have been forced to cut jobs or close doors when Wal-Mart replaces
their products with imports. At Master Lock, 250 union workers lost
their jobs when Wal-Mart dropped the company's products and switched
to an offshore competitor.

Wal-Mart--More Worker Oppression Connections

In what's becoming an old, nevertheless appalling, story, reports
continue to surface linking Wal-Mart and its Kathie Lee apparel
products to sweatshops where workers put in nearly 80 hour workweeks
for less than a living wage. Over the years, TV broadcasts, like
NBC Dateline programs, and other reports have exposed Wal-Mart's
connection to sweatshop and child labor operations. The latest
reports linking the retail giant come from Mexico and Guatema law
here Kathie Lee items also have been produced. Here are the facts:

Ho Lee Modas de Mexico in Puebla, Mexico

550 workers sew women's blazers, pants and blouses for Wal-Mart and
other labels. Workers face forced overtime: 12 -to-14 hour shifts,
6 days a week. Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday:
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The workers are at the factory between 67
and 79 hours a week--There is one 40-minute break in the day for
lunch.

New Employees are forced to take a mandatory pregnancy test. For a
48-hour week the workers earn $29.57 or 61 cents an hour which is
well below a subsistence wage.

Workers are searched on the way in and out of the factory. The
supervisors yell and scream at the women to work faster. Bathrooms
are filthy and lack toilet seats or paper. The workers have to
manually flush the toilet using buckets of water. 14-, 15-, and
16-year old minors have been employed in the plants. Public access
to the plant is prohibited by several heavily armed guards.

San Lucas, S.A., Santiago, Sacatepequez, Guatemala

1,500 workers at the San Lucas factory sew Kathie Lee jackets and
dresses. They face forced overtime: 11-to-14-hour shifts, 6 days a
week Monday to Saturday: 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., sometimes they
work until 10:00 p.m. The workers are at the factory between 66 and
80 hours a week. Refusal to work overtime is punished with an 8-day
suspension without pay. The second or third time this "offense"

occurs, the worker is fired.

For 44 regular hours, the pay is $28.57, or 65 cents an hour. This
doe snot meet subsistence needs. Armed security guards control
access to the toilets, and check the amount of time the women spend
in the bathroom, hurrying them up if they think they are spending
too much time. Public access to the plant is prohibited by several
heavily armed guards.

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More than 80 percent of the American public said the U.S. should
insist on countries meeting labor and environmental standards as
part of any world trade agreement, according to a recent survey.

Find out more:  Read the National Labor Committee Report

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