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8/9/2019 Transcript Walmart

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Please give a warm welcome to Lee Scott, ourPresident and Chief Executive Ocer, Walmart

stores, incorporated.

Whoah ! "now... #han" $ou... #han" $ou...! "now...

%lright, alright.

Ever$ $ear.

O"a$, o"a$.

!t would &e a pleasure for an$&od$ to &e theCEO of this compan$ &ecause $'"now it doesn't

matter if $ou're Sam Walton, or $ou're (avid)lass, or $ou're Lee Scott.

When $ou come to this meeting, $ear after$ear, $ou get to sa$ *we had record sales.

We had record earnings. We had record reinvestment&ac" into our compan$.

+ut $ou "now ! sa$ all that, &ut let me tell$ou m$ friends, $ou &etter &e read$ to &e

&etter. +ecause toda$, for whatever reason,whether it's our success or our sie *Walmart

Stores, !ncorporated, has generated fear *ifnot env$, in some circles.

%nd that ma"es it more important than everthat we focus on doing the right thing, and

doing things right *ever$ time.

#here are two things that we should do. -um&erone, is tell the Walmart stor$. )et the message

out there. %nd the second thing is *sta$ thecourse. Walmart is too important to individual

families who are stretching a &udget. We'retoo important to the suppliers who emplo$

millions of people. We're too important toour associates *for whom we have so much love,

and value so much.


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%nd $our compan$ will continue to demonstrateour citienship as a good emplo$er *and a

mem&er of the communities that we serve sowell around this world. Ladies and gentlemen,

!'ll promise $ou this *we're going to sta$the course. %nd this compan$ is going to continue

to grow.

%ctuall$ we/ started in 0123. Started on4ain Street and 4iddle5eld. Little countr$

store that at that time was started in thefamil$, and it was prett$ dicult to "now

*it was a &ig decision. %nd m$ &rother andlaw and ! decided we were going to ta"e that

step and we went into &usiness. We startedin a little one room &uilding that had a full

&asement &ut we didn't have an$ plum&ing inthe &asement *&ut the upstairs retail area

was ver$ small.

We were there for a $ear and a half to two

$ears, then we moved on to a larger store

in a shopping center. We spent several $earsthere and proceeded in 0113 *we &uilt this

facilit$ here.

#his gentleman here, that happens to &e m$son. 6e's &een m$ right hand man for man$

$ears. !t was much easier to retire in 0112

when he was here to ta"e over.

One of the &iggest parts of our store &eingin a rural area is what we call our hardware

section *we've got the nuts and the &oltsand the nails, and those t$pes of fasteners.

#hat's alwa$s &een good &ecause a lot of farmerswere alwa$s mending machiner$ and things around

the farm. %nd some of the "ids that were *"ids

when ! was growing up, $'"now, in here, now


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the$'ve got families, the$ come in here forthe 5x it up t$pe things.

Since ! was eight, come down on 7rida$ nightsafter school. !'d wor" until nine.

! wor"ed here since ! was six. ! swept, orhelped customers when ! was $oung, too. %t

the end of the da$, grandpa or dad would giveus their poc"et change. ! spent a lot of late

nights in here, too. Especiall$ when we were&uilding it.

! generall$ arrive here a&out 890: in themorning and ! unloc" the door. ! come in and

turn the lights on, and ! get the da$ mone$for each drawer in the registers, and ! open

up the registers. %nd usuall$ at that time#om is here, #om goes ahead and "ind of tidies

up the front of the store and sets out the%merican ;ag and the &enches for our customers

to sit on. % lot of times the %mish fellason their wa$ to wor" will stop here for things

the$ need for their da$'s pro


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section who "nows an$thing a&out plum&ing.

We've &een tr$ing to get read$ for them, pro&a&l$,for the last ten $ears.

We had a meeting with all the gu$s, explainingthe purpose of our


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!'m all for free enterprise, &ut when $ouloo" at the &ig picture, the people that own

the compan$ are the richest people in theworld. So, the realit$ is the$ could spread

that out. !'m curious to see how much the$'llactuall$ give &ac" to the communit$.

#o even use %merican with Walmart in the samesentence is


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up at and sa$, DWow, he's a nion Wor"er,he's ma"ing 0F or 3G per hour.D %nd ! realie,

that's what we're pa$ing our people. We'renot nion. Aeah, !'m all for the nions doing

whatever the$ can do and $'"now... Whetherit &e Walmart or >*4art, or an$ stor$ that's

not gonna pa$ a fair wage.

!'m a staunch %merican, ! love %merica *it'sthe 5nest, free*est countr$ in the world.

%nd !'d still, at m$ age, !'d 5ght and diefor this countr$. +ut it seems that there

are things going on within this countr$ *particularl$from a &usiness and economic standpoint that

aren't for the good of the people. ! mean,the people en masse. A'"now, small segment

of the population is doing well &$ what ishappening, &ut the greater ma


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and we were all out in the street, protesting.+ut ! thin" the li"elihood of that happening

is... we'll pro&a&l$ see pigs ;$ &efore then.

! put this &usiness plan together with thehelp of di?erent hardware organiations.

! went to several di?erent &an"s to chec"on some funding, and when ! got an appraisal

on m$ &usiness and the &uildings, the appraiseractuall$ came in and devalued the &uilding.

6ere, ! 5gured it'd &e appreciating afterli"e ten $ears... %nd he came in and said

a lower value, and ! Huestioned m$self *!said D6ow could this &eID +ecause $'"now,

with in;ation, and the econom$ isn't great,&ut... it still should at least &e holding

it's value. 6e said no, an$ time a Walmartcomes into town, the$ "noc" the values down

&ecause sooner or later, there's going to&e a &unch of empt$ &uildings and none of

them are going to &e a&le to sell.

%n$ communit$ in a grand opening is goingto see a change. % drop in sales, it happens,

regardless of whether it's Walmart or some&od$else. Aou'll get a drop in sales. So there'll

&e a dramatic change in something. 6ow longit'll lastI !t can't last forever, &ecause

$ou can't stand the overhead if $ou don'thave the &usiness. So something has to happen.

nless $ou


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we'll wor" something out. We're going to sellthe propert$ and !'ll &e a&le to pa$ all of

m$ &ills and wal" awa$ without an$ de&t. #hat'sif it all wor"s out right. ! pra$ that it

will.

! remem&er that li"e it was $esterda$. #ohell with it. Walmart'll &u$ the whole damn

town. We'll shut them down. We used to drivethrough towns, going D2 months, @ months,

2 monthsD, and then the$'d &e closing.

(rive up all the wa$ to -ew Aor" Cit$ on BouteFG, $ou can pull o? to Clarion on or an$

of those towns up there, and $ou'll see aWalmart up in the hill. Aou'll see a Per"ins,

ma$&e a +urger >ing. %nd then $ou'll drivefurther into the town, and $ou'll see an empt$

town.

!t loo"s li"e a neutron &om& hit it.

#he$ don't get it. We start tal"ing a&outHualit$ of life, the$ start tal"ing a&out

cheap underwear. ! "eep sa$ing, DAou can't&u$ small town Hualit$ of life at a Walmart,

the$ don't sell it.D +ut once the$ steal itfrom $ou, $ou can't get it &ac" at an$ price.

We thought it was the most fantastic thing

in the world when Walmart was coming to 6earne,

#exas. ! mean, it was li"e the$ &estowed somegreat honor to the communit$. %nd we welcomed

them literall$ with open arms.

We could not sa$ enough good a&out them. Wecould not do enough for them to help them

come. When Walmart 5rst made the decisionto come here, $ou could come to town on a

Saturda$ evening, and not 5nd a par"ing place,


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an$where.

! came to downtown 6earne on Saturda$ &eforeChristmas, and there was twelve cars in downtown

6earne. ! counted them. #welve cars in downtown6earne. #hat is pathetic.

Walmart was a great thing for our communit$.!t's reall$ awa"ened the west side of our

town.

! thin" Sam Walton would tell us,


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%lwa$s having to sta$ late. Aou're supposedto wor" until eleven, $ou sta$ until twelve,

twelve thirt$.

>eep the num&er of associates from &eing fulltime as man$ as $ou can, $ou "eep them part

time as much as $ou can. %nd


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Aou should have plent$ of time to go intothe oce.

#he mone$ that ! did get went right &ac" intoWalmart. !'d get m$ chec", have it deposited,

go shopping.

! had *when ! 5rst started Walmart, ! hadm$ "ids on the um, Walmart insurance. !t got

to the point where it


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+ut ! can't a?ord to put m$ children on theWalmart insurance, &ecause it's too expensive.

#here's no wa$ ! can a?ord to have sevent$5ve dollars ta"en out of each chec",


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the oces, &ut $'"now, at least the$'rethere.

!'m than"ful for the programs that are availa&le,$'"now. !t's not a fun situation, it's demeaning.

! alwa$s heard people sa$, well, the$'re


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su&sidies, and food stamps.

Evel$n (ee used to wor" full time for Walmart,&ut didn't have compan$ health care &ene5ts.

She literall$ couldn't a?ord to pa$ for it,so she turned to government assistance.

What the pu&lic doesn't understand is thatthose ever$da$ low prices are &ased on taxpa$er

su&sidies. Walmart is getting awa$ with it&ecause the$ can.

! tal"ed to the regional personnel managera&out who is going to ta"e care of the Walmart

associates, and their health care needs, andhe said *let the state do it.

#he personnel manager told me personall$ thatthere's assistance out there for people, the$

should &e a&le to go use it. se $our taxpa$er'sdollars.

! had a list of all the government agenciesand di?erent places that people could go

if the$ needed mone$ for their utilit$ &ills,if the$ needed to appl$ for food stamps, or

if the$ needed to appl$ for W!C, or for 4edic%id.

So $our dignit$ is not there, $our pride isnot there, $ou go to wor" "nowing that $ou're

not going to &e ma"ing enough mone$ to reall$ma"e ends meet, &ut $et $ou've gotta go with

a smile on $our face and fa"e it. Aeah, that'sprett$ &ad.

Come up with some t$pe of health care thata full time person can a?ord, and don't have

to put on the scale *health care, or feedm$ famil$.

Wh$ is it that a corporation that in 3GG@had announced over 3JG &illion in sales cannot

provide a liva&le wage and a?orda&le healthcare for their emplo$ees.


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#here's nowhere around that there's a compan$that ma"es this much mone$ and still turns

around and ma"es their associates go to thestate for aid.

! thin" m$ compan$ ta"es famil$ ver$ seriousl$.%nd the$'ll help $ou achieve an$thing $ou

want. #he possi&ilities are a&solutel$ endlessat Walmart.

#hin" of the careers that get started in thiscompan$ and the di?erence it ma"es in people's

lives. +ut most importantl$ to me,


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m$ communit$.

So !


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tell the store manager that $ou're no longer

in charge of this store. Ever$ decision goesthrough us.

#he$ taught me how to pro5le people. Of course,! didn't "now that was the term, then. %nd

it was identif$ing people that were the strongestrepresenters of the petition to organie,

or at least get a vote.

%nita, we need to contact, still. Possi&ilit$there.

Aou wal" up to a couple of associates, and

the$'re &oth tal"ing, the$ wal" awa$ from

each other *the$ gotta go. #he$'re conspiringto do something.

+e nois$, &e happ$, &e &oisterous. We're hereto support fol"s who are tr$ing desperatel$

to 5ght against the world's largest, richestand pro&a&l$ meanest corporation.

#he associates in the automotive department

were ;ooded with &rainwashing material against

the union.

! got fooled &$ a union. 7ooled &ad. %ll theunions wor" at is ta"ing a cut out of m$ pa$.

Aeah, ta"e $our mone$ and spend it on politicalcampaigns and help people ! don't even vote

for.

+ecause the$ "now a union would


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(uring the process of intimidating them, the$


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%nd Cod$, we "now Cod$ is good.Bight

Cod$ is with us, here.

#he$'ll instruct the managers to start hiringassociates in the store. %nd what the$ do

this for is to tr$ to dissolve the percentagesof the people in the store that are for the

union.

See =ames. =ames is another new hire.!'m not even sure who that is.

+ut $ou "now, that's


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#he compan$ does ever$thing that it can andthat means %-A#6!-). %nd the$ will "ill it

*the$'ll "ill the campaign.

Walmart winning out, as $ou said, seventeento one, &ut the union sa$s*

*!t's not a fair &attle, it's not accordingto the -ational La&or Belations %ct *&ut when

the$ 5nd that there's a campaign going on,ever$thing that can &e done *fair or unfair,

legal *ma$&e not so legal *is done to "eepthe union out.

Walmart was ver$ luc"$ to acHuire two reall$good companies. +ut of course the$ were alread$

unionied. Walmart had no choice. +ecauseof the union, we get thirt$ six da$s of vacation

per $ear. suall$ people ta"e three wee"sin the summer, three wee"s in the spring.

!t depends.

Aou can split $our vacations into two or threetimes per $ear. Or even more often, if $ou

prefer.

4$


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and more seniors than wor" at an$ other compan$in %merica. Walmart o?ers the right


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what is expected at this particular store,the$ are going to lose their


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serve the countr$ well over man$ $ears, peopleshould &e paid for the wor" the$ do. Walmart

currentl$ faces lawsuits in @0 di?erent statesfor wage and hour a&uses, potentiall$ involving

hundreds of thousands of wor"ers. %s a storemanager, $ou're responsi&le for reducing $our

expenses ever$ single month, and the onl$wa$ to do that is to "eep the associates num&ers

down. ! was given a&out 01 hours a wee", andthat's


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Walmart will 5le their motion toda$ and ifa


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!'m +ett$, !'m a Walmart associate, ! lovewor"ing at Walmart. ! love that the$ pa$ me

less than him, &ecause that means ! can'ta?ord to eat as much. %nd ! get to "eep m$

5gure. =im got promoted to management overme, &ut that's o"a$ cause he's a cutie. Aou

go get him, hone$ When ! applied for theasst. manager's training program, ! didn't

get an$ response &ac" at all. ! went throughever$thing ! had done for m$ store manager,

and ! had done it li"e $ou would do a chec"list,said $ou told me to do this, ! did it,. 6e

agreed on it, and ! said so now ! want what$ou promised me, he


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what happened to me, !


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attached to $our emplo$ees and the$'re ver$

important to $ou. We alwa$s had a ChristmasPart$ or dinner where all the emplo$ees came

and we'd close the stores. %nd ever$ da$ afterschool !'d get o? the &us and run up to the

store &ecause we lived a couple &loc"s fromit. #his was left over from when we closed

down the stores in the late 1G's. ! don't&elieve it's fair the wa$ that Walmart has

come in with the funding that the$ get toput their sewers, roads, par"ing signals,

grass etc in compared to what the independentretailer gets, no ! don't &elieve it's fair.

Certainl$ it isn't fair, and ! thin" he atone time did go tal" to them in Cameron and

sa$, if we're going to run a &usiness herecan $ou help usI no the$ couldn't do thatN

! don't thin" it's fair to help them to &uildroads for their &usiness and at the same time

the store open puts others out of &usiness.#he competition we're up against hasn't caused

a pro&lem as much as the competition &einghelped &$ our government. 7rom one level to

the other the$ get all the &rea"s. Walmartis coming in and is pushing us out. We "now

$ou give them tax a&atements, will $ou giveus tax a&atementsI %nd no the$ couldn't do

that, so the count$ nor the cit$ would dothat. %nd ever$one "new it was unfair, &ut

we couldn't do an$thing. !'m sure water, an$of that stu?, as far as ! "now we didn't

receive a dime from the cit$, count$ or an$place li"e that. !f $ou tell them that $ou

don't want them in $our cit$ limits there'snothing to stop them from &u$ing 5ve acres

outside the cit$ limits, hoo"ing up to rural


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water and having all the negative e?ects

on the cit$ and none of the positive e?ects.!n Cameron, it too" JG of our &usiness and

a&out 0N@ of our &usiness here in 6amilton.!n +roo"5eld it too" over :G of our &usiness

overnight. !t's hard to ma"e those pa$mentswith a wholesaler having pro&lems themselves,

so ever$thing culminating in ever$one havingpro&lem's. #o pa$ emplo$ees $ou use the cash

from the inventor$ and then $ou didn't havean$ inventor$. !n the process of all this

! had to &orrow mone$ to put into stores andwith the farm as collateral. !t went down

from there. So we had no recourse &ut to


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!t might happen that wa$ and ! hope it doesn't

for our children's sa"e, &ut it could &e realserious, &e a revolution, ! won't sa$ it'd

&e a civil war &ut it'd &e a revolution and! don't thin" an$&od$ wants that. !'m >im

4arcetta and !'m a Jth and :th grade &ilingualteacher in (enver CO at -ewman Elementar$

School, and Walmart received su&sidies ofa&out 0.8 million dollars and with that our

(enver metropolitan area, that could've "eptthe three schools we closed this $ear open.

!'m 4onica =e?erson, !'m a speechNlanguagepathologist and ! wor" for special school

district of St. Louis count$. Walmart receivesover @0 million dollars in su&sid$ from the

4o. government. Cathedral Cit$ made a 0.Fmillion dollar investment &ut &ecause of Wal*4art's

lies and not stepping up to the plate withtheir commitments, we're short on policemen,

we're short on 5reman, we've eliminate therecreation commission of the cit$, we're not

a&le to provide the services to our servicesto the residents that the$ need and deserve

and we're going to have lives hanging in the&alance &ecause we're not going to &e a&le

to provide these services. 4$ name is Charles6aas !'ve &een a Jth grade teacher in Washington

state for man$ $ears and when ! thin" of themillion dollars that Walmart received for

its distri&ution center, and what we could&e don't there for students it's outrageous.

#a"ing revenue awa$ from our communit$ thatwill have a direct impact on our a&ilit$ to

continue to provide some level of service.!n !llinois, Walmart has received 0GG million

dollars in su&sidies and that has a?ected


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our school s$stems that mone$ could go into

our school s$stems to rehire all of the supportteachers we need &ac", the support personnel,

we could have our ps$chologist &ac" out socialwor"ers &ac", our counselors &ac", we could

pic" up and these programs are &eing cut &ecauseWalmart has received su&sidied. What we're

experiencing currentl$ is that Walmart hasfor &usiness purposes have decide that the$

are going to leave our communit$. #he$'removing 3 miles awa$. -ot ver$ far awa$, in

fact one is &eing &uilt on the propert$ lineof our cit$ which we still will not receive

an$ &ene5t from. =ust outside the cit$ limits.=ust as we were a&out to start to receive

a &etter part of the sales tax revenue, fromthe deal, we found out that we'd &een the

chumps. #o end it with a vacant &uilding ofthe sie that most &usinesses cannot 5ll.

So $ou have a huge &uilding that sits vacantfor months

and $ears.

Aou "now, responsi&le citienship also meansloo"ing out for the environment. We can ma"e

a di?erence in this area's sustaina&ilit$.One of the most exciting things a&out the

Biver"eeper organiation is wor"ing with thepu&lic. We have a lot of volunteers that volunteer

to "eep their part of the Cataw&a Biver. +ecausethe Cataw&a Biver's dammed 00 times and has

00 la"es on it. We have la"es with coves andso we call our volunteers cove*"eepers. %nd

these cove*"eepers want to safeguard and protectthe Cataw&a Biver. Essentiall$ what we did

was an investigation and we visited a&outseven Walmarts in the Cataw&a Biver alle$


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to see what their environmental practiceswere and


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called, so again ! called &ac", this time! called their attorne$s and said loo" !'m

not getting an answer from an$one at corporateWalmart and &ecause ! haven't !'m gonna start

a we& &log, and ever$ contact ! have with$ou !'m going to put on m$ we&site and report

what $our response it. %nd if there's no response,that's what's going to &e on our we&site.

So that's what ! did. #wo or three da$s later,the$ still didn't call &ac" we then sent them

the law, and ! elevated the rhetoric and said

it appears to us as if $ou're violating the

storage laws, and we're getting read$ to contactour attorne$s, still no one called, 5nall$

the attorne$s gave me the name of a personthat the$ thought was their contact and !

5nall$ reached that person at Walmart 6eadHuartersin %r"ansas, and he said he had


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had them pull those chemicals from the par"inglots and put them under cover. %s ! read the

case histor$ and all the environmental crimesand particularl$ the consent decrees from

the attorne$ general's oce ordering Walmartto esta&lish &etter environmental protection,

what ;a&&ergasted me most a&out the lac"of corporate response was their apparent disregard

for these consent decrees and the$ had notta"en them ver$ seriousl$. !t's onl$ the local

gu$s. ! can sa$ in m$ histor$ as river "eeper,

! don't thin" !'ve ever encountered a corporation,

&e it a power compan$, an oil compan$, asunresponsive as Walmart. Wildlife conservation

is ver$ important to me, &ut it's reall$ excitingwhen a compan$ li"e Walmart ma"es it a priorit$,

too.

We have a great relationship with the Chinesegovernment. #he$ have treated us ver$ fairl$

in and what the$ have done. #he$ actuall$,much li"e in the S% hold us to a higher standard

*higher standard of sanitation, higher standardof emplo$ment.

4$ name is Wend$. ! am 30 $ears old. ! amfrom the Shenhai province.

4$ famil$ plants corn, paddies and potato.

! wanted to earn some mone$ so that their

life could &e easier.

%t least, ! didn't want their life to &e toohard.

#he$ would wor" from dawn until night.

#he$ would &egin to wor" on the farm at da$&rea",and wouldn't get &ac" until night.

! thought a&out wor"ing in the factor$ when! was in middle school. %t the time, ! thought


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it would &e exciting and interesting to wor"in the factor$.

! left m$ home town on %pril 31 this $ear,and then &egan to loo" for a


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go to >arao"e singing songs and listen to

music.

We tend to rent a room outside and coo" &$ourselves &ecause the meals o?ered &$ the

factor$ are reall$ disgusting.

6owever the dilemma is whether $ou livein the dorms at the factor$ allocated or not,

the$ alwa$s deduct the rent for our wages*$ou have no choice &ut to live inside.

if $ou're going to move out of the dorms thefactor$ will tell $ou * $ou can move out and

we will not charge $ouelectricit$ or water, &ut rent will still

&e charged.

Aou see, if we live inside the dorm we pa$not onl$ the rent, &ut also the utilities

* which is charged &$ how much he use.

#here are ver$ few fans installed in m$ current

wor"shop. !t is extremel$ hot inside. !f the$

plan to install a new fan, then the otherswill tell us that we can onl$ have one fan,

or the fans that are there.

!n m$ wor"ing position, there is no wind atall. Can $ou imagine *!'m sitting there and

dripping with sweat all da$ long. 4$ &od$

never gets dr$.

Walmart informed the factor$ that it was goingto send people here for the inspection, and

the$ will tell us how to lie for the inspection.

7or example, the wor"ers must respond, Dsixda$sD, when as"ed how man$ da$s the$ wor"ed

* even though the$ actuall$ wor"ed for sevenda$s.

#he wor"ers don't dare to sa$ an$thing wrong,


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&ecause we're reall$ afraid of &eing punished

&$ managers.

4anagement has a meeting in advance and hasa meeting to teach us how to lie. !f $ou lie

well, $ou'll &e rewarded. !f not, $ou'll &epunished or 5red.

#he wor"er is given a fa"e pa$ slip, and the$never let $ou have the chance to spea" out

the truth, &ut threaten $ou to deliver falseinformation.

We reall$ wor"ed da$ and night in order to

get the wage of less than three dollars per

da$. 4$ mom wants me &ac" home &ecause shefeels it's too toilsome, &ut ! don't thin"

so.

Ever$&od$ else here has the same situationas me. !f the$ can do this ! can do it also.

!'ll thin" a&out m$ mom when ! am ver$ tired.!t would &e wonderful if she could &e with

me. She ta"es care of me ver$ well when !'msic". She'll let me have a good rest, and

coo"s an$thing that !'d li"e to eat. She'sreall$ ver$ nice to me.

! would respectfull$ li"e to as" the &ossof Walmart to give the Chinese wor"ers some

consideration, and a chance for a little time

o?.

Customers Walmart *when $ou wear expensiveclothes, when $our children pla$ with high

Hualit$ to$sthin" a&out china and the far east.

#hose pro5ts $ou made and the wonderful life$ou have are the sweat and tears and overtime

wor"ing

of Chinese people.


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!f one da$ in camera lad$ who


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are more li"el$ to contact $ou. %nd we have

a we have ver$ aggressive program underwa$to ma"e sure *and have had now for the last

couple of $ears.

! was )lo&al Services 4anager for 4exico,Central and South %merica. 4$


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! led more Walmart cheers than


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the$'re paid well...

4ade in the S%. !t means something.4ade in the S%. 4eans a


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#rade Center and Pentagon, the$ apparentl$

decided that the$ needed to have a &un"er.#here is a facilit$ for the Walton famil$

in case of an apocal$ptic attac" *a residencethat the$ can live in and reside in, in case

the$ had to do that. #here's a helipad &ehindthe facilit$ &ac" there, where the$ can come

in &$ helicopter, and there's satellites dishes&ehind the facilit$. %nd most of it is underground.

%s $ou can see, $ou can't reall$ see muchfrom the gate, which is all forti5ed.

7aith means nothing at all, if it does notinvolve us loving one another as neigh&ors,

in compassion for the poor.

When $ou hear these &ells at Walmart, do $ouremem&er the people who the$'re ringing forI

#he$ remind us of our friends and neigh&orswho could use a little help.

#hat's wh$ at Walmart, we give &ac" throughout

the holida$s and all $ear long.

Of course the most important &ene5ciar$ ofthis store is our customer. !t's the customer

who lives in that neigh&orhood.

! was actuall$ selling cars for a&out sixmonths, &ut prior to that ! actuall$ had m$

own &usiness, ! was doing m$ own wood 5nishing

on &oats. %nd ! actuall$ did Huite well at

that. So, !'m getting a little too old forthat.

!f ! was going to go through all that ! wentthrough, ! want something to come out of it.

Something good. #here was a truc" on one sidethat had a camp shell and there was a van

to one side, and ! thought, $'"now. !'ve alwa$s

said $ou "now $ou don't want to &e in the


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spot where no&od$ can see $ou. +ut ! thought,D7our car spaces from the front door.D %nd

! thought the$ had securit$ outside. O"a$,well ! should &e 5ne. %nd uh, when ! got

out, there was two of them.

nfortunatel$ he caught me. ! got outside&ut he caught me. %nd thats when ! realied

he had a gun, &ecause he had a gun and hewas holding me. %nd thats when the$ told me,

D)et &ac" in the car or !'m going to &low$our head o?D.

#he $ear &efore, when ! wor"ed at the phonecompan$, we had a safet$ meeting. %nd it was

around Christmas time. %nd the$ had the Sheri?'sdepartment out there. %nd the$ were tal"ing

a&out, if $ou're ever in a par"ing lot andthis happens, what do $ou doI (on't go with

them. !f $ou go with them, $ou're li"el$ notgoing to live. +ecause statisticall$, that's

what happens. #he$'ll "ill $ou. #hat's what5rst went through m$ mind *that !'m not going

to survive this. m... Sorr$. m... so thatis wh$ the decision to


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#he police did recommend on site securit$.%nd that there was none. #hat the$ had assured

the people in the neigh&orhood that the$ wouldprovide securit$ and ma"e sure it was safe

for the neigh&orhood, and that wasn't done.

!t was evident that Walmart "new the$ hadsu&stantial pro&lems in their par"ing lot.

Walmart was aware that the maorene"in the store's par"ing lot.

% &old and deadl$ shooting *it happened thismorning at the Walmart.

% #a$lor woman is recovering tonight after5ghting a thief in a Walmart par"ing lot.

% man is arrested after a tire iron attac"*it happened in a par"ing lot of this Walmart.

#wo teenaged wor"ers shot while gatheringcarts in the par"ing lot $esterda$ at this

)lendale Walmart.

!t happened at 09JF this morning in the Walmart

par"ing lot in Biverdale.


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that we have the a&ilit$, through our democrac$,

to ta"e power. %nd ta"e control. %nd actuall$hold the companies accounta&le. %s a nation

in this world, the most powerful, the mostaRuent *we have the power to ma"e sure that

all have what the$ need.

#hat this is not some pie in the s"$ vision,&ut instead *this is our call as Christians

to ma"e this happen. 4$ neigh&ors and ! wentand handmade some little posters and we decided

that we were going to have a meeting in the

local par", which was a&out a &loc" from here.

We had no idea how man$ people would showup. We were a&solutel$ amaed *and all of

them wanted to do something.

!n the &eginning, there was onl$ a few ofus *not a lot of people came to the meetings,

onl$ some supermar"et wor"ers, and a coupleof churches * remem&erI %nd then, little &$

little, more people, until the$ started feelingthe pressure.

#he$ wanted to &uild a Walmart in this wholepar"ing lot *it was going to &e two hundred

and 5fteen thousand sHuare feet. %nd therewas going to &e*

Walmart was going to ta"e this whole space,

and li"e seventeen foot&all 5elds &ig. %nd

the$ were going to &uild one &ig &ox thatwas Walmart, and then little stores in &etween.

%nd then another &ig &ox with Sam's clu&.

We volunteer to do the various chores thatwe had, and then we solicited what ! call

a core committee, that was a group of peoplewho would &e responsi&le for the strateg$,

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needed to &e done to organie our campaign.

So then the coalition started getting &iggerand &igger, and &efore $ou "new it *ever$&od$

signed up, li"e the$ were part of a coalitionfor a &etter !nglewood. #he$ were standing

up to defend the communit$.

%nd ! thin" the other lesson learned in !nglewoodis that there's no magic potion to suddenl$

put this together and suddenl$ $ou're goingto win. !t's a hard process, there are a lot

of things that $ou have to put in place *&ut

when $ou put those things in place, $ou can

win.

!t includes the a&ilit$ to organie regularpeople *small &usiness owners, wor"ers.

We got our message focused, we've hammeredawa$ on the phones, hammered awa$ on doors,

people saw us coming and going when the$ wentto church. Ever$ time the$ went to a store

in !nglewood, there was a ;$er a&out oure?orts. We held rallies.

% legal strateg$ enough resources to havethe research to &e a&le to ma"e $our case.

#o &e a&le to have the materials.

!t includes the a&ilit$ to get $our messageto the press, and to do media events.

We grew to 0F8 volunteers, and we had plotcaptains, and we had an area chairman, we

proceeded to collect signatures on our petitions.

%nd we started out with 5fteen hundred signatures,and &$ the time we got through, we had four

thousand signatures. %nd the$ were all frompeople within our *what ! call our area code.

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!nglewood is the 5rst test for Walmart'sam&itious plans in California, and activists

sa$ the sta"es here are huge.

#his is li"e )odilla eats #o"$o. #his ismuch &igger than (avid and )oliath.

%ll of the information that was coming fromWalmart "ept sa$ing its a done deal, there's

nothing $ou can do a&out, we have our oning,don't waste $our time. +ut we "new &etter.

#hen, we had numerous pu&lic meetings to letthe pu&lic "now what was happening, what the

status was.

!t was not li"e the$ came into the small townsin the south, or towns that have no &usiness,

and the$ &rought in &usiness. -o, no no, thisis something completel$ di?erent.

#he$ represent from +entonville, %r"ansas,plantation capitalism. #he future of this

communit$ depends on our a&ilit$ to stop the

monster in its trac"s.

Walmart sponsored the &allot initiative after!nglewood cit$ council opposed &uilding a

Walmart super center on the site. #oda$, Walmartopponents charged the initiative, measure

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We went out on the streets and doing the wor"to ensure the people understood that to those

who much has &een given, much will &e expected.

!'m sure the Walton famil$ &elieves that the$'rea good, Christian famil$. +ut ! thin" the$'re

going to ma"e &illions at the expense of poorwor"ers. %nd !'m sure there's a lot of people

who thin" that the$'re good, Christian companies.-ot if the$'re going to ma"e mone$ o? the

&ac"s of the people who are su?ering.

% lot of people sacri5ced an awful lot tohave the freedoms that we have. %nd that ;ag

to me represents all of our freedoms. Ourfreedom to 5ght Walmart, our freedom to live

where we want to, wor" where we want to, havea sa$ in our government.

#he$ can sa$ and &elieve whatever the$ wanta&out $'"now, tric"le down theories of capital,

and whatever nonsense the$ want to invent,to hold onto their capital. +ut, um, that's

not our option. +ut as Christians we don'thave that option. #hat's not our option. #hat

we're not a&out capital. #hat we're a&outpeople.

We came &efore cit$ council for the 5nalvote, and the council voted six, nothing to

den$ Walmart and the developer the right to&uild the store on that propert$.

Besidents of !nglewood, California, are votingtoda$. On whether to approve the construction

of a new shopping development dominated &$Walmart.

#he other night we gathered at a local restaurant,hoping for a miracle. +ut &raced to go &ac"

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%nd now, the votes were coming in on a proposedWalmart superstore in !nglewood.

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#his one group of people too" on a giant andwon.

! thin" it was reall$ meaningful.

(avid +eat )oliath (avid +eat )oliath

#he

cit$ council

of 4onroeville, Penns$lvania handed Walmarttheir hat toda$.

Walmart pac"s its &ags in Co&& Count$, )eorgia.

Communit$ resistance paid o? in 6ic"or$,-orth Carolina, Walmart hit the road.

%nti*Walmart Candidates sweep the 6elotes,#exas election.

%nother trip down the long and dust$ for Walmart

in +iloxi, 4ississippi.

When $ou have a group of people, a small groupof people, who don't want $ou in a communit$

*does that mean $ou aren't going to go thereI

#hornton, Colorado defeated Walmart.

Plain5eld, !llinois.

Las egas, -evada defeated Walmart.

When $ou have a small group of people that don't want $ou in a communit$.

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