The Facts About Wal-Mart Wal-Mart recently launched a multi million-dollar advertising campaign to silence its critics and hide the truth about the company. Visit here for the REAL facts about Wal-Mart. Unsafe Toys? U.S. Corporate Policies and Wal-Mart Share Blame More than 13 million toys were recalled in the two months leading up to the 2007 holidays -- and Wal-Mart's push to produce goods overseas is a big part of the problem. Local 1776 and WakeUpWalMart.com carry campaign to the Allentown area Local 1776 brought its WakeUpWalMart.com Back to School campaign to the Allentown area on August 2, 2007, stopping at the Whitehall Plaza store on MacArthur Road. Wal-Mart Using Unpaid Children as Baggers in Mexico, Newsweek Reports The magazine details how the company makes more than $1.1 billion a year in profits in Mexico, but yet refuses to pay the minimum wage -- or anything -- to child baggers in its stores. Wal-Mart denies that the children are workers, yet it posts signs in its stores urging customers to tip the youngsters. AP Reports that Wal-Mart is Being 'Slammed' by Shrinkage, or Thefts Shoplifting, other thefts and low employee moral are taking a significsnt toll on Wal-Mart, according to this AP news report. Wal-Mart's Latest Ethics Controversy Business Week magazine describes how Wal-Mart is pressuring an employee who tried to do the right thing by whistleblowing. The employee must find a new job within the company, or the company will have to discuss "next steps." Do You Pay Taxes? If So, Chances Are That You Subsize Wal-Mart Read how Wal-Mart has enjoyed more than $200 million in state and local economic development deals just in the past three years while at the same time it shifts health care costs for its workers to taxpayers! Meanwhile, the company reported more than $12 billion in profits in 2006. 'Moms Deserve Better than Wal-Mart,' 1776 Says The Local takes part in a 43-city campaign to focus on Wal-Mart's failure to treat women and families fairly. Wal-Mart Continues to Ignore Its Own Growing Health Care Crisis Even as the company continues to produce profits exceeding $11 billion a year and as the CEO speaks at the Fourth Annual Health Care Congress, more than half of its workers and their families have no company-provided health care benefits. 'Put America First,' Labor and Civic Leaders Urge Wal-Mart They call on the compnay to end its opposition to the 100 percent scanning of cargo containers entering the United States. At right, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and Local 1776 President Wendell W. Young, IV. Wall Street Journal Says Wal-Mart Eavesdrops on Critics and Shareholders Investigative report says the company uses high technology to spy on community organizations, employees and consultants. The disclosure came from a former Wal-Mart employee who taped a New York Times reporter's calls -- and then was fired after working for Wal-Mart for 19 years. Customer Satisfaction Up Nationally -- But Not at Wal-Mart! Forbes Magazine website reports on new University of Michigan study showing Wal-Mart at bottom of satisfaction survey. International UFCW and Local 1776 Cite 'Postering' of Wal-Mart at its Health Care News Confe Joe Hansen, Wendell W. Young, IV and national news media point to the "empty gestures" of the company at its Feb. 7th Washington, DC media event. Court Tells Wal-Mart: Must Stand Trial on Largest-Ever Discrimination Case Wal-Mart Loses, Women Win: A Federal appeals panel orders the company to stand trial on a case involving as many as 1.5 million current and former female employees. California Orders Wal-Mart to Pay Pesticide Fees State's regulators say that Wal-Mart refuses to pay required fees Wal-Mart's "Organics" -- Are They Really Organic? A Wisconsin watch-dog group and state officials question the company's practices; USDA is investigating Wal-Mart Has Lowest Holiday Sales Growth in Six Years The company's poor performance contrasts with WakeUpWal-Mart.com's reaching a new high in supporters -- topping 300,000! Wal-Mart Workers in Miami, FL Suburb Stage Walk-Out New Scheduling Practices Cause Workers in the Hialeah, FL Wal-Mart to Walk Out of store Wal-Mart Says It Will Target Political Critics The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that Wal-Mart plans to distribute information to its employees about elected officials and candidates who have been critical of the company. Will the move backfire or violate corporate campaign contribution laws? WakeUpWalMart.com Denounces New Attacks Linking Democrats to Hezbollah Terrorists The latest irresponsible attack from Wal-Mart's War Room calls U.S. Senators "Hezbocrats" and continues the corporation's tactics of personal destruction. WakeUpWal-Mart.com Bus Tour Stops in Philadelphia Two events highlighted the third stop on the national 35-city "Change Wal-Mart, Change America" tour. In front of a standing-room only crowd at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House, leaders of the fastest growing peoples' movement in the nation outlined the progress they have made to enlist more than 250,000 people in the drive to make Wal-Mart a responsible corporate citizen. Then, more than 25 UFCW members and participants in the bus tour blanketed the 15th and Market Sts. area of Center City Philadelphia to handbill and sign up commuters for the drive to win a living wage and health care benefits for Wal-Mart workers. Wal-Mart Tied to Scheme To Hire Undocumented Workers to Clean Stores An investigation by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch finds that Wal-Mart executives, after a Federal raid, hatched a plan to use undocumented workers hired by subcontractors to clean stores. Why Wal-Mart Must Change The largest corporation in the world could set a positive standard for customers, workers and communities, instead of being the leading force in lowering wages and shipping jobs overseas. Wal-Mart Update Wal-Mart Drops from Top 10 'Most Admired"