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Hillary*Mart

There has been much discussion on the exportation of jobs and some service industries. One of the voices in the crowd is that of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. A former First Lady and corporate litigator.

What she has failed to mention for a very long time is exactly a. why she was on Wal*Mart's Board and b. if she really did call for changes in company policies c. why does she refuse to discuss it now? See the Village Voice.

While I have never been a big Hillary fan, this pushes me further from him. This topic was not in her book. This was not mentioned to any of the unions. How do they feel about her having sat on this board of a corporation that has the largest anti-union stance of any company in America? This is interesting because she also took campaign contributions from them. She claims to have returned those donations.

How can she claim to care about working families? Or did she decide to care about them when her husband became President? Don't worry Hillary about returning my donation because you won't be getting one from me now or ever.

Posted by Catherine on March 14, 2006
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Not only anti-union, but anti-woman, and just anti-employee all the way around. The number of class action suits against Wal-Mart may be an all-time record for one company. The union busting, the lack of equal pay, the refusal to pay disability, the denial of lunch breaks, the locking in of employees at night--the list goes on.

Yesterday, I saw a question-and-answer session with Angela Davis, and someone brought up the issue of Wal-Mart, and the argument some people use that if you boycott Wal-Mart (something I have done for years), you are hurting the people who work there. Davis's response, in so many words, was that if you shop there, you are still hurting the people who work there.

Remember when Wal-Mart's reputation for employment treatment reached an all-time low a couple of years ago? Who stepped forward to headline the corporation's "oh, but we love our employers" festival? Patti LaBelle (who was already on my permanent black list for being the spokeswoman for Premarin, a product that is terribly cruel to both horses and women). You'd think she would have known better, but the disconnect of these people is amazing.

Posted by: Diane | Mar 14, 2006 9:33:05 AM

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