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Tell Wal-Mart: Zero Tolerance on Child Labor
Target: Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-MartSponsored by: WakeUpWalMart.com
Wal-Mart has repeatedly violated U.S. child labor laws and profited from overseas child labor abuses.
A recent investigation revealed children, some only 11 years old, were making Wal-Mart clothes in a Bangladesh factory. The children report being routinely slapped and beaten, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, often seven days a week, for wages as low as 6 and a half cents an hour.
In the United States, Wal-Mart's own internal audit found 1,371 instances in which minors worked too late at night, during school hours, or too many hours in a day. It also found 60,767 instances of workers missing breaks and 15,705 instances where employees were forced to work and miss meal times.
Despite all of this, Wal-Mart refuses to adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor! Our children deserve better from Wal-Mart. This holiday season, tell Wal-Mart to adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor.
A recent investigation revealed children, some only 11 years old, were making Wal-Mart clothes in a Bangladesh factory. The children report being routinely slapped and beaten, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, often seven days a week, for wages as low as 6 and a half cents an hour.
In the United States, Wal-Mart's own internal audit found 1,371 instances in which minors worked too late at night, during school hours, or too many hours in a day. It also found 60,767 instances of workers missing breaks and 15,705 instances where employees were forced to work and miss meal times.
Despite all of this, Wal-Mart refuses to adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor! Our children deserve better from Wal-Mart. This holiday season, tell Wal-Mart to adopt a zero tolerance policy on child labor.
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1:15 pm PDT, Aug 31,
Kaytie Irvine, California
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9:49 am PDT, Aug 31,
Holly Sullivan, California
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10:26 pm PDT, Aug 30,
Debra Harpole, Missouri
I can't believe that I would even have to explain why they should adopt this policy, it should be a no brainer! Children should not be made a slave for manufacturers or anyone, they should be in school learning and live their childhood as a child should! Shame on Walmart for being a part of such an atrocity! I have shoppped Walmart infrequently in the past, but will discontinue doing this, until I hear that they have stopped this practice of using child labor!
I can't believe that I would even have to explain why they should adopt this policy, it should be a no brainer! Children should not be made a slave for manufacturers or anyone, they should be in school learning and live their childhood as a child should! Shame on Walmart for being a part of such an atrocity! I have shoppped Walmart infrequently in the past, but will discontinue doing this, until I hear that they have stopped this practice of using child labor!
# 23,445:
4:32 pm PDT, Aug 30,
Nora Ni., Arizona
Walmart used to be like my second home, until now. I cant believe they would even do this!!! Come on, Walmart!!! I didn't even think Walmart would support such a thing!!
Walmart used to be like my second home, until now. I cant believe they would even do this!!! Come on, Walmart!!! I didn't even think Walmart would support such a thing!!
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2:10 am PDT, Aug 30,
Esther Howell, Florida
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4:03 pm PDT, Aug 29,
Annette Weakley, Virginia
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8:57 am PDT, Aug 29,
Patricia Harmon, Rhode Island
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7:43 am PDT, Aug 29,
Jennifer Smith, Tennessee
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7:24 pm PDT, Aug 28,
Katherine Haby, Texas
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11:30 am PDT, Aug 28,
Sandy Wagner, Iowa
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10:11 am PDT, Aug 28,
Rhonda Zorn, Kentucky
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9:49 pm PDT, Aug 27,
Rachelle Hademenos, Texas
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11:15 am PDT, Aug 27,
Naresh Chowdary, India
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11:14 am PDT, Aug 27,
Brad Carlson, Indiana
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4:34 am PDT, Aug 27,
Natasa Aleksic, Germany
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8:25 pm PDT, Aug 26,
Brenda Vazquez, Massachusetts
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7:58 pm PDT, Aug 26,
Melanie Sementilli, Texas
this is wrong on so many levels. Walmart is nothing but a dirty shady greedy corporation. I am banning your store from my families use.
this is wrong on so many levels. Walmart is nothing but a dirty shady greedy corporation. I am banning your store from my families use.
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7:35 pm PDT, Aug 26,
Greta Ratliff, Kentucky
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5:21 pm PDT, Aug 26,
Jeannette Yafanaro, Costa Rica
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11:00 am PDT, Aug 26,
Akashah Adamson, Colorado
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9:37 am PDT, Aug 26,
Gilda Davis aka Lestat, Florida
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7:11 am PDT, Aug 26,
Derek Wilcox, United Kingdom
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2:55 am PDT, Aug 26,
Rae Mayatt, United Kingdom
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11:56 pm PDT, Aug 25,
Mohammad Abujabara, Kuwait
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2:37 pm PDT, Aug 25,
Julie Nelson, North Carolina
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11:48 pm PDT, Aug 24,
Carolyn Tonahill, Louisiana
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4:18 pm PDT, Aug 24,
Michele R., Florida
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2:58 pm PDT, Aug 24,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
This is completally unexceptable. It is true, WAKE-UP WAL-MART! Please. If there can be nothing worse your products are cheap, and now you are violating all these causes, WHEN YOU HAVE THE POWER AND CHANCE TO HELP FIX IT. WAKE UP! AND ADOPT THE 0 TOLERANCE!!!! Good lords. Please help these poor children, they should go on strike, but then YOU'D BE STUPIDLY FOOLISHLY CRUEL TO THEM, MORE OVER AGAIN! DISPICABLE!
This is completally unexceptable. It is true, WAKE-UP WAL-MART! Please. If there can be nothing worse your products are cheap, and now you are violating all these causes, WHEN YOU HAVE THE POWER AND CHANCE TO HELP FIX IT. WAKE UP! AND ADOPT THE 0 TOLERANCE!!!! Good lords. Please help these poor children, they should go on strike, but then YOU'D BE STUPIDLY FOOLISHLY CRUEL TO THEM, MORE OVER AGAIN! DISPICABLE!
# 23,419:
2:56 am PDT, Aug 24,
Daniela Lazaroiu, Romania
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1:55 am PDT, Aug 24,
Vanessa Hutcheson, Texas
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1:54 am PDT, Aug 24,
Melissa Farthing, Ohio
It's bad enough that Wal-Mart DEMANDS prices that they will pay for products, which forces U.S. Companies to go overseas, to poorer Countries. But now they're allowing children to be used for labor? Oh come on! How far is Wal-Mart going to go? I tell you how far I'm willing to go, an extra 30 miles to another town, one that has more stores then just WAL-MART. So I don't "have" to shop there!
It's bad enough that Wal-Mart DEMANDS prices that they will pay for products, which forces U.S. Companies to go overseas, to poorer Countries. But now they're allowing children to be used for labor? Oh come on! How far is Wal-Mart going to go? I tell you how far I'm willing to go, an extra 30 miles to another town, one that has more stores then just WAL-MART. So I don't "have" to shop there!
# 23,416:
7:54 pm PDT, Aug 23,
Michael Owens, Virginia
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4:42 pm PDT, Aug 23,
Morgan Cromwell, Illinois
I do not and will not shop at Wal-Mart. I have no reason to believe that anything good comes from Wal-Mart with the vast destruction they cause to people's lives, the environment, and anything else that seems to get in their way. I have been boycotting Wal-Mart for years because of all the injustices and despicable business practices they use. Stop using child labor. Stop destroying people's lives. End your greed and think about the world around you. If Wal-Mart cared half as much for anything beyond making money for themselves, the world would be a better place.
I do not and will not shop at Wal-Mart. I have no reason to believe that anything good comes from Wal-Mart with the vast destruction they cause to people's lives, the environment, and anything else that seems to get in their way. I have been boycotting Wal-Mart for years because of all the injustices and despicable business practices they use. Stop using child labor. Stop destroying people's lives. End your greed and think about the world around you. If Wal-Mart cared half as much for anything beyond making money for themselves, the world would be a better place.
# 23,414:
1:57 am PDT, Aug 23,
Coco Nutty, Hawaii
I am not going to buy anything produced by children who were forced to work!! That means I am not buying from you until you stop supporting this.
I am not going to buy anything produced by children who were forced to work!! That means I am not buying from you until you stop supporting this.
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2:06 am PDT, Aug 22,
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10:23 pm PDT, Aug 21,
April Jarvis, West Virginia
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11:00 am PDT, Aug 21,
Susie Phelps, New York
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8:47 am PDT, Aug 21,
Patricio Leon, Venezuela
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7:55 am PDT, Aug 21,
Name not displayed, Oregon
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12:18 am PDT, Aug 21,
Mary Plaga, Australia
WHY?? I think because people will soon enough stop buying your products.
WHY?? I think because people will soon enough stop buying your products.
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2:53 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Minto Kandarappallil, Florida
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2:20 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Blair Miller, Florida
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2:09 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania