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Are you a Walmart worker?
2018 Walmart Shareholders Meeting

Doug McMillon

2018 Walmart Shareholders Meeting

For the first time in Walmart shareholder meeting history, Walmart’s top 1% has changed the rules to exclude the majority of Walmart workers from being present during business proposal votes on wage transparency and other issues that affect them on a daily basis, further silencing the voice of Walmart workers. Which begs the question…

What is Walmart Hiding? 

Click here to read the 12 Things Walmart is Hiding from Its Shareholders and the American Public

Click here to read the The Growing Wage Divide Between Walmart’s Top 1% and its Workers

Two More Walmart Board Members Resign; Five Gone in Last Two Years

April 24, 2014

Christopher WilliamsIn another sign of the growing pressure from Walmart workers and their allies, Walmart announced in its annual proxy statement (a report filed with the SEC in advance of the annual shareholders meeting) yesterday that two long-time board members would be stepping down. The two board members are former Walmart CEO Lee Scott, Jr. and independent board member and Audit Committee chairman Christopher Williams.

Walmart could decide not to be America’s biggest food stamp recipient

April 7, 2014

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the food stamp program, now known as SNAP, which one in seven Americans now relies on to have enough to eat. As Marketplace reported last week, Walmart is the biggest beneficiary of this taxpayer-funded subsidy: It brings in the largest share of food stamp dollars of any retailer, about $13 billion in 2013. Walmart even acknowledged the significance of SNAP to the company in the annual report it released three weeks ago.

OUR Walmart issues open letter to new CEO McMillon

February 3, 2014

As the Wall Street Journal reported last week, new Walmart CEO Doug McMillon “woke up Thursday morning to find a personal message from worker advocates asking for better pay and treatment splashed across a full page ad in his hometown newspaper,” the Benton County Daily Record.

The (Not So) New Face of Walmart

January 31, 2014

Doug McMillonTomorrow, Doug McMillon will become the fifth CEO of Walmart and the youngest to have the job since Sam Walton himself. Before him will be the monumental task of steering the retail giant back on course and into public favor.

What will Walmart’s Q4 earnings look like?

January 14, 2014

With disappointing earnings reports in Q1, Q2, and Q3, Walmart brass had its collective fingers tightly crossed for a good 2013 Christmas season.

Winning friends & influencing people, Walmart style

November 12, 2013

Granted, it’s an old book, but after recent public gaffes, maybe Walmart should consider passing out Dale Carnegie’s classic “How to Win Friends and Influence People” at the next Saturday morning in Bentonville.