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Journalist Rick Wartzman on Walmart: Good Intentions Are Not Enough

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The Politics of Shareholder Primacy

Walmart's stock price climbed to breathtaking heights while workers' salary stage shockingly low. Walmart became the target of two extraordinary union campaigns and they were not coordinated. One was from the United Food and Commercial Workers, which had been trying to organize Walmart for a long time unsuccessfully. They decided to begin to treat Walmart more as a political opponent almost in the public eye.

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