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Wal-Mart caught once again for misusing young workers
| Mexican teenagers work without wages:
Wal-Mart is doing well in Mexico, at least if one is to believe the company itself. But once again, reality is catching up with the US retail giant. According to Newsweek magazine, the Bentonville-based multinational employs thousands of young people to pack its customers' bags. But the 4,300 young teenagers don't receive any pay from Wal-Mart. Once again, Wal-Mart succeeds to defend its position as the undisputed leader of the pack when it comes to violating fundamental workers' rights. To make use of the enormous social problems in Mexico by taking on impoverished children to do the work, but making them rely only on tips from customers, is immoral. This behaviour should once again send a signal that Wal-Mart and walmartization must be stopped. For those who may have thought that Wal-Mart's social dumping and denying its workers a decent income and social benefits is a US problem, this exploitation of Mexican youngsters should be an eye-opener. Walmartization is a disease that spreads easily, as also Europeans have seen in the cases of Lidl, Schlecker and other employers. And in Korea today, we see a really grotesque example in the bitter fight that E.Land's workers have to engage themselves in to protect their jobs.
For more stories and pictures on the E.Land workers' struggle, go to the dedicated UNI Commerce webpage:
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