With Labor Day approaching, a coalition of labor, environmental, consumer protection, and community groups are challenging Walmart to start practicing common-sense American values like workers’ rights, corporate responsibility and environmental stewardship:
Walmart is America’s store.
Walmart is America’s workplace.
Walmart is America’s town center.
Walmart must reflect America’s values.
Hard work should bring pay and benefits that can support families.
Workers have rights that even the largest employer must recognize and respect.
Our nation, our states and our localities have standards that must be obeyed regardless of the size or wealth of the corporation.
Our environment must be protected and products must be sustainable for our families and our future.
We challenge Walmart on Labor Day 2009 to an American Values Agenda for Change.
As part of that challenge, the coalition this morning rolled out two new TV ads (ad #1, ad #2) contrasting Walmart economics with common-sense economics: