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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Real Facts About Wal-Mart </span><!--bold--><br /> Wal-Mart recently launched a multi million-dollar advertising campaign to silence its critics and hide the truth about the company. The following are the REAL facts about Wal-Mart. <br /> <br /> <br /> Wal-Mart Wages and Worker Rights <br /> Wal-Mart Health Care <br /> Wal-Mart's Cost to Taxpayers <br /> Wal-Mart's Community Impact <br /> Wal-Mart and China <br /> Wal-Mart and Worker Injuries <br /> Other Wal-Mart Benefits <br /> Wal-Mart Anti-Union Policy <br /> Wal-Mart and Gender Discrimination <br /> Wal-Mart and Child Labor <br /> Wal-Mart and Undocumented Immigrants <br /> Wal-Mart and Port Security <br /> <br /> Wal-Mart Wages and Worker Rights<br /> Download the Wal-Mart and Wages flyer - PDF <br /> <br /> A Substantial Number of Wal-Mart Associates earn far below the poverty line <br /> <br /> In 2001, sales associates, the most common job in Wal-Mart, earned on average $8.23 an hour for annual wages of $13,861. The 2001 poverty line for a family of three was $14,630. ["Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?", Business Week, 10/6/03, US Dept of Health and Human Services 2001 Poverty Guidelines, 2001] <br /> A 2003 wage analysis reported that cashiers, the second most common job, earn approximately $7.92 per hour and work 29 hours a week. This brings in annual wages of only $11,948. ["Statistical Analysis of Gender Patterns in Wal-Mart's Workforce", Dr. Richard Drogin 2003] <br /> Wal-Mart Associates don't earn enough to support a family <br /> <br /> The average two-person family (one parent and one child) needed $27,948 to meet basic needs in 2005, well above what Wal-Mart reports that its average full-time associate earns. Wal-Mart claimed that its average associate earned $9.68 an hour in 2005. That would make the average associate's annual wages $17,114. ["Basic Family Budget Calculator" online at http://www.epinet.org/] <br /> Wage increases would cost Wal-Mart relatively little <br /> <br /> Wal-Mart can cover the cost of a dollar an hour wage increase by raising prices a half penny per dollar. For instance, a $2.00 pair of socks would then cost $2.01. This minimal increase would annually add up to $1,800 for each employee. [Analysis of Wal-Mart Annual Report 2005] <br /> Wal-Mart forces employees to work off-the-clock <br /> <br /> Wal-Mart's 2006 Annual Report reported that the company faced 57 wage and hour lawsuits. Major lawsuits have either been won or are working their way through the legal process in states such as California, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. [Wal-Mart Annual Report 2006] <br /> In December 2005, a California court ordered Wal-Mart to pay $172 million in damages for failing to provide meal breaks to nearly 116,000 hourly workers as required under state law. Wal-Mart appealed the case. [The New York Times, December 23, 2005] <br /> A Pennsylvania court, also in December 2005, approved a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by employees in Pennsylvania who say the company pressured them to work off the clock. The class could grow to include nearly 150,000 current or former employees. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 12, 2006 ] <br /> In Pennsylvania, the lead plaintiff alleges she worked through breaks and after quitting time