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"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." -- Kin Hubbard
In This Issue
Workers get snappy new uniforms, and have to pay for them
Why Wal-Mart is still one down and dirty corporation
Also in this issue:
- GEORGE W’S WAR LEGACY
- FIVE-DAY WORKWEEK FOR CONGRESS
- STATEHOUSES FLIP TO DEMOCRATS
- Wal-Mart’s White House Sweetheart
- The Revolving Door
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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The Revolving Door
Despite its rock-bottom wages, Wal-Mart has extraordinarily high labor costs. Because employees don’t stay, the company must constantly recruit and train replacements—a costly process. Nearly threefourths of its employees quit in their first year, and the company-wide turnover rate for its 1.3 million workers is 50% each year.