Working Families e-Activist Network

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Dear Working Families e-Activist,
Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Order the PBS Frontline documentary “Is Wal-Mart Good for America?” now.

As the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart is setting the standard for America’s workplaces—and it’s a standard of low wages, poor benefits and worker abuse. Learn more about the Wal-Mart way of doing business and how this one retail giant is changing the American economy in the PBS Frontline documentary “Is Wal-Mart Good for America?”
Order this 60-minute documentary in VHS or DVD format now from The Union Shop Online—the AFL-CIO’s retail store for working family activists. Click on the link below:

In "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?", correspondent Hedrick Smith examines Wal-Mart as a global force changing the balance of power in the business world—and leaving workers behind. You’ll hear from an IBEW member who worked at television manufacturer Thomson Industries and see Rubbermaid’s equipment auctioned off to Chinese buyers, illustrating what many consider Wal-Mart’s strong-arm tactics on suppliers to lower prices that have driven jobs from once-solid American companies to low-wage operations overseas.
You must see this show before you shop.
Think about hosting a “watch party” at your home, union hall or community center so you and friends or co-workers can get together to watch “Is Wal-Mart Good for America?” and talk about what shoppers looking for bargains really buy at Wal-Mart: low wages, poor benefits, discrimination, workers’ rights violations and union-busting. Click on the link below to order the documentary now:

Let other working family activists know they can order “Is Wal-Mart Good for America?” from The Union Shop Online by forwarding this e-mail.
Enjoy the documentary—and enjoy your shopping at The Union Shop Online, where you can always find high-quality, union-made-in-the-USA gear and gifts.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIOJune 1, 2005