Letters To Editor – July 29th 2008

UNLESS otherwise noted, these letters are to be considered unedited. The opinions expressed in the letters and comments are those of the writers and not of The London Free Press.
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re: Not everyone can afford to oppose Wal-Mart
If it is indeed Wal-Mart’s intent to serve low-income people who cannot afford to waste “expensive gas” as [...]

Landmark Wal-Mart ruling released by Quebec arbitrator

Landmark Wal-Mart ruling released by Quebec arbitrator
Last Updated: Friday, August 15, 2008 | 11:44 AM ET Comments30Recommend32
CBC News
A Quebec arbitrator has imposed a collective agreement on Wal-Mart for the first time in the history of the world’s largest retailer.
The arbitrator released the decision Friday on the contract for [...]

Center Sues Wal-Mart Over Super-dirty Supercenter

San Bernardino Sun, July 31, 2008
Suits slap Supercenter
By Joe Nelson
YUCCA VALLEY – Two environmental groups have filed lawsuits against this town and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., challenging a planned Wal-Mart Supercenter.
In separate lawsuits filed Wednesday in San Bernardino County Superior Court, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Morongo Basin Conservation Association allege that bringing the [...]

Wal-Mart Is Telling Employees How to Vote | Sign the Petition

Today marks a new low for Wal-Mart. No, not low prices; low and dirty anti-worker tactics. We’ve known for years that Wal-Mart has violated labor and anti-discrimination laws and ruthlessly fought efforts by its workers to form unions. And now, according to The Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart is so intimidated by the very [...]

Meadowlily Public Meeting [August 29th] – Planning Dep’t Comments

Based on comments at the public meeting Tuesday, please see the attached link to all the technical studies submitted for this application:

http://www.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Planning/oz-7430application.htm
If members are trying to locate it on the website without the link – please try “City Hall”, “City Hall Departments”, “Land Use Planning”, “Possible Land Use Changes”, select “M-S” and [...]

Wal-Mart warns managers against Democrats

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Economic Impact of Wal-Mart PDF

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Revenge of the Second City – Kill the Juggermart, Part 2

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The Great American City Gets A Wal-Mart
On 26 May, 2004, a new era in American history began with the end of a passionate and at times raucous debate in the chambers of Chicago’s vaunted City Council. At issue were two zoning [...]

Wal-Mart Watch | London Coverage

Residents oppose Wal-Mart [London Free Press (Canada)]
They say you can’t halt progress, but a group of residents from the Meadowlily Road area are trying to make sure progress doesn’t take a heavy toll on the environment.
About 40 people, including London Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best, were on hand at Summerside Community Church last night to voice [...]

Breaking the chain: The antitrust case against Wal-Mart

By Barry C. Lynn
There is an undeniable beauty to laissez-faire theory, with its promise that by struggling against one another, by grasping and elbowing and shouting and shoving, we create efficiency and satisfaction and progress for all. This concept has shaped, at the most fundamental levels, how we understand and engineer our basic freedoms—economic, [...]