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Mexican teenagers work
without wages: Wal-Mart caught once again for misusing young workers Wal-Mart is doing well in Mexico, at least if one is to believe the company itself. But once again, reality is catching up with the US retail giant. According to Newsweek magazine, the Bentonville-based multinational employs thousands of young people to pack its customers' bags. But the 4,300 young teenagers don't receive any pay from Wal-Mart. So, Wal-Mart succeeds to defend its position as the undisputed leader of the pack when it comes to violating fundamental workers' rights. To make use of the enormous social problems in Mexico by taking on impoverished children to do the work, but making them rely only on tips from customers, is immoral. This behaviour should send yet another signal that Wal-Mart and walmartization must be stopped. For those who may have thought that Wal-Mart's social dumping and denying its workers a decent income and social benefits is a US problem, this exploitation of Mexican youngsters should be an eye-opener. Walmartization is a disease that spreads easily, as also Europeans have seen in the cases of Lidl, Schlecker and other employers. And in Korea today, we see a really grotesque example in the bitter fight that E.Land's workers have to engage themselves in to protect their jobs. |
