Walmart - Corporate welfare queen • walmart - The high cost of low price • part 5 • brave new films

Watch the full film FREE: ****** The largest employer in the United States is also the most aggressively anti-union corporation in our nation's history. How do they quell their workers' attempts to organize around obtaining fair terms of employment? Watch to find out. BRAVE NEW FILMS BOXED SET: ****** The subsidies Walmart gets from city governments takes funding away from public schools. When Walmart opened stored in Denver, they got $1.7 million in city subsidies, if the money had gone to the Denver Public Schools system, they wouldn't had have to shut down three schools. Subsidies also give Walmart an unfair business advantage over small, locally owned stores that offer better pay and benefits for their workers. Enough is enough. All working people deserve fair wages and benefits. Workers in more than 2,000 stores have come together to call for Walmart to increase wages to a minimum of $13 an hour and access to full-time hours. OUR Walmart is coordinating these protests and is attempting to strike a blow to the most exploitative corporation in America on the biggest retail day of the year. Stand with the Walmart strikers this Black Friday at a protest near you: ****** Quick facts about Walmart: •The Walton family, who owns Walmart, is the richest family in America -with nearly $150 billion in wealth. •They have as much money as 43% of America’s poorest families combined. •Most of Walmart's 1.3 million employees make less than $25,000 per year. •Most Walmart jobs are part-time. •Many Walmart workers are forced to utilize state subsidized benefits in lieu of receiving sufficient benefits from their employer. Very interesting that The Waltons have funded numerous political campaigns which attack welfare, while they benefit hugely from the system... •Walmart no longer offers health benefits to employees who work less than 24 hours per week. •Walmart requires workers to attend anti-union meetings and specially trains supervisors in union avoidance. •"In 2005, a memo from Walmart’s then Vice President of Benefits Susan Chambers outlined a strategy for how the company could remove sick workers from the payrolls and avoid paying healthcare benefits." - MakingChangeatWalmart.org You can fight back. Join us: ****** ABOUT BRAVE NEW FILMS Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are at the forefront of the fight to create a just America. Using new media and internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike capability that informs the public, challenges corporate media with the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues nationwide. Brave New Films’ investigative films have scrutinized the impact of U.S. drone strikes; the war on whistleblowers; and Wal Mart’s corporate practices. The company’s films have received more than 56 million views online. NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK! WATCH our Feature Films - FREE! Set up a free screening in your community: ****** Like us on Facebook: ****** Inequality: ****** Security: ****** Justice: ****** Follow us on Instagram: ******

I love my job. It's challenging, But it's really satisfying. We truly are living the American Dream. It's out there, and it's at Walmart.. Great citizenship also means that we're going to support the communities that we're in to support our charities and the organizations that exist there. You know, by the time I was born out in Hoover, I have lived under about 36% of the presidents of the United States. Hoover and Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Sr. Bush, and Jr. Bush. So that's 13 presidents out of 43 I've lived. We came here in 1959. And started an IGA store which is independent grocers. They had approx. 150 employees and of these 150 the fulltime employees were a great number of them, they had full coverage insurance, health insurance. We also had 401k pension plans that they really appreciate it. You know, in small-town businesses, you do become attached to your employees and they're very important to you. We always had a Christmas Party or dinner where all the employees came and we'd close the stores. And every day after school I'd get off the bus and run up to the store because we lived a couple blocks from it. This was left over from when we closed down the stores in the late 90's. I don't believe it's fair the way that Walmart has come in with the funding that they get to put their sewers, roads, parking signals, grass etc in compared to what the independent retailer gets, no I don't believe it's fair. Certainly it isn't fair, and I think he at one time did go talk to them in Cameron and say, if we're going to run a business here can you help us? no they couldn't do that/ I don't think it's fair to help them to build roads for their business and at the same time the store open puts others out of business. The competition we're up against hasn't caused a problem as much as the competition being helped by our government. From one level to the other they get all the breaks. Walmart is coming in and is pushing us out. We know you give them tax abatements, will you give us tax abatements? And no they couldn't do that, so the county nor the city would do that. And everyone knew it was unfair, but we couldn't do anything. I'm sure water, any of that stuff, as far as I know we didn't receive a dime from the city, county or any place like that. If you tell them that you don't want them in your city limits there's nothing to stop them from buying five acres outside the city limits, hooking up to rural water and having all the negative effects on the city and none of the positive effects. In Cameron, it took 40% of our business and about 1/3 of our business here in Hamilton. In Brookfield it took over 50% of our business overnight. It's hard to make those payments with a wholesaler having problems themselves, so everything culminating in everyone having problem's. To pay employees you use the cash from the inventory and then you didn't have any inventory. In the process of all this I had to borrow money to put into stores and with the farm as collateral. It went down from there. So we had no recourse but to just close em up. It was 40 years of hard work that seemed to disappear all at once. It wasn't very easy thing to adjust to. And now you can see Erwin still saddened a lot. It wasn't what he planned. But we had a lot of good times, he did a lot of things, he knows a lot of people, they respect him, and so I don't know what else you're going to get out of life. On the closing of that store, it was a Sunday morning, and just.... I remember coming down stairs and sat down on the couch and mom told me and I started crying. It's like a family member, we were there every day and it was very a part of my life It was probably my favorite place. They wanted it from me. And I love him to death for it, but they wanted it for me and my family. And if Walmart gains ground and has a monopoly, where will our families and where will our children be and what will they have to do to work, and to be competitive, in ten years or so, it could be very, very serious for the nation. It might happen that way and I hope it doesn't for our children's sake, but it could be real serious, be a revolution, I won't say it'd be a civil war but it'd be a revolution and I don't think anybody wants that. I'm Kim Marcetta and I'm a 4th and 5th grade bilingual teacher in Denver CO at Newman Elementary School, and Walmart received subsidies of about 1.7 million dollars and with that our Denver metropolitan area, that could've kept the three schools we closed this year open. I'm Monica Jefferson, I'm a speech/language pathologist and I work for special school district of St. Louis county. Walmart receives over 31 million dollars in subsidy from the Mo. government. Cathedral City made a 1.8 million dollar investment but because of Wal-Mart's lies and not stepping up to the plate with their commitments, we're short on policemen, we're short on fireman, we've eliminate the recreation commission of the city, we're not able to provide the services to our services to the residents that they need and deserve and we're going to have lives hanging in the balance because we're not going to be able to provide these services. My name is Charles Haas I've been a 4th grade teacher in Washington state for many years and when I think of the million dollars that Walmart received for its distribution center, and what we could be don't there for students it's outrageous. Taking revenue away from our community that will have a direct impact on our ability to continue to provide some level of service. In Illinois, Walmart has received 100 million dollars in subsidies and that has affected our school systems that money could go into our school systems to rehire all of the support teachers we need back, the support personnel, we could have our psychologist back out social workers back, our counselors back, we could pick up and these programs are being cut because Walmart has received subsidized. What we're experiencing currently is that Walmart has for business purposes have decide that they are going to leave our community. They're moving 2 miles away. Not very far away, in fact one is being built on the property line of our city which we still will not receive any benefit from. Just outside the city limits. Just as we were about to start to receive a better part of the sales tax revenue, from the deal, we found out that we'd been the chumps. To end it with a vacant building of the size that most businesses cannot fill. So you have a huge building that sits vacant for months and years.