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The task is to learn about how big multinational companies treat the poorest workers not as human beings but as their slaves.
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The foundation for Wal-Mart was laid in 1950 by Sam Walton. The first shop was<br /> opened in Arkansas in United States under the name of “Walton’s 5 & 10”. The<br /> location of the first shop has been transformed into the headquarters of Wal-Mart<br /> who has become the biggest retailer company in the world. Sam Walton understood<br /> from the start that providing his customers with cheap products instead of high<br /> mark-ups on each sales item would make the company more competitive. The<br /> company would secure profits by selling the same cheap goods in big quantities in<br /> all its shops. Sam Walton consciously tried to keep pay-rolls down. He preferred to<br /> hire as few people as possible and only pay them what he had to. Though wages in<br /> Wal-Mart’s shops in United States were kept low and worker’s attempts to organize<br /> in trade unions were crushed they have succeeded in promoting themselves as a<br /> responsible employer in United States. The company provides health care insurance<br /> for the employees and it gives them the right to put a certain percentage of their<br /> wage aside to buy subsidized Wal-Mart stocks. For Wal-Mart employees who stay<br /> in the company until their retirement this can amount to quite some money. But as<br /> the job is very low paid many employees have not managed to make this<br /> investment. The company today has 1.4 million employees in United States and<br /> 700,000 employees in other countries.<br /> <br /> Because of the company’s size it can bargain the prices of the goods from its<br /> suppliers around the world. Most of Wal-Mart suppliers come from countries where<br /> wages are kept down to a level where workers barely survive and work under<br /> horrible work conditions sometimes even slave like.<br /> <br /> Wal-Mart claims to make inspections to secure that the products sold in Wal-Mart<br /> are produced in a human and environmentally responsible way but examples of the<br /> opposite has been proven again and again. The prize of the explosive consumerism<br /> is paid by the poor in third world countries around the world.
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1. Read the text.<br /> <br /> 2. Find five interesting facts in the article and write them down.<br /> <br /> 3. Explain the facts to a fellow student or another interested person and discuss<br /> what this can teach us about the behavior of multinational companies and the<br /> consequences for workers.<br /> <br /> 4. Send your five facts and conclusion on the discussion to your tutor.
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