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SEIU's Employer Partnerships/Wal-Mart's low wage supply chain

Shift Break with Tom Herriman

March 7, 2007

» Go to http://www.shiftbreak.com/podcasts/shiftbreak1_2007-03-07.mp3

SEIU's strategy of creating partnerships with employers is building up steam. What does it mean for the labor movement? At Wal-Mart, low prices mean low wages...all over the world. Workers from India and Colombia say their real employer lives in Bentonville, Arkansas.
(05:07 Minutes)

K.R. Jayaram and Betty Fuentes were interviewed by Tom Herriman about the impact that Wal-Mart has had the garment industry in Bangalore, India and cut flower plantations in Bogata, Colombia.

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