Article: From Wal-Mart, a call for help

Michael Barbaro
International Herald Tribune
05-13-2006
Wal-Mart Stores, having helped start an advocacy group that trumpets its contributions to America, is now helping that organization recruit Wal-Mart's suppliers to join the public relations offensive a move that some vendors say puts improper pressure on them.The campaign to encourage suppliers to join the advocacy group, called Working Families for Wal-Mart, challenges Wal-Mart's longstanding policy of keeping suppliers at arm's length and shows how eager the company is to fend off a well-organized, union-backed campaign critical of its wages and benefits. Although Wal-Mart provides the advocacy group with significant financial ...

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