You guys contradicting yourselves sometimes. You hate Walmart because you don't like its use of cheap labour and say Walmart exploit those poor souls by paying them horrible wages. On the other hand, Walmart offers tens of thousands of jobs to developing countries, including China, pulling tens of thousands out of poverty, not into it. These people may end up picking trash on the street if not for Walmart. So you guys refuse to shop there, are you supporting or depriving of human rights here??
Since 1978, when market-oriented economic reforms began, China has experienced the most rapid and sustained increase in human prosperity in world history. According to the World Bank, more than 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty during this period. The number of Chinese living in poverty has fallen from 65% of the population to around 10%. In both absolute numbers and percentage of population this is unprecedented, and dwarfs the combined effects of all other poverty reduction programs undertaken by anyone, anywhere in the world, over the past 30 years. Yet you guys choose to ignore the fact, and keep the China bashing, just because, I guess, workers are not paid $40,000 a year with 3 weeks of vacation as Canadians are?
Wal-Mart now employs over 80,000 people directly – but this number is inconsequential next to the number of people who work in factories that supply Wal-Mart products. The company has more than 20,000 Chinese suppliers, which employ several million people. Using standard employment and income multipliers, Wal-Mart can be credited with the creation of as many as 10 million Chinese jobs and contributing as much as $15 billion annually to China’s GDP. That’s enough to keep 32 million Chinese above the poverty line.
So on the one hand, you despise Walmart because you think it treats employees unfairly. On the other, you'd rather it bankrupt so that those factories workers will have no job and go back to the fields to plant corn for $500 a year?
I am not a fan of Walmart and shopped there for less than 5 times in my life. What bothers me is the logic implied in these irrational statement and action. So you think the right thing to do is for Walmart to hire those people, but pay Canadian wages and benefits so that "human rights" gets protected? How many days do you think Walmart can survive by doing that?