Fighting Wal-Martization

A new video by The Labor Video Project, 25 min. (2005)

Wal-Mart is now the largest private employer in the United States and has the same impact that General Motors had nearly 50 years ago. This 26-minute video shows why working people and trade unionists are fighting back and what Wal-Mart has in store for the communities it is seeking to build stores in.

Fighting Wal-Martization is a hard hitting documentary that looks at how the constant price cutting not only drives local small businesses out of the community but how this ends up driving down the living conditions of the very people who shop at Wal-Mart.

The video also looks at the healthcare crisis and how Wal-Mart increases its profits by sending its employees to public hospitals to get treatment — thereby shifting costs back onto the taxpayer. It highlights the role of organized workers in fighting for justice on the job and shows how some unions are seeking to organize immigrant and Spanish speaking workers who are building Wal-Marts.

This video can be used at union meetings, community meetings and on cable TV to get the message out about the Wal-Martization of America and what it means to every working person.

Please mail your check of $20.00 and order form to Labor Video Project P. O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172. For more info: lvpsf@labornet.org or (415) 282-1908.