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I don't consider that a "great victory" since green
paint probably costs the same as blue paint.
What I do consider important is the fact that this
"big super corporation" listened, and did make changes.
Perhaps we were tossed a few crumbs to keep us
quiet, but that is better than being kicked away from the table.
Concerning foreign workers, let's examine trade
agreements.
In the meantime, each person can refuse to buy
anything unless it has a "made in America" label.
Oops, that may upset the foreign trade
applecart.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:18
PM
Subject: [Winona] Wal-Mart
concessions?
Yesterday's Winona
Daily News proclaimed the wonderful news that Wal-Mart has agreed to paint
their store green rather than blue for Winona. (Nothing was mentioned about
what color of smock the Wal-Mart "greeter" will wear.)
Wow! What a great
victory for the Winona Planning Commission, to get a big super corporation to
change such an important thing as the color of their store is amazing!
Now
if we can only persuade Wal-Mart to do business in a moral, ethical matter. To
treat their employers as human beings rather than as so much inventory. And to
pay the workers in foreign "sweatshops" more than a few dollars a day THAT
would be worth of a front page story!
Dean Lanz
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