date:Jun 08, 2013
or 22 hours per week. Some Wal-Mart workers use taxpayer-funded programs to support their families.
Members of the family of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton rank among the richest people in the world. They collectively own roughly 1.67 billion shares of Wal-Mart, or 50.76 percent of the company's outstanding stock.
OUR Walmart does not define itself as a union, although its members do pay $5 monthly dues.
Kalpona Akter, a former garment worker from Bangladesh who presented a defeated shareholder