(Cross-posted at Minnesota Campaign Report)
This week the Star-Tribune reports on a Minnesota legal ruling with absolutely stunning implications:
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. broke Minnesota labor law more than 2 million times over six years, routinely forcing some employees to work off the clock through lunch and rest breaks, a Dakota County judge has ruled.
No need to adjust your set-- Judge Robert King actually found that Wal-Mart committed over two million violations of state labor law.
Some of the words he used to describe Wal-Mart's treatment of lead plaintiff Nancy Braun: "willful", "dehumanizing" and "reprehensible".
I can't bring myself to type the details of what they put the poor woman through-- go ahead and click through to the news article if you're morbidly curious.
The point is this: the Bentonville Behemoth was found, in a court of law, not to have been merely dismissive of an employee's needs, but to have routinely, as a matter of policy, humiliated vulnerable employees. And they're not even sorry; they're appealing the decision.
This company is sick and wrong. We have to Wake Up Wal-Mart.