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Wal-Mart’s constant quest for the lowest price, has finally come, to well, bite them in their big proverbial corporate ass.
Video production company, Flagler Productions, who had been videotaping Wal-Mart meetings since the 1970s, got the Wal-Mart treatment and was fired recently, without notice. Since Flagler Productions business was about 95% dependent on Wal-Mart, the company gave back what Wal-Mart gave them. They sold off those over twenty years of video tapes to the highest bidder.
And, oh, what a treasure trove of materials, they have provided.
In addition to the multitudes of anti-union talk (no surprise here), we get to see the corporate male leaders of Wal-Mart do a drag show, ending with CEO Lee Scott, patting one of the men in drag on the bottom.
View the video below and judge for yourselves.
Obviously, Wal-Mart corporate execs were having a good time, with lots of laughter at the time.
Considering that Wal-Mart now faces the largest class action gender lawsuit in the history of the United States, their little drag show is just not that funny.
In June 2004, U.S. District Court Judge Martin Jenkins granted class-action status to 1.6 million current and former female Wal-Mart employees who charge the company with paying women less and offering them fewer opportunities for promotion.
In 2003, Dr. Richard Drogin, professor emeritus at California State University Hayward, conducted a study on wages for female employees at Wal-Mart and found that:
- female hourly workers earn up to 37 cents less per hour than their male counterparts;
- female full-time employees working at least 45 weeks earn on average nearly $5,000 less than male employees in yearly salary;
-women make up 72 percent of Wal-Mart's total workforce, but only 33 percent of its managers;
and women make up 92 percent of Wal-Mart's cashiers, but only 14 percent of Wal-Mart store managers.
Enjoy the video clip, and send it to your friends, family, co-workers, or anyone who may still shop at Wal-Mart.
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