Walmart: Bribery and Cover Up Scandal

Posted on April 23, 2012 by jway

Below is a clip from MSNBC discussing the Walmart bribery and cover up scandal. Read the detailed New York Times piece that broke the story here.

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  • Anonymous

    it is time for Walmart Change into Unionize Walmart Store right of away and right now please for all Walmart Department Workers and for all Sam’s Club Department Workers by make Walmart give all Walmart a Living Wage With Affordable Healthcare right of away and right now please without close down all the Walmart Store and without close down all the Sam’s Wholesale Club.

    Thank You Very Much United Food And Commercial Workers Union And Teamster Union And Making Change At Walmart And OUR Walmart And Employee Free Choice Act For Trying Make Walmart A Better Place To Work For All Walmart Workers And For All Sam’s Club Workers From Tom P Noonan

  • Anonymous

    it is time for Walmart Change into United Food and Commercial Workers Unionize Walmart Store for all Walmart Cashier Workers and for all Walmart Produce Workers and for all Walmart Deli Department Workers and for Walmart Bakery Department Workers. it is time for Walmart Change into Teamster Unionize Walmart Store for all Walmart Truck Drivers Workers and for all Walmart Hardware Department Workers and for all Walmart Gardening Department Workers and for all Walmart Maintenance Association Workers and for all Stock Person Workers and for all Walmart Customer Service Desk Workers and for all Walmart Courtesy Association Workers and for all Sam’s Club Truck Drivers Workers and for all Sam’s Club Forklift Drivers@Stock Person Workers and for all Sam’s Club Maintenance Workers and for all Sam’s Club Cashier Workers and for all Sam’s Club Meat Cutter@Meat Wrapper and for all Sam’s Club Produce Workers and for all Walmart  Cafe Workers and for all Sam’s Club Bakery Department Workers and for all Sam’s Club Membership Desk Workers and for all Sam’s Club Cart Attendant Workers. it is time for Walmart Change into Communication Workers of America Unionize Walmart Store for all Walmart Electronics Workers and for all Sam’s Club Electronics Workers. it is time for Walmart Change into United Healthcare Workers Unionize Walmart Store for all Walmart Pharmacy Workers and for all Sam’s Club Pharmacy Workers. it is time for Walmart Change into United Auto Workers Unionize Walmart Store for all Walmart Tire@Lube Express Workers and for all Sam’s Club Tire@Vehicle Battery Installment Workers right of away and right now please by make Walmart give all Walmart Workers and all Sam’s Club Workers a Living Wage With Affordable Healthcare right of away and right now please without close down all the Walmart Store and without close down all the Sam’s Wholesale Club

    Thank You Very Much United Food And Commercial Workers Union And Teamster Union And Making Change At Walmart And OUR Walmart And Walmart Watch And Employee Free Choice Act For Trying Make Walmart A Better Place To Work For All Walmart Workers And For All Sam’s Club Workers From Tom P Noonan

  • GIJoe

    No wonder they could not pay my workmans comp after my head injury,heart attack and back injury. After all they had to pay 24 million in bribs and 81.1 million to the chief exective.

  • Anonymous
    • Anonymous

      All companies and unions wanting to do business in some of these foreign companies participate in these schemes. It is the culture of these foreign countries and has been going on for centuries. This false indignation about it is very funny. Why would anybody ever trust anything from the Huffingtom Post anyway?

      • Anonymous

        Keep laughing old man!

      • Anonymous

         You must have missed the other post on your union corruption:

         Just a few examples of union corruption: People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

        lan L. Axt, ex-vice president of member services for the United Food
        & Commercial Workers Local 1288 Federal Credit Union, pled guilty
        Sept. 4 to embezzling $277,335 from the financial institution based in
        Fresno, Cal. Axt admitted before U.S. Dist. Judge Oliver W. Wanger (E.D.
        Cal.,

        Nebraska union (UFCW) decertified when employees found out what they
        were making and that union bosses had been convicted of embezzlement or
        corruption. [Omaha World-Herald 8/16/01]

        Ex-president of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1262 in
        New Jersey, Joseph P. Rizzo, Jr., was arrested by federal agents Nov. 29
        and charged with soliciting bribes from supermarkets seeking to prevent
        labor disruptions during the holidays. Reportedly, Rizzo solicited
        payments from unnamed employees for Foodtown and ShopRite supermarkets
        over nearly 20 years. In exchange, he allegedly vowed to ensure labor
        peace and offered one chain favorable treatment when the union was on
        strike. Rizzo was charged with four counts of conspiracy related to
        bribery, in a sealed grand jury indictment handed up Nov. 15.

      • Anonymous

        A Wall Street CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier are sitting at a table with 12 cookies.  The CEO grabs 11, turns to the tea Partier and says: “You better watch him… That union guy is out to take your cookie”. 

      • Anonymous

         In America, we should be taught to earn our own cookies. Your union mentality of retiring at 50 and having the taxpayers work until they are 70 to pay for it, has ruined the American work ethic and made the uniformed think your joke is funny. Thank goodness the union mentality is dying out in America and help is on the way after the elections. Wall street is not nearly as corrupt as your union.

      • Anonymous

        Maybe you think these are funnier!

        http://youtu.be/M3QvDdXFz3Q

        http://youtu.be/7KFdRxASP6A

      • Anonymous

         It must suck to be consumed by hatred. I am almost starting to feel sorry for you. I would except that you are trying to spread it.

      • yellowof14

        i’d like to understand more about what this is all about, i do not always trust media nor do i like unions.  but all i know is i am seeing change in my own walmart and its not all good.  we are getting pushed to do more faster with less people.  i see the stress in management on trying to comply with “home office” as they put it, rules.  i’m sure most walmarts do this but we cheat and make it look as if we are doing exactly what they want but we cant.  i’m not sure i can work for them much longer.  i’m stressed, but i love most of our people including all managers.  our walmart hires, or at least they used to hire some with minimal handicaps, some just cant get the work done within the score card time limit.  it is rumored they may be fired if they dont get things stocked in the time limit.  some walmarts are already doing this.  

      • Anonymous

         The nice thing about America is that if you don’t like your job, you can quit and get another one. Small business is always looking for great employees and it is easier for your skills to be recognized and rewarded. You can always start your own business like I did. There is nothing like being your own boss. This is the American dream and nothing is more rewarding. Unions are designed to bring everybody down to the lowest denominator. Opportunity will be ripe when the economy takes off after the election. There is huge pent up demand.

      • Darell_johnson

        You are limited in your perception and you brag about your opportunity to start your on business as though everyone can just simply quit there job and start a viable business. Certainly all unions are not good nor needed for all businesses; however to completly ignore legitimate complaints of unfair and corrupt business practices of a company is terrrible. To denounce the concept of employees organizing legitimate unions or organizations to seek their rights from a position of collective effort is un American. When corruption and injustices are taking a toll on people the the right to  peaceful assemble in lawful ways to fight against people causing the corruption and injustices are vital for the sustainment of the human being and all that follows.   

      • Anonymous

         It is not necessary to  quit your job to start your own business. What is required is for people to stop their whining and get to work on improving their own job skills and their value to any company. There are a huge number of free or cheap ways to do this and complaining about your “rights” won’t get you too far. You should concentrate on your opportunities and fulfill them to the best of your abilities. Sitting around and sucking up the hucksterism that if you pay somebody some dues, you live will be better and you don’t have to do anything else. This is being taken in. Do you think America became the greatest country in the world by doing this. The individual is responsible for their success. Their family depends on them. Everybody can improve themselves. Everybody. Paying some dues to a corrupt union won’t work and hasn’t for decades. Go be responsible for yourself . There are no shortcuts for hard work.

      • pattysboi

        Stop and listen for a minute. UNIONS got YOU clean and safe working conditions, paid sick leave and vacations, breaks and lunch breaks, and the abolition of child labor in mines and factories. When are YOU going to touting the anti-union garbage?

      • Anonymous

         Unions got me nothing. I got what I have by working hard and working smart. Both are required. What I tout is pro American. Unions are only 6% of the US non governmental workers. They are not a factor. They are an after thought.They do nothing for most of the workers. What they did a half century ago doesn’t pertain to me or almost all workers, I pay what somebody is worth and Child labor is illegal and has been for generations. You have been indoctrinated in all of this garbage. Get real. You are responsible for yourself, not your employers. This is America, not Russia.

  • Michael59

    Sam Walton would never have let this happen…..

    • Anonymous

       If Sam Walton wanted to do business in Mexico, he would have done what was required just like the other American companies do. This false outrage is very funny. Bribery is a way of life in many parts of the world and is standard practice in unions. This union has officials in the slammer right now for the same thing. Wake up, you are being lied to.