Publications

Wal-Mart's Pay Gap

Publication Date: 

April 15, 2005

Wal-Mart company documents released April 15 reveal that CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr., made $17,543,739 in total compensation last year – nearly twice the average of $9.6 million for leading U.S. CEOs as a whole, according to Business Week. Thomas Coughlin, the Vice Chair of the board who recently was accused by Wal-Mart officials of spending company money on personal items such as alligator skin cowboy boots, has had some of his compensation suspended, but not his $1 million-plus salary.

Wal-Mart's Political Profits

Publication Date: 

January 1, 2005

Corporate Accountability International created STANDARDS OF POLITICAL CONDUCT FOR CORPORATIONS as our vision and goals for how corporations should function in the political arena. These standards lead us toward a safer, healthier, more democratic world. We see how Wal-Mart stacks up

against several key standards.

Written Testimony Regarding the Central American Free Trade Agreement

Publication Date: 

January 1, 2005

The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) is deeply concerned about ongoing labor rights violations in Central America. The current, neo-liberal economic model forces developing countries to compete against one another to attract new investment by offering low wages and foregoing enforcement of labor and environmental laws. Indeed, such competition is the greatest barrier to the enforcement of labor laws, as countries legitimately fear that multinationals will move to the country offering the greatest freedom to operate with impunity from national law.

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