ASDA Wal-Mart: Links, contacts & resources

This article is part of the Foodspin project of Spinwatch.

Further Information and Resources

Anti-Wal-Mart websites with the opinions of some employees and some good links:

• www.sprawl-busters.com
• www.walmartwatch.com
• http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4933/walmart.html
• http://www.bit-net.com/~dka/Resources/Best%20Links.html;http://www.bit-net.com/~dka/Resources/links2.html
• http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/campaigns/wal-mart.index.htm

Sites for current and former employees trying to assert their rights

• www.walmartversuswomen.com
• www.walmartclass.com
• http://www.walmartswaronworkers.com/index.php a campaign site
• www.walmartsucks.org
• http://www.members.aol.com/walmopboy/abuse/

Related campaigns

• www.nosweat.org.uk anti-sweatshop campaigns
• http://www.bananalink.org.uk/ loads of info about the banana trade
• http://www.ossoryroad.ownsthis.com/website/campaign/ quite an inspiring local campaign against a new London Asda store.
• Corporate Watch, 'What's Wrong With Supermarkets?' See also Corporate Watch news archives and other profiles especially Tesco.
• www.farmersforaction.org
• Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming http://www.sustainweb.org
• National Association of Farmers' Markets www.farmersmarkets.net
• Federation of Small Businesshttp://www.fsb.org.uk

Retail sector analysis

• http://www.kamcity.com/Library/retail.htmhttp://www.kamcity.com/walmasda
• http://grocertoday.co.uk
• http://just-food.com

Unions

• United Food and Commercial Workers' Union (US)http://www.ufcw.org
• http://www.union-network.org A global network of unions
• The National Labor Committee (US) http://www.nlcnet.org

Others

• http://www.opensecrets.org/" The web page which shows USA lobbying groups’ and businesses' activities in Federal Government.
• How Wal-Mart is destroying America, Bill Quinn, 1998, Berkeley, California. A book documenting Wal-Mart’s 90’s activities in the USA
• No Logo, Naomi Klein
• Not on the Label, Felicity Lawrence 2004
• Shopped:The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets, Joanna Blythman 2004

News articles

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1179164,00.html This article doesn't mention Asda specifically, but is useful to read and offers a good insight into the employment culture supermarkets encourage. Most of these workers aren't employed directly by the supermarkets, but hired out to factories for packaging or processing by agencies, thus conveniently taking the responsibility for their welfare away from supermarkets.