Can you please “unlike” Walmart? Walmart has a record of exploiting their workers

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4. If you follow the link you will see two examples of companies that are fair

towards their workers. Here is one:

Costco

The founder, Jim Senegal, son of a Pennsylvanian who was a coal miner and a steel worker and a good union man, Senegal had this vision that “I’m going to treat my workers well. I’m going to have very low prices. But I don’t want anyone thinking that I have low prices because our workers work under sweatshop conditions.” He decided, in setting up Costco, that Costco would have the best wages and benefits of any retailer, general retailer, in the nation. And generally, it does, yes. Someone working at Costco for, say, five years, their wages and benefit package together will be two, two-and-a-half times what the wage and benefit package is together at Wal-Mart. You know, the health plan is extremely good.

There’s this funny story about Costco, where each year they do a survey of their workers, saying, “What’s the best thing about working at Costco? What’s the worst thing about working at Costco?” And one poll found that employees said the worst thing about working at Costco is they weren’t allowed to wear shorts to work year round. So, imagine if that were the biggest complaint at every company in the United States.

From: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/29/the_big_squeeze_steven_greenhouse_on