Walton, deemed a “billionaire bully” by Brave New Films, has an estimated net worth around $21 billion, JWJ reports. As a family, the Waltons control 49 percent of Wal-Mart and are, says JWJ, the richest family in the United States, with a combined net worth is $93 billion. The Walton family has as much wealth as the bottom 30 percent of American families combined. That’s more than 35 million families.
The family’s dividends from their Wal-Mart stock alone are more than $2 billion a year. Just using their dividends, they could ensure that a million Wal-Mart employees make at least $12 an hour instead of the current average of $8.81 an hour.
Just last month Wal-Mart, under Rob’s leadership, slashed health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart employees and their families — right before the holidays. What a scrooge!
Runner-ups for the award were:
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
ALEC was nominated because of the voter suppression laws that have been a direct attack on students, youth, seniors and historically disenfranchised communities. These state laws have been some of the most repressive voting laws since the Jim Crow era in the south. ALEC also authored scores of anti-labor bills, including the legislation Governor Scott Walker instituted in Wisconsin.
Publix supermarkets
Publix is the largest corporation in Florida and the eighth-largest private corporation in the United States, with $5.5 billion dollars in profits in the past three years alone. For several years, Publix has refused to join a growing list of corporations — nine to date, including McDonald’s, Subway, and Whole Foods — who have committed to work with the farmworker-led Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve wages and working conditions for the farmworkers who pick their companies’ tomatoes.
Eddie Hull, UMass Director of Housing and Residential Life
Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst received an early Christmas gift from their esteemed Director of Housing and Residential Life … the loss of their jobs. In a move even the Scrooge would find wicked, Hull sent an email to 73 undergraduate employees informing them they would be unemployed at the end of the school year, just two weeks before the end of the semester.
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Walton, deemed a “billionaire bully” by Brave New Films, has an estimated net worth around $21 billion, JWJ reports. As a family, the Waltons control 49 percent of Wal-Mart and are, says JWJ, the richest family in the United States, with a combined net worth is $93 billion. The Walton family has as much wealth as the bottom 30 percent of American families combined. That’s more than 35 million families.
The family’s dividends from their Wal-Mart stock alone are more than $2 billion a year. Just using their dividends, they could ensure that a million Wal-Mart employees make at least $12 an hour instead of the current average of $8.81 an hour.
Just last month Wal-Mart, under Rob’s leadership, slashed health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart employees and their families — right before the holidays. What a scrooge!
Runner-ups for the award were:
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
ALEC was nominated because of the voter suppression laws that have been a direct attack on students, youth, seniors and historically disenfranchised communities. These state laws have been some of the most repressive voting laws since the Jim Crow era in the south. ALEC also authored scores of anti-labor bills, including the legislation Governor Scott Walker instituted in Wisconsin.
Publix supermarkets
Publix is the largest corporation in Florida and the eighth-largest private corporation in the United States, with $5.5 billion dollars in profits in the past three years alone. For several years, Publix has refused to join a growing list of corporations — nine to date, including McDonald’s, Subway, and Whole Foods — who have committed to work with the farmworker-led Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve wages and working conditions for the farmworkers who pick their companies’ tomatoes.
Eddie Hull, UMass Director of Housing and Residential Life
Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst received an early Christmas gift from their esteemed Director of Housing and Residential Life … the loss of their jobs. In a move even the Scrooge would find wicked, Hull sent an email to 73 undergraduate employees informing them they would be unemployed at the end of the school year, just two weeks before the end of the semester.