What do Wal-Mart's employees have to be thankful for this season? Perhaps not as much as they would like. The company's health care plan is still far short of the beneficial panacea the company would have us believe, and store employees are working harder than ever as the retailer continues to understaff stores. 1.6 million current and former Wal-Mart employees still await the outcome of the landmark class action Dukes v. Wal-Mart, and workers in Wal-Mart's supplier factories are working overtime in inhumane conditions to meet the company's holiday demands.
Wal-Mart executives can't be happy, either. The company's "green" report -- a thinly veiled marketing ploy - recieved a critical response from environmentalists and didn't win over critics as the company hoped it would. Wal-Mart's stock continues to decline, and shareholders are becoming increasingly impatient with the company's superficial attempts to solve its reputational issues.
So what can we be thankful for this year? We can still come together to try to change these things about Wal-Mart, and improve its behavior as the largest corporation in the world. Become one of the thousands of people working to make Wal-Mart a better corporate citizen.
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