Walmart’s Bolivian Greenwashing
Posted in capitalism, environment, worker rights on Jan 5th, 2011
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky has an excellent exposé in The Broward–Palm Beach New Times of Walmart’s Love, Earth jewelry line, which purports to be “affordable, quality products that have less impact on communities and the environment.” Friedman-Rudovsky finds, though, that Walmart’s Bolivian supplier, Aurafin, regularly pays less than minimum wage to its workers and fires employees who [...]
