14 Women's Groups Send Wal-Mart Mother's Day Challenge

[Omaha Steve]

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14 Women's Groups Send Wal-Mart Mother's Day Challenge

14 Leading Women's Groups Representing Over 10 Million Women Call on
Wal-Mart to Address Its Mistreatment of Wal-Mart Women by Mother's Day
National Council of Women's Organizations, National Organization of Women
(NOW), National Congress of Black Women, CODEPINK, & 10 Other Groups Call
on Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott to 'Lead by Example' and Help Improve Lives of
Its Women Workers
WakeUpWalMart.com to Also Launch 'Million Moms Call & Cards' Campaign
Initiative in 19 States

WASHINGTON, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, in honor of
Mother's Day, many of the nation's most influential women's groups,
including the National Council of Women's Organizations, the National
Organization of Women (NOW), CODEPINK, National Congress of Black Women,
National Committee on Pay Equity, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW),
National Women's Conference, Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, International Women's Democracy Center, Coalition of Labor Union
Women, Black Women United for Action, National Women's Political Caucus,
Veteran Feminists of America, and the Dolores Huerta Foundation signed a
joint letter that calls on Wal-Mart to address its record of mistreating
women workers and help "make this Mother's Day the best ever for Wal-Mart's
Associates and mothers all across our country."

The joint letter, which is part of WakeUpWalMart.com's 2007 Mother's
Day Campaign, entitled "Moms Deserve Better Than Wal-Mart," challenges
Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott to address the company's record of discrimination,
poverty-level wages, unaffordable health care, and anti-family policies
that negatively impact its women workers, many of them moms.

Today's joint Mother's Day initiative between WakeUpWalMart.com and the
14 women's groups, representing well over 10 million women, is not only the
largest number of women's groups to ever speak out against Wal-Mart's
record of exploiting its women workers, but is also the most significant
Mother's Day campaign launched by WakeUpWalMart.com since the group's
inception in April 2005.

The letter from the 14 women's groups to Wal-Mart's CEO makes it very
clear why Wal-Mart's record is an issue of great concern as we head into
Mother's Day. As the letter states, "To some rich and powerful
corporations, these mothers are invisible, representing mere numbers on a
balance sheet whose hours, wages, and benefits can be cut without thought
or consideration of their endless and tireless work to support not only
themselves, but their entire families. It seems that Wal-Mart, more than
any other company, sees these women workers as invisible."

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[HockeyMom]

1. They would be better off at McDonald's

than WalMart, or their local supermarket.