Walmart backs down, lets Shank family keep $$!

[napi21]

After years of hounding Debbie Shank and her family, Wal-Mart says it will finally do the right thing.

Today, Wal-Mart agreed to allow the Shank family to keep the money they won from the trucking company responsible for Debbie's injuries.

Finally, the Shank family can put their fight with Wal-Mart behind them and focus on taking care of Debbie.

This was all possible thanks to the tremendous support from people like you.

Jim Shank released the following statement today thanking you and the rest of Debbie's supporters:

"I am grateful that Wal-Mart has seen their error and decided to rectify it. I just wish it hadn't taken them so long, this never should have happened. I sincerely hope no other family ever has to go through this.

"My thanks go first and foremost to my lord and savior Jesus Christ for the strength to bear up under all this. Thanks also to the citizens of the United States - it wasn't me who made this happen, it was the outcry of the people, and if there's a lesson in this story it's that 'we the people' still means something."

You showed Wal-Mart that we will not sit back while the retail giant takes advantage of a working family in need.

And Wal-Mart showed that it will never do the right thing unless we stand up, express our outrage, and force it to make the moral choice. That's why we need to continue to pressure Wal-Mart to do right by its 1.3 million American employees on issues like health care, discrimination, and working conditions.

For the Shank family, this is a bittersweet victory. Debbie's injuries will last a lifetime, and the emotional toll of this ordeal won't go away easily. But now they have one less obstacle to overcome -- and you helped make that happen.

On behalf of the Shank family and all of us at Wal-Mart Watch, thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

David Nassar
Wal-Mart Watch

I received this via email, but I'm sure the story is also at walmartwatch.com

WOW! I wonder who or what made them change their subborn minds???

[lisa58]

1. KEITH!!!!!!

[LaurenG]

9. We all know "Keith" is a tool

we can't possibly admire him for his honesty or good sense. :sarcasm:




Yay Keith! :bounce:

[Scooter24]

2. A few nights ago, there was a big story on

NBC Nightly News that really had Wal-Mart in a horrible position (as they should be). I'm pretty sure that might have had something to do with it.

[napi21]

4. Maybe it was all the bad publicity together. I didn't see the NBC

segment, but Keith, Abrams & Dobbs all were chastizing WM for being AH's!

Well congrats to all who forced their hand, and thank God for the Shank family that things finally worked out.

[provis99]

3. what an asshole corporation Wal-Mart is

they only did it because this particular case got national attention. Corporate scum. Geez, I am so pissed off today.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. It is about time !! K&R

greedy fuckers.

[myrna minx]

6. Oh, this makes me want to cry.

:-( The suffering these people were put through is just unconscionable.

[Hokie]

7. KO deserves credit too

Keith O. has made this issue front and center on Countdown.

[90-percent]

8. KO

Keith promised to run this on Worst Persons in the World segment until Wally World did the right thing.

You go, Keith!

Nice of Wal Mart to at least yield to the forces of incredibly bad PR.

Corporate decision making wise, this publicity meant the episode would be costing them a hell of a lot more than getting back the settlement.

Tells you something, doesn't it?

-90% Jimmy

[medeak]

10. Is this April Fools joke? n/t

[medeak]

11. ok...it's true...found link

http://www.semissourian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080401/NEWS01/706378923/-1/news01

what a turnaround in 24 hrs.

[Yael]

15. Thats what being featured DAILY in Countdown's Worst Person will do for ya

:woohoo:

[medeak]

17. headline on Keith right now!!!! n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

12. They'll try to pass themselves off as White Knights...

...for those who might not know, click this link, but remember it links to Wikiality.com and is a bit satirical.

Now, watch Wal-Mart continue their spin that they are a good corporate citizen.

They even changed their slogan from "Always Low Prices" to "Save Money, Live Better". They just didn't say who was saving and who was living better.

[ClayZ]

13. Yay Keith!

[Yael]

14. Keith Keith Keith

:applause:

I can't wait for Countdown tonight! :bounce:

[warren pease]

16. Nice outcome, but then...

... he's got to screw it all up by doing the JEEEEEEEEZZZUUUUUUUUZZS-UH suck up thing:

"My thanks go first and foremost to my lord and savior Jesus Christ for the strength to bear up under all this."

Oh, horseshit and more horseshit. You've either got the guts and brains and stamina and rage needed to keep after the bastards, or you don't. There isn't a gawd-damned thing -- as it were -- that some iconic guy who's usually pictured with an externally located heart (a significant and 100 percent fatal birth defect), holes in his palms and feet, and a little glowing UFO spinning just over his head is going to do about it.

It's not like he's going to sit down with the Walmart execs, prevail on their senses of honor and decency and negotiate a settlement. That's why gawd created lawyers, after all.

Ach... it's to be expected in a place that, alone among rich post-industrial countries, is chock full of religious fanatics. According to a 2003 University of Michigan study, the US "...remains one of the most religious nations in the world."

Right up there with those stone-age relic tribes that get "discovered" now and then by snooping anthropology grad students. The study says:

About 46 percent of American adults attend church at least once a week, not counting weddings, funerals and christenings, compared with 14 percent of adults in Great Britain, 8 percent in France, 7 percent in Sweden and 4 percent in Japan.

“While traditional religious belief and participation in organized religion have steadily declined in most advanced industrial nations, especially in Western Europe, this is not the case in the United States,” said Ronald F. Inglehart, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR), and director of the ISR World Values Surveys, which were conducted in more than 80 nations between 1981 and 2001.

Some possible reasons cited for the results: Religious refugees set the tone long ago in America; religious people tend to have more children than non-religious groups; and the U.S. has a less comprehensive social welfare system, prompting people to look to religion for help.

But... but... Jesus saves! We ain't got no proper health care system but, well, we got Walmart and Costco so fuck those elitist atheists and pagans. We'll take Elmer Gantry or the good Rev. Fred Phelps any day.

wp

[Pastiche423]

18. I am recommending your post .............A+

I was happy about the "change of heart", until I read he was thanking a fairytale for his good fortune.

[warren pease]

19. Thanks. You can't really recommend an individual post, can you? I've seen a bunch...

... lately that deserve it. If so, please tell me how.


wp

[Pastiche423]

20. No

But I believe your post most definitely deserves to be recommended.

[warren pease]

21. If you're interested in looking at a wide-ranging discussion on the pros and cons of religion...

Have a look at this archived thread.

Some really great posts, some widely divergent points of view and a lot of stuff I never heard of before.

All that and more than 400 posts, too.

And thanks again for the kind words re my previous post.


Best,

wp

[B Calm]

22. The Shank family needs to counter sue!