Christian Baca
Boycott Wal-mart
Introduction
I. I will start off with wal-marts slogan. II. To persuade. III. After listening to my speech my audience will be more likely to shop elsewhere IV. We need to stop supporting unfair companies like wal-mart. V. Each person in the class needs to consider shopping at other stores. VI. Today I will talk to you about several negative aspects tied to Wal-Mart such as low wages, tough working conditions, female discrimination and the undermining of labor laws, how people can come together and push for a better corporation, and what you can do today to start.
Body
I. Wal-mart is the largest retailer and private employer in the United States but still pays low wages and discriminates against women. A. With record sales of 300 billion a year the company hasn’t risen its wages sticking to minimum wage and also making it hard for women to climb up the ladder to leadership positions.(Lichtenstein,2006) 1. Wal-mart underpays and under staffs sometimes even forcing employees to work through their breaks and lunches.(Featherstone,2004) B. You may think wal-mart moving in to your town means lower prices for you but it doesn’t come for free. 1. If a Wal-Mart store opens in a community it creates competition meaning every other store around that wal-mart needs to find ways to compete whether it means lowering wages or laying off employees it could be you next. 2. Wal-mart has 6,000 suppliers, 80% are in china meaning less jobs for America. (frontline,2004) 3. “Wal-mart puts people out of work and lowers the standard of living”(frontline,2004)
Transition: Now that we know what wal-mart does to America lets look at what can be done to solve this problem. II. The problem of low wages can be solved by forming unions and boycotting for