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Target: Wal-Mart Lite
April 20th, 2006 - Shopping in a Target store, you know you’re not in Wal-Mart. But the differences may be mostly skin deep. Critics say that in terms of wages and benefits, working conditions, sweatshop-style foreign suppliers, and effects on local retail communities, big box Target stores are very much like Wal-Mart, just in a prettier package. Of more than 1,400 Target stores employing more than 300,000 people nationwide, not one has a union. Employees at various stores say an anti-union message and video is part of the new-employee orientation. At stores in the Twin Cities, where Target
Target CEO received $5M bonus last year
By Chris Noon, Forbes.com, May 12, 2005. Target revealed that Chief Executive Robert Ulrich received a $5 million bonus last year. Yesterday's regulatory filing showed Ulrich's bonus was significantly up against his $3.3 million haul in 2003. Add to this Ulrich's $1.6 million base salary, $368,000 in stock options and over $1.3 million in other compensation. And Ulrich's compensation seems to be in line with company fortunes: for the year ended Jan. 29, revenue rose 11% to $46.84 billion, with net income from continued operations rising 16% to $1.89 billion.
Gap, Penney's Settle Sweatshop Suit
Target Corp., Gap Inc. and five other U.S. retailers that buy clothing made on Saipan and 23 manufacturers on Thursday agreed to pay $11.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging factory sweatshop conditions.
Teflon Target
Article originally appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Entry-level hourly workers in Target stores earn roughly the same pay and have more difficulty qualifying for health care coverage than their peers at Wal-Mart. Both retailers oppose unions and have taken steps to prevent organizing efforts in stores. And both have outsourced jobs overseas to save costs. But while Wal-Mart is perceived as a corporate giant that will do just about anything to maximize sales and profits, Target -- thanks to its hip advertising campaigns and its longtime contributions to a variety of civic and cultural causes -- is seen as a model corporate citizen and benevolent employer.