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Money can???t buy you love—and it doesn???t always buy political victory either. Ten months after Massachusetts voters defeated by a 62% margin a ballot question

Wal-Mart has set aside $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit affecting roughly 1,100 of its gay and lesbian employees charging that the retailer denied health

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled on February 12th that 7 Greenfield, MA neighbors who are fighting a 135,000 s.f. Wal-Mart have the right to

A new report prepared by the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy entitled “Employers Who Have 50 Or More Employees Using Public Health

Attention Home Depot shoppers: A group of 14 institutional investors in Home Depot has sponsored a shareholder’s resolution to be considered at the company’s 1998

With Wal-Mart getting ready to throw a big party for its 50th birthday this week, pension funds from across the county are defying the corporation’s

At this point, you can’t blame the Wal-Mart PR team in Bentonville, Arkansas from feeling a little bit like a bean that’s been baked —

Wal-Mart workers in Massachusetts are getting a ‘Christmas Bonus’ from their employer — but it’s actually money they rightly earned at work, but were never

Two years ago, Wal-Mart workers and their children cost the taxpayers of Massachusetts $7.2 million for subsidized health care. A new report released this past

The head of the embattled Bank of America told members of the Boston College Chief Executive Officers Club this week that his company is now

After a couple of years on the sidelines, a seven year old, multi-million lawsuit against Wal-Mart by its workers is now back on the clock.

Trying to beat taxes out of Wal-Mart is like banging on a Whac-A-Mole game. When you whack the mole down into its hole, another mole

A well-known asset management firm in Boston has written to Mayor Thomas Menino advising him not to let Wal-Mart into his city. Menino has been

Wal-Mart, the retailer with ‘everyday low prices,’ paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars last year to a small army of 9 lobbyists to

On January 8, 2005 Sprawl-Busters reported that a Superior Court Judge in Middlesex County, Massachusetts had ruled against Wal-Mart’s motion to dismiss a class action

Want to help fight citizens protecting their homes and neighborhoods? Want to help force huge superstores into tiny communities? Want to overwhelm your neighbors with

According to a new report released February 1st by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services, state taxpayers in the Commonwealth spent $7,223,580.77

Three women from Massachusetts won a “victory” against Wal-Mart this week by forcing the retailer to sell the “morning after pill.” But the unfortunate consequence

Wal-Mart likes to put out eco-friendly press releases, but here’s one you won’t find on their website. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached

Wal-Mart recently withdrew from consideration of an empty Filene’s store at a downtown crossing location in Boston, Massachusetts, with no reasons given. A few days

“Our people make the difference,” Wal-Mart boasts. But in Massachusetts, the “difference” could be tens of millions of dollars if employees win their class action

The Associated Press reported this week that the Walgreen’s drug store chain has agreed to pay $185,000 in Massachusetts to settle charges that it improperly

They did it in Michigan, now they’ve done it in Massachusetts. The company that likes to call itself ‘the most admired retailer’ has had to

On May 16, 2001, the Massachusetts General Court’s Committee on Commerce & Labor held hearings on legislation regarding “falling merchandise” at working warehouse stores. Here

Now that Home Depot has hammered the “competition’ in the New England/Mid Atlantic region, and stores like Somerville Lumber, Grossman’s, HomeQuarters, Channel, and Rickel’s are

Just as activists in urban St.Louis are fighting Kmart (see previous story), the giant retailer has run into similar grassroots resistance in the Jamaica Plain