International Labor Rights Fund Loses Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart

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International Labor Rights Fund Loses Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart

A labor rights organization has lost a lawsuit seeking to tie Wal-Mart to labor violations committed by over seas suppliers. Jesse Russell has more:

Wal-Mart can not be held responsible for the actions of overseas suppliers. That was the ruling by a federal courts judge on a complaint filed last year by the International Labor Rights Fund alleging that thousands of workers for Wal-Mart suppliers were forced to work overtime and in many cases were fired for seeking to form a union. The organization said it was Wal-Mart's failure to enforce labor contracts with those suppliers that required them to abide by local labor standards. The judge in the case said that the local wage and violations should be handled by the countries the suppliers are located in and that Wal-Mart should not be made a part of it.

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