The Wal-Mart Crusade.

• Author: Corn, Josh
• Position: Letter to the editor

Julian Sanchez failed to mention an important part of Richard Greenwald's documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price the segment on Wal-Mart's use of sweatshop labor in China ("The Wal-Mart Crusade," March). Despite Wal-Mart's $7 billion in annual profits, it continues to depress wages and working conditions in its factories in China. The pay rate for production work in its Chinese factories is 13 cents per hour (below China's 31-cent minimum wage), and the mandatory 13-to-16-hour workdays are enforced under horrific and extremely dangerous conditions. There is no health and safety enforcement, no medical treatment, and immediate dismissal if a worker cannot work...