Hillary Clinton was a Wal-Mart Director for 6 Years

[FreakinDJ]

In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was under pressure to appoint a woman to the company’s 15-member -all male- board of directors. So, Mr. Walton asked a young lawyer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas at the time, where Wal-Mart is based, to be the sole female member of the board.

During six years (1986 -1992) as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against the labor unions seeking to represent store workers.

John Tate who was one of Clinton’s fellow board members, was leading Wal-Mart’s anti-union efforts. Tate was also Wal-Mart’s executive vice president and served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years. Tate favorite phrase was, as he admitted himself, “Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living.”

According to an ABC News report, published in 2008, Clinton appears in videotapes of the stockholder meetings where she never appears to defend the role of labor unions. On the contrary, the tapes show Clinton in the role of a loyal company woman. “I’m always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else,” she said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.


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The Clintons have been peddling Political Access for decades

[valerief]

1. When Sam Walton ran it, IIRC, Wal-Mart wasn't a monster. Sam died in 1992. nt

[SheilaT]

2. I have a friend, a woman I went to high school with,

who is a corporate attorney for Walmart. She's a liberal/progressive Democrat, and I simply cannot understand why she works for them. She has always complained that she's probably not paid as much as others at her level, and points out how very much expensive the homes are they live in, compared to what she can afford. She also, in the early years, more than once spoke of training some new male attorney and then seeing him promoted over her. In all honestly, she should be part of the lawsuit about gender discrimination, but she's not.

I think that for her it comes down to this: she likes the work well enough, she has done well enough financially, and it's easier to stay than to leave, especially now that she's in her 60s. But it bothers me a lot that she works for them.

She would have gone to work for them, if I can recall correctly, while Sam Walton was still at the helm, but I'm not entirely sure. I do know she started out as an outside lawyer hired on an ad hoc basis while she was with another law firm, to handle local things for them where she lived, and after a few years they offered her a full time permanent position, which she took, in no small part because she knew she'd never make partner at that firm, and this was a much better deal.