* The AFL-CIO plays hardball:

The AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor group, is asking the New York Stock Exchange to investigate Wal- Mart Stores Inc.’s executive-compensation practices.

The AFL-CIO wants the NYSE to look at whether Wal-Mart is violating one of the company’s own corporate-governance rules by allowing management, rather than its outside directors, to hire a compensation consultant who advises on pay for top executives, according to a Feb. 23 letter AFL-CIO Treasurer Rich Trumka sent to the exchange.

* How many times am I going to have to link to the Consumerist today?

* Who knew the gnomes were this restless?:

Wal-Mart says it sees no need to split itself into multiple companies despite its growing global size and suggestions from some financial analysts that it shed some businesses to generate cash.

* And people more creative than I am might want to play with this. Send us your links if you come up with something good.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 at 2039 by Jonathan Rees and is filed under Customer Satisfaction, Organized Labor, Wal Mart Watch, Wall Street, Walmart. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.