The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care
and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA050407.nunsvswalmart.KENS.3a704ac5.html

05/05/2007

Wal-Mart labels Boerne nuns a security threat

Nydia Lopez
KENS 5 Eyewitness News

It's a David versus Goliath battle heating up in the Hill Country - a
group of nuns from Boerne is taking a stand against Wal-Mart.

The corporate giant reportedly labeled the nuns a security threat
after they raised questions about Wal-Mart's business practices.

Sister Susan Mika is part of the Benedectine Sisters, which is part of
the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.

The center has been questioning Wal-Mart's business practices for
years.

"We've been raising questions with them for about 17 years, so it's
not like they don't know it," Sister Mika said.

Now, the sisters find themselves on Wal-Mart's security threat list.

Sister Mika said the group has been wrongly labeled.

"In no way have we ever been a threat to the company in that sense. We
might be a threat in the kind of question that we're asking, but not a
security threat," Sister Mika said.

The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care
and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers.

They believe that's why Wal-Mart has launched a surveillance operation
on the small church group.

"We wanted to find out more about what was actually happening, and did
they do any surveillance on us, either personally or as a community,
and to let us know what that would be, and to apologize to us," Sister
Mika said.

Calls from KENS 5 to a Wal-Mart spokesperson went unreturned.

The nuns say they want an apology and will continue to raise concerns
and issues until someone launches an investigation into thousands of
allegations against Wal-Mart.

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The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care
and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA050407.nunsvswalma...

05/05/2007

Wal-Mart labels Boerne nuns a security threat