If you take a good look behind Wal-Mart’s yellow smiley face, you won’t see the store Sam Walton built. His dream started nearly 40 years ago. The Wal-Mart Sam began building in 1962 was a business that cared about employees and the communities they served. Sam Walton made it his personal business to make sure that was the case. It’s no wonder employees said. "In Sam We Trust," because they could rely on his intervention to fix any problem that came up.

Sam’s gone now, and the down-home store he built has been shattered by Wal-Mart management at the company’s home office in Bentonville. Ark. Now the store behind the yellow, happy face is one of the world’s biggest antiunion companies. All the retail giant’s U.S. stores are nonunion. Its transportation and distribution network is nonunion, much of its manufacturing is nonunion with most of it coming from foreign countries, and the company’s entire food division, except for 10 courageous meat department workers in a Wal-Mart supercenter in Jacksonville. Texas. is nonunion.

• Lost U.S. jobs.

• Rising U.S. health care costs.

• Lower wage and benefits for all American workers.

While good union families try to shop in union stores, sometimes they can’t. When you or your co-workers must shop at Wal-Mart ask them to...

• Buy only American-made products when shopping Wal-mart.

• Ask Wal-Mart managers why they sell so many foreign made products while the company encourages American patriotism.

• Tell Wal-Mart employees that union families across the country support their desire for fair treatment and good wages and benefits and will help them achieve union representation.

• Tell management to obey the law and respect workers’ right to organize to make Wal-Mart a better place to work.

You can let Wal-Mart workers know that joining with co-workers to form a union would empower them to end unfair management practices. Tell Wal-Mart workers to call the toll-free, confidential hotline at 1-800-695-0603.