25,000 Volunteer for Exploitation

It’s not every day that you see 25,000 people lined up to be oppressed by the mustachioed villains from Bentonville.

Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits.

The new Wal-Mart at 2500 W. 95th is one block west of Western Avenue, the city boundary.

Of 25,000 job applicants, all but 500 listed Chicago addresses, said John Bisio, regional manager of public affairs for Wal-Mart.

For all the fuss about how Wal-Mart mistreats its associates terribly and is the most horrible threat to the modern worker since sweatshops were legal, it sure seems like folks line up over and over again to work there.

Could it be that the company’s most vociferous critics – labor unions and stores that compete with Wal-Mart – might not be completely honest in their criticisms?

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