Wal-Mart’s PR Firm Sent This Flack to Pose as a Reporter to Spy on a Pro-Labor Group [Updated] [Wal-Mart]

Wal-Mart is trying to open a new store in LA’s Chinatown area. Local labor groups, among others, are challenging the store’s permitting. It’s a fight with big stakes for Wal-Mart, as it goes right to the heart of the company’s strategy of expanding in large cities. And now, one labor group says that an employee of a PR firm working for Wal-Mart actually posed as a reporter in order to infiltrate one of their meetings. More »