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

 

...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.

Warehouse Workers United, a group working to improve labor conditions for Wal-Mart's LA warehouse workers, says that its press conference last week was infiltrated by an undercover Wal-Mart functionary....

 

[The junior PR was fired but the agency's explanation smells fishy - JD]