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>> will wal-mart stay or will it go? it's the question this morning after lawmakers passed a bill that would require employers to pay workers a minimum of $12.50 an hour. wal-mart threatened on the plan to build 3 stores in the area if this bill passed. we are learning a company spokesperson says wal-mart has called off the construction of those three stores. law americas saying they won't be bullied. listen to this. >> i don't like that tax. what they are afraid of is it may spread around the country. what they will do is stick up the company. >> a company spokesperson says wal-mart may stop ...

And operating in spaces 75,000 square feet or larger. it's really all about walmart. the federal minimum wage is $7.25 and where washington, d.c., has its own minimum wage, walmart will need to bay a super minimum wage of $12.50 an hour and walmart is saying if this is signed into law, walmart will stop construction on planned stores in the district. in the united states, the average wage for a full-time hour walmart association is $12.57 according to the company, about $25,000 a year above the federal poverty level of $23,050 for a family of four. many part-time workers at the company make li...

The country's largest private employer dared d.c. lawmakers to call their bluff today. executives and lobbyists from walmart issued the following threat to d.c. councilmembers. try to force us to pay our employees a living wage, we won't build a store in the d.c. area. promising to cancel plans for three of six stores planned for the district. it felt like walmart was sticking guns to councilmembers heads. still, the d.c. council held their ground and voted 8-5 this afternoon to require retailers with corporate sales $1 billion or more to pay their employees no less than 12.50 an hour. now, th...

There are a lot of folks on the west side of chicago who are shopping there because their prices are low. i don't know, if you did a survey, whether they would say they're sorry that walmart came in. what do you say to that? >> i agree with you, i think as consumers where there are existing businesses, people love walmart, if you ask the workers in those stores, you'll get a different answer. because walmart's pitch to urban america is, we're going to create quality jobs for you, in places of high unemployment. we know that's not the case. they have a policy of not only hiring temporary worker...

Wages $12.50 an hour? the reason this is an imbo sillic policy, walmart has a choice. they have six stores they are looking at opening up in the washington, d.c., area, oftentimes by the way in very undeveloped areas, poor areas that need the jobs that need the economic development. here's the problem with saying pay the people $12.50 an hour. those -- walmart is now saying they may not open up those stores. so it's not whether these workers have $12.50 an hour. these workers are going to get nothing because the store may not be there. >> consequently those district residents are going to have...