Denver - The Colorado Workers' Rights Board will conduct a public hearing on Wal-Mart's business practices in Colorado and globally. The hearing will be held Wed., Nov. 15, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1400 Lafayette St., Denver.

The Colorado Workers' Rights Board promotes and advocates for the democratic rights of working people. It does so through a variety of activities, including: investigating complaints from workers regarding unfair treatment, discrimination or suppression of efforts to organize for a voice on the job; and through raising public awareness of the lack of workers' rights and protections under federal law.

In choosing Wal-Mart as the subject for its hearing, the Workers' Rights Board picked the state's and the world's largest private employer. (The company employed some 22,000 Coloradans as of last year.) The board will hear testimony from expert witnesses on the following topics:

• The Wal-Mart Effect on Local Businesses
• What the Cost of a Cheap T-Shirt Means for Workers Globally
• The Right to a Voice on the Job for Wal-Mart Workers
• Public Subsidies for Private Gain
• Wal-Mart, Healthcare and Your Tax Dollars at Work
• Gender Discrimination at Wal-Mart
• Wal-Mart and the Environment

The Colorado Workers' Rights Board is comprised of a dozen distinguished community leaders: clergy, academics, nonprofit-organization directors, state legislators, lawyers. The board is a project of Colorado Jobs with Justice, a coalition of labor-, community- and faith-based organizations.

For more information, contact Colorado Jobs with Justice at 303-806-0818 or director@cojwj.org