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Maxima: environmentally responsible sweatshop or falsely accused?

A famous Lithuanian journalist Arturas Racas reposted a letter he received from the Union of Wage Labourers about a violation committed by the biggest Lithuanian supermarket chain, Maxima. The chain actively took part in the nation-wide day for environmental event, "Darom 2010" (LT: Let's do 2010). The event encouraged people to get together and clean up their environment. Apparently, some of those ad hoc environmental activists even discovered the body of Drasius Kedys, who is a hero for some and a criminal for others after shooting two persons who allegedly brought young children, including his daughter, to pedophiles. Anyway, I don't have any knowledge about this case, so let's leave it for now. Maxima supplied rubbish bags and other materials for volunteers and promised to get its staff actively involved in the event. The Union claims that employees of Maxima were forced to take part.

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"When I see that after this [the govt's decision to decrease salaries in public schools by 5%, while other employees of the public sector got a 10% decrease] a part of the labour unions come and protest, I start doubting whether we did the right thing by applying a different [salary] reduction rate to some groups, despite the fact that some ministers encouraged applying a unified rate for all" - that's what the PM said as teachers' unions were protesting against the so-called National Agreement (= the govt, representatives of big business, representatives of the bureaucracy from mock unions).

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This blog is about urban transformations, the use of urban spaces, and how all of it relates to broader political frameworks in Eastern Europe and beyond. 'Wonderland' expresses, on one hand, my ironic view over what I see. So don't accept what you see here as objective information. What is stated in this blog is a position, yet I hope you'll find it interesting. On the other hand, with this blog I want to encourage everybody to never stop wondering, even if you are in your native city. So, let's start wa/ondering together! All photos posted here are taken by the blog author unless otherwise noted. If any problem with the posting of a particular photo is brought to my attention, I will review the problem and remove the photo if necessary. For those who write comments: they can be CENSORED. Although I'm interested in hearing different opinions, even radical ones, I won't tolerate swearwords and hate speech on my blog. Comments must be written in one of the languages I understand (LT, EN, DE, SE, RU, JP, HE). Remember that this is a blog, so I'll regard such comments as "The views expressed here are subjective and biased" as meaningless.

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