Wal-Mart: Nuns A Security Threat

Its a David versus Goliath battle heating up in the Hill Country - a group of nuns from Boerne is taking a stand against Wal-Mart. The corporate giant reportedly labeled the nuns a security threat after they raised questions about Wal-Marts business practices. Sister Susan Mika is part of the Benedictine Sisters, which is part of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. The center has been questioning Wal-Marts business practices for years. "Weve been raising questions with them for about 17 years, so its not like they dont know it," Sister Mika said. Now, the sisters find themselves on Wal-Marts security threat list. Sister Mika said the group has been wrongly labeled. "In no way have we ever been a threat to the company in that sense. We might be a threat in the kind of question that were asking, but not a security threat," Sister Mika said. The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers. They believe thats why Wal-Mart has launched a surveillance operation on the small church group. "We wanted to find out more about what was actually happening, and did they do any surveillance on us, either personally or as a community, and to let us know what that would be, and to apologize to us," Sister Mika said. Calls from KNWA to a Wal-Mart spokesperson went unreturned. The nuns say they want an apology and will continue to raise concerns and issues until someone launches an investigation into thousands of allegations against Wal-Mart.