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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:15 PM Oct 2012

Walmart Workers: This Is Why We're Striking And Making Black Friday Threat

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/10/11/walmart-workers-this-is-why-were-striking-and-making-black-fri/

While recent strikes at two Walmart warehouses in South California and Elwood, Ill., ended successfully, with Walmart agreeing to end retaliation, there is no guarantee of that happening with a much larger strike, in the name of the 1.4 million retail workers directly employed by Walmart.

Most Walmart employees can't afford to strike for any extended period of time either, and Greg, Charlene and William will be back at work in the lead up to Black Friday. "Walmart doesn't pay us enough to give us any kind of savings," William explains. "I'm sure it's by design."

In times of such high unemployment, the employer holds the cards; in the past year, applying for a job at some Walmart stores has been as competitive as a place at Harvard. Given the risks, why are these Walmart workers willing to join this strike? What exactly do they hope to gain? And how many will be willing to join them?

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Walmart Workers: This Is Why We're Striking And Making Black Friday Threat (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Oct 2012 OP

kr HiPointDem Oct 2012 #1

Solidarity workers. geardaddy Oct 2012 #2

Yeah the Walton family spent $1 billion on an art museum. Initech Oct 2012 #3

Work and starve, or strike and hope for a better life? Ikonoklast Oct 2012 #4

I will not be shopping at Walmart for the foreseeable future, and anyone who does is a scab! n/t backscatter712 Oct 2012 #5

HiPointDem

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1. kr

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:25 PM

Oct 2012

geardaddy

(24,946 posts)

2. Solidarity workers.

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:27 PM

Oct 2012

Initech

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3. Yeah the Walton family spent $1 billion on an art museum.

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:29 PM

Oct 2012

The workers are left fighting for what's left of the scraps.

Ikonoklast

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4. Work and starve, or strike and hope for a better life?

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:34 PM

Oct 2012

I VOTE STRIKE.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)

5. I will not be shopping at Walmart for the foreseeable future, and anyone who does is a scab! n/t

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 04:48 PM

Oct 2012

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