Wal-Mart workers on strike (First time in Wal-Mart’s 50-year history)
Source: Salon
Employees protesting working conditions and retaliation are flexing their organizing muscle. But the first-of-its-kind strike carries risks
By Josh Eidelson
Today, for the first time in Wal-Mart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores are out on strike. Minutes ago, dozens of workers at Southern California stores launched a one-day work stoppage in protest of alleged retaliation against their attempts to organize. In a few hours, they’ll join supporters for a mass rally outside a Pico Rivera, Calif., store. This is the latest – and most dramatic – of the recent escalations in the decades-long struggle between organized labor and the largest private employer in the world.
“I’m excited, I’m nervous, I’m scared…” Pico Rivera Wal-Mart employee Evelin Cruz told Salon yesterday about her decision to join today’s strike. “But I think the time has come, so they take notice that these associates are tired of all the issues in the stores, all the management retaliating against you.” Rivera, a department manager, said her store is chronically understaffed: “They expect the work to be done, without having the people to do the job.”
Wal-Mart is entirely union-free in North America, and has worked aggressively to stay that way. Today’s strike is an outgrowth of a year of organizing by OUR Walmart, an organization of Wal-Mart workers. OUR Walmart is backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, but hasn’t sought union recognition from Wal-Mart; its members have campaigned for improvements in their local stores and converged at Wal-Mart’s annual shareholder meeting.
FULL 2 page story at link.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/04/walmart_workers_on_strike/singleton/
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W*M warehouse workers. (Still looking for a photo or video of a picket line in front of a retail outlet, that'll be a keeper)
It means something like "Health is not Sold." Love it! 
yes ! yes ! yes ! about bloody time . makes my skin crawl when i hear that the workers automaticly qualify for ssi and other publice assistance programs , when it took me and my team 5 years . go you wal mart workers go .
That's what I gather from your post unless you can explain it otherwise...
I think you may have misread/misinterpreted what he meant. Either that or I did. 
this is a huge first step.
