Walmart Strikers Rally
at Company's Shareholder
Meeting
with
Tsegau Almaz, Walmart Associate, Crenshaw, Los Angeles, member “OUR Walmart Campaign”
Walmart strikers, with support from the OUR Walmart campaign, launched the first extended strike in the company's history, capping it with a rally outside the company's shareholder meeting in Bentonville, Ark, after a
week long “Ride for Respect.” Workers from more than 30 cities joined in the Ride For Respect to mobilize other Walmart workers and educate the public about Walmart’s many abuses. The Walmart workers seek higher pay, more hours of employment, health care, and protection from retaliation when they raise workers rights issues. Walmart's workers also raised the issues of the companies failure to provide for the health and safety of their workers in factories overseas that manufacture the products the retail giant sells – recalling the recent death of 1,239 garment workers in the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh. Kalpona Akter, the Ex. Dir., of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, who implored Walmart to take action to insure that the factories where Wal-Mart products are made should be safe for the workers joined the Bentonville rally.
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Cablevision Breaks Law, Then Attacks NLRB
with
Tim Dubnau, Organizing Coordinator, District One,
Communication Workers of America
Cablevision, the cable giant is asking the federal court to undermine the authority of the National Labor Relations Board in pursing complaints charging Cablevision with multiple violations of labor law. Since Brooklyn
technicians voted to unionize more than a year ago, Cablevision has refused to bargain in good faith. Cablevision actually fired 23 workers in Brooklyn
after the workers used management’s “open door” policy to talk to a vice president about how the company was stonewalling their first-contract bargaining. Cablevision has illegally intimidated workers, brazenly violated
federal law by firing workers for protected activity, while refusing to offer any improvements in wages to the newly unionized technicians in Brooklyn.
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