OUR Walmart Black Friday Protesters - 28:21
written by building bridges radio
at Monday, November 26, 2012
OUR Walmart Black Friday Protesters
Declare It Red Letter Day For
Workers!
With
. Elaine Rosier, Walmart worker, Miami Florida
. Gabe Teneyuque, Walmart striker, St. Paul, Minnesota
. Secaucus, New Jersey Walmart worker allies
Walmart faced not only a throng of shoppers on Black Friday but what a union-backed group, Organization for Respect at Walmart, (“Our Walmart”) said was the biggest wave of protests that the retailer had ever seen; 1,000 stores had demonstrations in 46 states, ranging from a couple of community supporters’ asking to talk with store managers about raising wages to raucous demonstrations in California, New Jersey and Washington that each attracted
With
. Elaine Rosier, Walmart worker, Miami Florida
. Gabe Teneyuque, Walmart striker, St. Paul, Minnesota
. Secaucus, New Jersey Walmart worker allies
Walmart faced not only a throng of shoppers on Black Friday but what a union-backed group, Organization for Respect at Walmart, (“Our Walmart”) said was the biggest wave of protests that the retailer had ever seen; 1,000 stores had demonstrations in 46 states, ranging from a couple of community supporters’ asking to talk with store managers about raising wages to raucous demonstrations in California, New Jersey and Washington that each attracted
hundreds of people. “In its 50-year
history, Wal-Mart has never seen strikes like those we’re seeing today,” said
Lynsey Kryzwick, a spokeswoman for OUR Walmart, which works closely with
the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. “It will be
hard for Wal-Mart to ignore all these workers and their allies calling for change at
Wal-Mart from improving the low wages and
unfair working conditions to
fighting retaliation. Our Walmart, has filed a complaint with the National Labor
Relations Board, saying that Wal-Mart had violated federal laws against
intimidating workers who seek to strike or otherwise protest by saying there
could be consequences — in the form of dismissals, demotions or reduction in work
hours.
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