Documents Reveal That Protests Forced Wal-Mart To Raise Wages At 700 Stores
The lesson: when we fight, we win.
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Over the past two weeks, Wal-Mart stores and suppliers have been faced with sporadic one-day strikes all over the country, the first in the company’s 50-year history. Workers are now threatening to walk out on the store’s busiest shopping day of the year: Black Friday.
Many observers are wondering whether these small strikes and walk outs will have an impact on the notoriously anti-labor company. Matt Stoller at Naked Capitalism has the details on how past protests have actually dramatically improved things at Wal-Mart stores.
Stoller points to a document that has a transcript of the remarks of t. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole where he says a Wal-Mart contact told him there were raises in 700 Wal-Mart stores in 2006 thanks to the “social/political” protests against the company.
Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/documents-reveal-that-protests-forced-wal-mart-to-raise-wages-at-700-stores/
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