BOYCOTT WAL*MART = Wal-Mart labor group promises 1,500 Black Friday protests next week

[Coyotl]

Wal-Mart labor group promises 1,500 Black Friday protests next week
Amid scrutiny of Wal-Mart taking up employee-to-employee charity, strike wave continues against retail giant
Josh Eidelson -Nov 21, 2013 http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/wal_mart_labor_group_promises_1500_black_friday_protests_next_week/

The group behind the past year’s Wal-Mart strikes pledged Thursday to back an unprecedented 1,500 protests for “Black Friday” next week, but stopped short of predicting an increase in the number of Wal-Mart employees on strike compared to last year.

“Americans across the country are hearing us, and they are saying that they too want Wal-Mart to change,” Colorado Wal-Mart employee Barbara Gertz told reporters on a midday call. Gertz is an activist with the non-union worker group OUR Walmart, which is closely tied to the United Food & Commercial Workers union. As Salon first reported, OUR Walmart began mounting Wal-Mart work stoppages last fall, following five decades entirely free of coordinated Wal-Mart walkouts in the United States. Columbia political scientist Dorian Warren told reporters on OUR Walmart’s call that just as strikers after World War II turned General Motors from “the embodiment of all that was wrong with our economy” into a corporation that “eventually represented the American dream of upward mobility,” Wal-Mart strikers were now facing down a company that “represents the death of the American dream.” Wal-Mart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Like last year, OUR Walmart has backed a wave of one-day strikes in the weeks leading up to “Black Friday,” the high-profile, record-revenue shopping day that follows Thanksgiving. Q. Knapp, an employee who joined a walkout in Dallas yesterday, told reporters that she and her husband “went on strike not only for ourselves and our family, but also for countless Wal-Mart workers who are afraid to speak out about poverty wages because of retaliation.” Wal-Mart has terminated at least 20 workers who joined a longer June strike, a move OUR Walmart charges violates federal law. The company maintains it did not illegally retaliate. The federal National Labor Relations Board announced this week that it had found enough evidence to issue a complaint against the company for labor law violations. A delegation of five fired workers is headed to Arkansas to seek a meeting with the company’s U.S. CEO at which they would ask to be returned to their jobs. ...........

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1. Attend a Black Friday Protest Near You

Join Walmart workers around the country on Black Friday (Nov. 29th), the biggest shopping day of the year, as they stand up to Walmart and call for an end to retaliation against those who bravely speak out and a real wage of $25,000/yr.
Don't forget to download all of your protest materials.

Last year you told us you wanted more support and training to make sure you knew what to do. We heard you - and so we're having trainings all across the country - check them out here. If you're not near these, we'll also be having a phone training too (details coming soon).

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Sign up to visit a store near you on Black Friday!

Map and protest locator at link:
https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/black-friday-near-you

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3. I'm there!

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2. I think it's important for us to all get the message out that it's the taxpayers who are supporting

Wal Mart's profits. Many Americans may not agree with unionizing Wal Mart workers, or necessarily understand the plight of the workers, but everyone agrees that Wal Mart shouldn't be allowed insane profits because their workers are being subsidized by American taxpayers. The tea party and Republican party officials may not publicly argue against Wal Mart's labor practices, but their voters are tired of companies making those kinds of profits while American taxpayers foot the bill for the social programs.


Tell Wal-Mart to pay their workers so taxpayers don't have to!

[Coyotl]

4. "Boycott Wal*Mart" is a message the company needs to hear, in addition to pay living wages.

Let them grasp the degree of alienation they engender.