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Ahead of Black Friday, workers at Brookdale Shopping Center's Walmart walked off the job Monday with the support of dozens of other retail workforce activists, Nina Moini reports (1:41).
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/9568709-walmart-workers-in-brooklyn-center-walk-out-protest-low-wages/
cross posted from http://www.democraticunderground.com/10592404#post2
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)not to worry that this would affect black Friday shopping.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)We know where their priorities are.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)they also said they pay most of their hourly employees over $12.00 an hour. I find that hard to believe.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)They must mean their hourly manager employees.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)10 - 20 more cents an hour over minimum wage and then they give them only 16 hours a week on average.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)per hour in my area. I don't believe much of anything they say.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)with the workers, it probably averages $12.
Can't imagine they would ever give a real average of just workers.
Like - see if you average me & Bill Gates and Warren Buffet on average we have about $40 billion each.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Saw it in the MN group.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Walmart workers demanding higher wages walked off the job in Brooklyn Center Monday.
Similar strikes are happening across the country ahead of Black Friday. Workers are staging a national strike on the busiest shopping day of the year.
Congressman Keith Ellison joined the employees in Brooklyn Center to support their cause.
The workers are asking for at least $25,000 a year and for the company to provide full time positions for those who want them.
http://hennepin.kstp.com/news/news/420982-brooklyn-center-walmart-workers-demand-higher-wages-walk-job
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)More coverage: http://www.twelve.tv/news/newsitem.aspx?newsid=1424&newsitemid=23158
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Now if only Wal-Mart will listen.
BeatleBoot
(7,111 posts)until they're Unionized!
mahannah
(893 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)wages.