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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWalmart Holds Food Drive For Own Employees 'In Need'
Updated 4:10 PM EST, Fri Nov 21 2014
A group of Walmart employees posted a photo to Facebook on Thursday showing a food bin at a store in Oklahoma that was apparently put out as part of a food drive to help needy employees.
The accompanying caption for the photo detailed how Walmart holds interoffice food drives for hungry employees "rather than agree to pay a decent wage or provide full-time hours."
The photo was posted to the "Making Change" page, a campaign which describes its mission as "challenging Walmart to act responsibly and help rebuild our economy."
Last year, Walmart was criticized for setting up donation bins at a store in Ohio. During that drive, Kory Lundberg, spokesperson for the company, told The Plain Dealer newspaper that the drive was evidence that employees care about one another.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/walmart-food-drive-among-employees
Shame on Walmart.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Or money to pay workers!
uppityperson
(116,022 posts)for others and not getting paid enough by the company to eat and pay their basic bills.
indepat
(20,899 posts)access to health-care, among others, you prick-heads. In other words, you prick-heads, all people should be treated like human-beings and the fact that you don't shows your lack of humanity and human decency, you swell prick-heads.
lpbk2713
(43,274 posts)I'd be concerned the employees behind the food drive and the "hungry" employees would be fired by Wally World so they wouldn't have to get bad press. I hope someone can follow up on this in a few months to see if they are still employed.