Walmart Workers Mobilize for 'Unprecedented' Nationwide Strikes

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/28-2



Massive turnout expected for strike against low wages, illegal retaliation

Walmart Workers Mobilize for 'Unprecedented' Nationwide Strikes
- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer
Published on Thursday, November 28, 2013 by Common Dreams

As the shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday came early this year with an increasing amount of retailers opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day, employees for one of the largest big-box-stores in the country, Walmart, prepared protests for 1,500 locations nationwide.

Organizers with the group OUR Walmart, who have helped rally Walmart workers that are fed up with poverty wages and poor working conditions at the retail giant's locations across the country, said this year's protests will be "unprecedented" in scope.

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According to OUR Walmart, protests this Black Friday are expected in major metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Miami, Bay Area, Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C., Minneapolis and Sacramento amongst other locations, "in what is set to be one of the largest mobilizations of working families in American history."

In addition to better labor standards, full time work opportunities and fair wages, the workers are calling for an end to illegal retaliation by Walmart against outspoken employees and those who have taken part in actions.

[LiberalEsto]

1. K&R

[Laelth]

2. k&r for labor. n/t

-Laelth

[sakabatou]

3. This has needed to happen for a while

but I'm glad they're doing it now.