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For several years, Walmart's annual shareholders meeting has been the staging ground for high-profile protests against the retail giant's treatment of it...

#savetheunion #laborlaws #walmartisafuckingcult

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Like the title says. When an associate sees posted  the schedule he start to make plans for the different things to perform with his  family or friends. When he realized that his schedule changes at the last minute them he reslized thst his at the mercy of the company.

This lack of respect had been going a while, even associates sometimes realized the the schedule they saw  changed overnight.…

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Walmart keeps "better and better"

Walmart keeps “better and better”

One of the rights as associates in this “great” company is to accumulate hours for vacations. One as an associate eagerly anticipates the time goes by because in that time we accumulate hours so we can organize to picks the days for our vacations to spend it we our family.

Unfortunately we are at the mercy of taking the vacation according to the analyzes that have to make the HR staff and the…

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Walmart Organiza Contra Trabajadores

Posted 1 year ago on Jan. 14, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt 

Una publicación realizada por el grupo de Anonymous que estaría dirigido a Walmart dicta lo siguiente: hemos recibido los siguientes documentos secretos internos sobre los intentos de Walmart para frustrar a los trabajadores que se movilizan por los derechos básicos y un salario decente. Estos documentos recorren un largo camino…

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Within the labor movement, we never want to share publicly critiques of our work that might be utilized by our class enemies—in this case, Walmart. I appreciated the energy and excitement among the participants in the OUR Walmart campaign and observers who saw it as a potential renaissance moment for labor. I didn't want to be perceived as an old crank pissing on a new parade that didn't fit my measure of what worker organizing should be. And I have long thought the campaign was helping create a national climate for an increase in the minimum wage for all workers. That certainly was a good thing.

But my reticence to make such critiques public has now been overridden by other considerations. For one thing, the campaign’s weaknesses are and were never a secret. Walmart bosses have been well aware of the campaign’s problems and lack of support among workers.

Second, the OUR Walmart model is not unique. Other campaigns based on it include the Fight for 15 campaign and the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC). It is a model that needs to be carefully examined and challenged if we are going to successfully organize masses of workers.

I hope my criticisms can serve as constructive discussion on the way forward. I have no desire to participate in the game of criticism that snipes at those doing the work in the field; nor am I institutionally involved in one-or-another of the points of view discussed here. I’m simply a longtime labor organizer who wants to see a campaign against Walmart win someday—and I’m convinced that the campaign we’ve seen against Walmart thus far is not a path to victory.  

This is a pretty good read and y’all should read all of it. Erik Loomis also had this to add:  

Yes to all three of these points. Obviously Walmart plays the role of gigantic evil corporation to target in the same way as McDonald’s and you can see why targeting it is appealing. It will get a lot of publicity, a lot of people already have a negative view of the corporation (at least compared to other corporations), and a victory would be a spark for larger reinvigoration of the labor movement. The problems Onley discusses however are too much to overcome and that’s why it’s hard to blame UFCW for pulling the funding. I know everyone wants labor to be a social movement but after awhile, you have to ask how was this is a good use of members’ dues. It just wasn’t. Going after the supply chain, building density among Walmart’s competitors, and focusing campaigns on stores with real in-store militancy among workers is simply more likely to be more successful. May not be very sexy but might lead to a lot more real victories for American workers in the end. Including maybe at Walmart.

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Black Friday Protests Kick Off In Dozens Of Cities

Dozens of Black Friday Actions Take Place Outside Walmart Stores Nationwide OUR Walmart and Allies United in Call for $15/hour And Full-Time

Comes On The Heels Of A More Than Two Week Fast By 1,400 Calling Out The Giant Retailer for the Hunger Crisis at Walmart

Black Friday Protests (Image by Mary Clinton Twitter)

Friday, November 27, 2015 — Today, in cities across the county, Walmart workers and dozens of allied groups are joining together in a united call for “$15 and full-time” for the millions of hardworking associates who are struggling to put food on the table this holiday season on Walmart’s poverty pay and inconsistent hours. Today’s actions, outside a dozen Walmart stores across the nation, comes on the heels of a more than two-week fast by 1,400 people, including hundreds of Walmart workers, many of whom are working this holiday season, including Jasmine Dixon, a mother of two in Denver Colorado and Lisa Pietro, a grandmother in Winter Haven, Florida. This is the fourth year of Black Friday actions by OUR Walmart and the biggest coalition yet – with more than twenty-two different organizations partnering in the actions.

OUR Walmart Black Friday actions are taking place at hundreds of stores across the country today including large crowds expected in: New York City, Tampa, Washington, DC, Miami, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland and Detroit.  More than 200,000 have signed petitions calling on Walmart to change. You can follow along using the hashtag #Fastfor15 and learn more at: http://protests.blackfriday.

Their message is clear: while Walmart employees can barely put food on the table this Thanksgiving, Walmart continues to thrive as the largest supplier of groceries in the nation and line the pockets of the Walton family with corporate greed. Anything less than $15 and full-time is not enough for Walmart workers.

“This Black Friday, Walmart will not be able to ignore their employees who sacrifice time with their families—even on Thanksgiving, like me—to earn a paycheck that won’t even cover basic groceries,” said Pat Scott, a Walmart employee in Washington. “We’ve been fasting for $15 an hour and full-time work outside of stores and Walton estates across the country—they know we’re going hungry, that my co-workers and I skip meals and pick up our dinners at food banks on our way home. The question is whether Walmart will use any of last year’s $16 billion in profits to do anything about it.

“This Thanksgiving, I worked at Walmart for the third year in a row because I worry about becoming homeless again like I was when Walmart forced me to taken an early, unpaid maternity leave,” said Jasmine Dixon, a Walmart employee in Colorado. “But I deserve more than such a low wage that my family and I still have to rely on food stamps and donations. Walmart needs to learn to respect us as people who work hard every day and stop taking advantage of us.”

This week, OUR Walmart released company testimony to the public for the first time revealing Walmart’s surveillance of their workers fighting for $15 an hour and full-time work in the wake of Black Friday strikes in 2012 and the “Ride for Respect” in 2013. In addition to closely monitoring the lawful labor rights activism of its associates on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, as the company faced a wave of bad publicity and negative same store sales, Walmart enlisted military industrial giant Lockheed Martin to spy on its workers and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to gather intelligence on protests.  

In response to these acts by Walmart, OUR Walmart is launching a campaign focused on key members of the congress whose responsibility it is to oversee the FBI and its activities.  You can see the campaign here – https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/help-us-ensure-that-walmart-stops-collaborating-with-the-fbi-terrorism-taskforce.

Quick Facts:

●     The Walton heirs own half of Walmart, which raked in $16 billion in profits over the last year. Their wealth has been greater than the bottom 42 percent of all American families combined.

●     More Americans buy their groceries at Walmart than anywhere else — capturing about 25% of the grocery market in the U.S., and up from around 7% in 2002, yet workers can’t even afford to shop there.

●     Walmart is the largest company by revenue in the US — and their US retail sales exceed those of Kroger, Target and Costco combined.

●     37 million people shop at Walmart every day — that’s more than the entire population of Canada.

Black Friday Protests Kick Off In Dozens Of Cities was originally published on NH Labor News

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Walmart Workers Claim Mass Closures Were Retaliation, Not To Fix 'Plumbing Problems'

Walmart Workers Claim Mass Closures Were Retaliation, Not To Fix ‘Plumbing Problems’

Last Monday, Walmart abruptly shuttered five storesacross the country, ostensibly due to long-standing plumbing problems that would take six months to fix. However, the decision was made with virtually no warning; workers were given only a few hours’ notice before the stores closed at 7 p.m. local time. Additionally, there is no evidence that Walmart obtained any permits required for plumbing…

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Walmart Workers Claim Mass Closures Were Retaliation, Not To Fix 'Plumbing Problems'

Walmart Workers Claim Mass Closures Were Retaliation, Not To Fix ‘Plumbing Problems’

Last Monday, Walmart abruptly shuttered five storesacross the country, ostensibly due to long-standing plumbing problems that would take six months to fix. However, the decision was made with virtually no warning; workers were given only a few hours’ notice before the stores closed at 7 p.m. local time. Additionally, there is no evidence that Walmart obtained any permits required for plumbing…

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