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Wal-Mart, America’s largest private employer and one of the worst union-busters in the country, is facing a worker rebellion at its stores and suppliers nationwide.
Earlier this week, workers at Los Angeles Wal-Mart warehouses and Seattle stores walked off the job. The Nation’s Josh Eidelson reports today that workers in Dallas joined these strikers:
This morning, at 10 AM local time, Dallas Walmart store workers are headed back to the picket line. Theirs is the latest in a string of strikes that hit a California warehouse Wednesday and Seattle stores on Thursday. There’s more where that came from: On a Thursday call with reporters, union-backed Walmart worker groups said to expect a thousand strikes or demonstrations spread over nine days, culminating in an unprecedented array of “Black Friday” disruptions. That news follows a major legal settlement by a Walmart contractor that organizers credited to a 2011 sit-in at Hershey’s Chocolate.
We’ll keep you up to date as we approach Black Friday, which is expected to be the largest day of strikes in Wal-Mart’s history.
UPDATE: The Corporate Action Network has set up a page for Americans to “adopt a Wal-Mart” to show up and support workers who will be walking out on Black Friday.
mary sasko says:
I am a union member, I will not cross a picket line!
philip delaney says:
I am not fortunate enough to be a union member, but I will not cross a picket line anyway. Workers unite!
Robert Michaud says:
I WILL cross a picket line because I need my stuff from walmart. I don’t even care about this crap, all it does is get in my way.
WeakSauce says:
And when you sir will be in similar need, we’ll turn our backs on you.
starlingirl says:
Spoken like a true caring individual, WeakSauce. And that’s the problem with unions. They are full of people like you who care only up to a point. After that, every man for himself.
Trent says:
Go workers…bring Wal-Mart to its knees…!!!!!
You have my full support!
Anthony says:
This is phenomenal! I am posting all over my facebook page, urging friends and family to boycott WALMART on Black Friday (and beyond)!