Walmart Wouldn't Make a Dime Without Its Workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Walmart-Wouldn-t-Make-a-Dime-Without-Its-Workers




10/16/2014Jackie Tortora


A group of Walmart workers marched today from the AFL-CIO to the Washington, D.C., Walton Family Foundation's offices to deliver more signatures from 1,710 Walmart stores in all 50 states asking Walmart to publicly commit to pay $15 an hour and provide full-time hours.

Shouts of "We're fired up! Can't take it no more!" rang out as the workers and hundreds of supporters and allies marched down I Street and made their way to the foundation offices. Before the workers attempted to deliver the petitions, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka reminded everyone that Walmart, which rakes in billions every year, wouldn't make a dime without its workers, yet pays wages so low that many of its workers need to rely on public assistance and food stamps to get by.

One Walmart worker, Isaiah, shared heartbreaking stories of seeing co-workers cry in the Walmart break room when they found out their hours had been cut, making it impossible to provide for their families.

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1. Thank you!

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Celebrating these employees!

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2. KnR

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3. K&R

Omaha Steve, you are burning your computer up. Do you ever sleep? Thank you so much for all your posts, bringing us the good, the bad AND the ugly.

[Tommymac]

4. Reminder: Make sure you give generously this Holiday Shopping Season.

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5. K & R

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7. Neither would any company in America...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The last good republican president- Abraham Lincoln.

[WillyT]

8. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[Omaha Steve]

9. I have another Walmart post going up today

Keep your eyes open.