Walmart Workers In Brooklyn Center (MN) Walk Out, Protest Low Wages

[geardaddy]

Last edited Tue Nov 26, 2013, 06:45 PM - Edit history (1)

Ahead of Black Friday, workers at Brookdale Shopping Center's Walmart walked off the job Monday with the support of dozens of other retail workforce activists, Nina Moini reports (1:41).

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/9568709-walmart-workers-in-brooklyn-center-walk-out-protest-low-wages/

cross posted from http://www.democraticunderground.com/10592404#post2

[geardaddy]

1. kick for exposure.

[ohheckyeah]

2. Walmart replied by telling customers

not to worry that this would affect black Friday shopping.

[geardaddy]

3. Not unexpected.

We know where their priorities are.

[ohheckyeah]

4. True....

they also said they pay most of their hourly employees over $12.00 an hour. I find that hard to believe.

[geardaddy]

5. Yeah, me too.

They must mean their hourly manager employees.

[cstanleytech]

12. Well I know for a fact that they dont do that in my area, in fact they barely pay most of them

10 - 20 more cents an hour over minimum wage and then they give them only 16 hours a week on average.

[ohheckyeah]

13. I certainly don't think they pay over $12

per hour in my area. I don't believe much of anything they say.

[rurallib]

16. If you add in management, other upper levels in a store

with the workers, it probably averages $12.
Can't imagine they would ever give a real average of just workers.

Like - see if you average me & Bill Gates and Warren Buffet on average we have about $40 billion each.

[ohheckyeah]

17. LOL true. n/t

[Laelth]

6. k&r for labor. n/t

-Laelth

[sakabatou]

7. Good for them

[myrna minx]

8. Excellent! K&R

[geardaddy]

9. I know, right?!

Saw it in the MN group.

[geardaddy]

10. More info: Ellison was striking with them.

Walmart workers demanding higher wages walked off the job in Brooklyn Center Monday.

Similar strikes are happening across the country ahead of Black Friday. Workers are staging a national strike on the busiest shopping day of the year.

Congressman Keith Ellison joined the employees in Brooklyn Center to support their cause.

The workers are asking for at least $25,000 a year and for the company to provide full time positions for those who want them.

http://hennepin.kstp.com/news/news/420982-brooklyn-center-walmart-workers-demand-higher-wages-walk-job

[geardaddy]

11. more coverage - Video of Ellison speaking

More coverage: http://www.twelve.tv/news/newsitem.aspx?newsid=1424&newsitemid=23158

&feature=player_embedded

[bearssoapbox]

14. Good.

Now if only Wal-Mart will listen.

[BeatleBoot]

15. K&R - I never shopped there and never will

until they're Unionized!

[mahannah]

18. I would not enter a Walmart if the stuff was free and they paid me to take it.

[blkmusclmachine]

19. Low, low

wages.

[DeSwiss]

20. K&R

[Skeeter Barnes]

21. Bring on the work stoppages! Build towards a nationwide general Strike!

[sheshe2]

22. K&R! nt