Protesters stage sit-in outside Wal-Mart heiress’ Park Avenue condo

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Posted 10/16/2014 6:54 pm
Twenty-five protesters were arrested on Thursday after attempting to deliver a petition at Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton’s Park Avenue condo demanding the retail giant provide better conditions for its workers and set an example for other big-box chains to follow.



Although Wal-Mart does not have stores in New York City, the Retail Action Project (RAP) whose parent union, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, helped organized the protest, said in a statement that “the Walton family has helped bring Wal-Mart’s worst employment practices to fast-food chains and non-union retailers here.”

The Walton family maintains the controlling interest in Wal-Mart.

The 2012 median annual pay for retail sales workers was $21,410, below the federal poverty line for a family of two adults and two children of $23,624. As many as 525,000 full-time hourly employees earn less than $25,000 a year, according to Bloomberg.



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