Wal-Mart employee starts petition for CEO's ouster

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Source: Reuters

A deli manager at a Walmart store has started an online petition calling for the resignations of the retailer's chairman and chief executive officer in the wake of allegations that top management squelched an internal probe into bribery allegations.

Venazi Luna, who works at the Walmart in Pico Rivera, California, near Los Angeles, started the petition on Thursday and had more than 4,300 signatures as of Friday afternoon. Luna, who has worked at Walmart for seven years, said she wanted to get 10,000 online signatures or more.

The petition calls for the resignation of Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) Chairman S. Robson Walton and CEO Mike Duke as well as for "a thorough and independent investigation by a highly-respected external organization."

In an interview, Luna said that after she got the signatures, she wanted to bring the petition to Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to show management that this was what employees wanted.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/us-walmart-petition-idUSBRE83Q12420120427

[Scuba]

1. Awesome! No money for health insurance, but plenty for bribery.

WalMart workers take a lot of abuse. They deserve none. Good on them for this effort.

[cloudbase]

2. Soon to be ex-Wal-Mart employee starts petition for CEO's ouster.

You read it here first.

[IamK]

3. the ceo will outlast the petitioner.....

[longship]

4. She will be so-o-o fired!

At will, minimum wage, part-time, replaceable body.

[Omaha Steve]

5. Link to the petition

http://www.ufcw.org/

[jdadd]

7. Thanks....Signed

[Meiko]

6. See ya.

There is a chance she will be ignored and keep her job.