Wal-Mart resistance to escalate next week

[Teamster Jeff]

Planned bus routes to Bentonville next week.
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Next week Wal-Mart workers will turn up the volume a notch in their campaign to be treated decently by the retail giant. Echoing the freedom riders of the Civil Rights movement, they will ride in caravans of buses to the company's June 7 annual meeting in Bentonville, Ark.

The buses will be leaving from all over the U.S., including Southern California, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. They'll pick up Wal-Mart associates along the way. They're hoping for support from union members and other allies at their stops.


Josh Eidelson at The Nation reported earlier this month:

Several days before the shareholder gathering, caravans will leave from several cities around the country, stopping along the way to pick up workers and supporters, and to meet with community activists. OUR Walmart’s plans for the next month also include confrontations between Walmart employees and members of the company’s board of directors

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http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/05/wal-mart-resistance-to-escalate-next.html

[midnight]

1. The Walmart business model is an attack on simple basic humanity...

Pg.96 says it all... Overworking employes, and even locking them into the store, illegal business practices...etc...

http://ijaebm.iserp.org/archieves/1-D16-31-10/Vol-No.1-Issue-No.2/5-IJAEBM-Volume-No-1-Issue-No-2-Walmart-Business-Model-Study-093-097.pdf

[demosincebirth]

2. Their new advertisements on TV and just sickning. One guys says he saves enough at WM to save

for his kids college fund. Stupid.

[femmocrat]

3. I saw one that shows a "worker" (I bet he was)....

saying that Walmart has tuition credits or reimbursements now. Does anyone know if that is true?

[demosincebirth]

4. Probably, only, for top level managers and not for the average "associate."