Walmart may be violating ADA law - DRA is investigating -- deaf people..

[Hawkeye-X]

As most of you know I'm deaf and anti-WalFart, this came across on my regular deaf newsletter, so I thought I should pass it along.. If you know deaf people who works at Wal-Fart, pass it to them.


Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), a non-profit law center in Oakland, California, is investigating complaints from Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Wal-Mart Employees, especially those from California, who have experienced discrimination during their employment with Wal-Mart. Please contact us if you have experienced any of the following:

Failure to provide sign-language interpreters, TTYs or close captioned videos unavailable
Harassment or other differential treatment
Safety concerns (example: no flashing emergency lights or other means of notifying you of an emergency)
Any other concerns regarding discrimination due to your disability
We can be reached at:

Email: [e-mail]

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

U.S. Mail: Disability Rights Advocates, Attn: Wal-Mart, 449 15th Street, Suite 303, Oakland CA 94612

[Bryn]

1. I was mistreated because of my Service Dog once...

:hi: I am also deaf

I am in South Florida. While back I brought my hearing service dog to Wal-Mart close to where I lived and was treated rudely. They thought only the blind could, not the deaf and other HC people even though they had a sign saying "service dogs". Shane, my dog, was wearing orange jacket/collar. One of employees pressed her finger hard on my shoulder because I couldn't hear her talking to me behind my back and asked if I was blind!! Huh? I never went back there. I ought to report them.

[Democracy White]

2. I am hearing impaired

and it is sad to see that people with such disablities (and I mean all disablities) are being mistreated in this manner. My grand father Durward C. Young fought so hard for such provisions. He was the one that got the Handicap Act passed here in Michigan from which my mother tells me was the forerunner for the ADA.

He since passed away five years ago and I miss him dearly.

He would not be pleased with Wal-Mart's treatment of deaf and HOH people.

Dee