HA!...." Wal-Mart Workers Win $62 Million"

[in_cog_ni_to]

Wal-Mart Workers Win $62 Million
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer

1 hour ago

PHILADELPHIA - Wal-Mart workers in Pennsylvania who previously won a $78.5 million class-action award for working off the clock will share an additional $62.3 million in damages, a judge ruled Wednesday.

About 125,000 people will receive $500 each in damages under a state law invoked when a company, without cause, withholds pay for more than 30 days.

A Philadelphia jury last year awarded the workers the exact amount they had sought, rejecting Wal-Mart's claim that some people chose to work through breaks or that a few minutes of extra work here and there was insignificant.

"Just as highly paid executives' promised equity interests or put options or percentage of sale proceeds are protected fringe benefits and wage supplements, so too the monetary equivalents of 'paid break' time cashiers and other employees were prohibited from taking are protected fringe benefits and wage supplements," Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Mark Bernstein wrote.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/10/03/778815.html&cvqh=itn_walmart



Plaintiffs, Michele Braun, left, Patricia Holley, Jacqueline Copeland, and Delores Killingsworth-Barber react outside a Philadelphia Common Pleas ...

[blondeatlast]

1. YES! And you know, I hope Wal-Mart challenges it--all the way to SCOTUS.

Bring it on, ya cheap bastards!

[BlooInBloo]

11. Oh god - I hope they don't. They'll probably WIN at SCOTUS level.

[mdmc]

2. R!

Nice!

[onehandle]

3. And Wal-Mart raises the price of tube socks by half a penny for five minutes to pay the check.

We need a lot more judgments like this.

[NMMNG]

4. Bravo

It's time employees' rights stood for something again.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Alright!

[Enrique]

6. I LOVE the picture you posted

time to :party:

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. I loved it too.....They look so happy!

I'm just thrilled for them. Finally, Walmart pays for how poorly they treat their employees.:bounce:

[Dukkha]

8. Wal-Mart: Always Higher Settlements

[malaise]

9. Great pix

great result.

[TahitiNut]

10. 125,000 people will share what a single CEO is given in a year.

I wonder how the evil spawn of Sam Walton will be impacted in the slightest by such an award. They'll lay off some workers, dump some stock, hire more lawyers, and continue to buy politicians who spout nonsense about "tort reform."

The executives who impose such conditions on employees through coercion belong in prison.

[Booster]

12. Hip, Hip Hooray!!!! Good for all of these people. They may not

get a whole lot of money, but they beat the giant.