By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
September 24, 2012
A strike at Walmart? Two of them. In a time when few union members dare strike, three dozen Southern California workers who move goods for Walmart were desperate enough to walk off their jobs September 12 even without union protection.
Three days later, 30 workers who’d been organizing with Warehouse Workers for Justice in Elwood, Illinois, southwest of Chicago, walked out, too.
Both groups of workers had taken legal action against their employers, contractors who move goods for Walmart, and their strikes were protesting illegal retaliation. [...]
Read the full article:
http://labornotes.org/2012/09/strikes-expose-hazards-walmarts-supply-chain
Sign a petition supporting the workers:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7209/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=11679
Donate to the strike fund:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=05S_PegQZKl7VovSjUR5M9zyJvWNNbC3Y2sPUEVzKmfjo4jHg89hjv84Nc8&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8db02a037e263542f58098410815cf7df7
Join a support demonstration Oct. 1 in Ellwood, IL:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7209/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=50305
For more on Wal-Mart exploiting immigrant workers:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2012/07/119444.html
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