Walmart Strikes: More Workers Join Fight In Oklahoma, Claim Intimidation
Source: huffington post
The wave of organized Walmart strikes that hit 12 states last week has now inspired more of the company's employees to take up the cause.
On Sunday evening, a band of renegade Walmart employees in Sapulpa, Okla., left work to protest without the aid of national labor groups. Stirred by what they saw on the news, Jeffrey Landry, David Gibbs and Nathan Beck stood outside in the vast parking lot of their Supercenter with homemade signs, beckoning cars to honk.
Unlike last week's strikers, who were nearly all members of the union-backed worker organization OUR Walmart, the Oklahomans had no outside assistance putting together their action.
"I saw what was happening at stores in Dallas and around the country, and I did my research," said Landry, 34, whose homemade sign protested workers' hours being cut. Landry said Walmart slashed his hours a month ago after he involved a regional HR manager in a workplace dispute over department placement.
"They're trying to prove they're in charge by silencing me," said Landry, a father of three who earns $8.65 an hour and has worked at Walmart for two and a half years.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/walmart-strikes-sapulpa-oklahoma_n_1971850.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
kooljerk666
(776 posts)no one had had heard of this.
I am gonna look for some printable material to hand to to Walmart employe's till they throw me out.
smaug
(230 posts)That's why they've not heard of it. Even the local Arkansas television station nearest Wally World's hometown has short news snippets on the ongoing strike (I live about 150 miles south of Bentonville).
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)would u do me a favor n post some links or something?
id like to do the same thing and itd be a real time saver
ill try to help find some stuff later tonite... unfortunately im tied up most of the day
kooljerk666
(776 posts)dirty tricks & "secret" internal memos.............
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)This store is just a few miles from my house, if I had known I would have gone over and joined them in support
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,653 posts)K&R!