Wal-Mart sues grocery union, others over trespassing in Florida
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) has sued a major grocery workers union and others who have protested at its Florida stores, the latest salvo in its legal fight to stop "disruptive" rallies in and around its stores by groups seeking better pay and working conditions.
Wal-Mart does not have union-represented workers in its U.S. stores. Nevertheless, it has long faced opposition from various labor groups including the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), and from a small but vocal group of current and former employees backed by the union and known as OUR Walmart.
The lawsuit filed on Friday in Orange County, Florida state court seeks "to help protect our customers and associates from further disruptive tactics associated with their continued, illegal trespassing," Walmart spokesman Dan Fogleman said.
Defendants, however, charged that the world's biggest retailer is trying to muzzle its critics.
"This is another attempt on Wal-Mart's behalf of ... silencing their employees and also the communities that support them," Denise Diaz, executive director of Central Florida Jobs With Justice Corp and a defendant named in the suit, said before reviewing the documents.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/us-walmart-trespass-lawsuit-idUSBRE92O0W820130325?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
Another frivolous corporate lawsuit
theaocp
(4,241 posts)sakabatou
(42,155 posts)Mopar151
(9,986 posts)Incensed that they cannot call Baldwin-Felts or The Pinkerton Agency to take care of this little problem.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)knows this is a "tactic" and not a real suit. I'm sure they said something about picketers stepping over their property line or some such to give the attorney his/her cover.
benld74
(9,904 posts)Nika
(546 posts)And this should be merely the start of the campaign locally to organize the workers.
midnight
(26,624 posts)I poste a duplicate of this and two additional links of walmart salaries that I would like to re-post here...
Walmart CEO Makes Average Workers Annual Salary Every Hour
http://jonathanturley.org/2010/07/03/walmart-ceo-makes-average-workers-annual-salary-every-hour/
The contrast is quite impressive there are a million workers at Wal-Mart who make under $10 an hour, the head of Wal-Mart makes over $11,000 an hour on an 8-hour day, not counting benefits.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-jackson-jr-raising-minimum-wage-20-would-far-surpass-what-it-was-designed
Omaha Steve
(99,659 posts)Keep posting the Wal-mart truths!
K&R!