Wal-Mart Retail Workers Hit the Bricks
Wal-Mart workers at 28 stores across 12 states have launched the first retail worker strike in the company’s 50-year history, protesting against the chain’s attempts to "silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job."
Wal-Mart workers at 28 stores across 12 states have launched the first retail worker strike in the company’s 50-year history, protesting against the chain’s attempts to “silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job.”
Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the country. Its employees are not unionized. “Democracy Now!” joins strikers in Bentonville, Ark., to learn about working conditions from Mike Compton, a Wal-Mart warehouse employee who is protesting outside the company’s headquarters.
Josh Eidelson, a writer for Salon who broke the story of the strikes last week, also comments.
— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
“Democracy Now!”:
Rock Solid JournalismIn 2026, amid chaos and the nonstop flurry of headlines, Truthdig remains independent, fact-based and focused on exposing what power tries to hide.
Support Independent Journalism.
Film
“Steal This Story, Please!” documents “Democracy Now’s!” three decades of broadcasting unembedded truth to power.
Media
Remembering TV’s most progressive daytime host, fired for giving airtime to Iraq War opponents.
Column
70 years after the CIA-assisted overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Trump's coup attempt is making its way through the courts.
Social Justice
It is past time we recognize and reject racist abuses of technology.
"People with low or moderate incomes do not get the same medical attention as those with high incomes." President Harry Truman in 1945.
Thunberg walks the walk; her work as an activist is just beginning.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.