Laid-Off Walmart Workers Head to Labor Board
Source: NY Times
By HIROKO TABUCHI
A group representing Walmart workers laid off after the abrupt closing of five stores last week planned to seek an injunction on Monday from the National Labor Relations Board that would require the retailer to rehire all 2,200 affected workers.
Walmart said that the closings were temporary and were prompted by plumbing issues at the five stores, in California, Texas, Oklahoma and Florida. Officials at the retailer said they would do their best to rehire the workers at other stores or at the five stores once they reopened.
But a claim set to be filed on Monday by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union with the National Labor Relations Board says that the closings were in retaliation for a history of labor activism at one of the shuttered stores, in Pico Rivera, Calif. The union is acting on behalf of Our Walmart, a group that has helped the stores workers air their claims, but is not a union itself.
The Pico Rivera store was the site of the first strike at a Walmart store in the United States, in 2012, organized by a workers group backed by the union. The strike was over pay and working conditions for the retailers hourly wage workers. Since then, store employees have led actions demanding changes to Walmarts hours and pregnancy policies, access to full-time, consistent work and at least $15 an hour in pay for workers at the retailers 4,500 stores across the country.
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marym625
(17,997 posts)So very sick of the American workers being shit on by the corpocracy
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)cstanleytech
(26,298 posts)After all by firing all of them the full timers will lose all their accrued benefits like vacation and sick leave and if they do get rehired by Walmart the odds of them getting full time is slim because Walmart rarely promotes people from part time to fulltime these days as their company moto is to fuck their employees over as much as possible if it will earn more profit.
ibewlu606
(160 posts)I applaud the bravery of these workers. When Hillary Clinton sat on the Walmart Board of Directors, she didn't do anything to help those employees, but now she is all about "everyday Americans".
closeupready
(29,503 posts)'former member of Walmart's BoD'. !
KansDem
(28,498 posts)They really want us to believe that? Yeah...right...sure...uh-huh...
Is that the best they can do?
durablend
(7,460 posts)Around 40% of the country consists of brain-dead idiots.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)circulating about these stores. FEMA DETENTION CAMPS!!!