OUR Walmart Campaign, with New Partners Readies To Turn Black Friday into a Red-Letter Day in its Fight for $15 and Full-Time Employment for Employees
Walmart workers, fortified with a growing number of allies in their reinvigorated OUR Walmart organization are readying to push the world s largest corporation to pay $15 an hour minimum and provide full-time employment hours for its workers. OUR Walmart, which has already won a wage increase for some 500,000 Walmart workers is on the move and along with its new allies, Demos, the Restaurant Opportunities Center, Color of Change, Domestic Workers Alliance and Jobs With Justice, among others is launching a mass campaign for a $15 an hour wage for all associates; consistent, full-time hours for its employees; to end unfair coachings and terminations; and for Walmart to address racial justice, women s rights and to address climate change. We are standing up against Walmart because we are fighting for $15/hour and 40 hours a week, said Wanda Banks, a Walmart worker from Louisiana. If I had $15 an hour & 40 hours/week I would be able to pay off a lot of my bills " I could sleep better at night without tossing & turning. I have a granddaughter that I need to get through college. So that would help me in a great and awesome way. We re standing up to Walmart to stop retaliating against workers that speak out, said Janet Sparks, a Walmart worker from Louisiana.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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