On Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the Organization for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart) and allied groups called attention to Walmart’s low wages and austere working conditions at the downtown Walmart in Washington, DC. It marked the fourth consecutive Black Friday activists organized against […]
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Organizers of a Black Friday protest against Walmart’s treatment of workers in the metropolitan Washington, DC area shifted their plans after a court injunction blocked them from setting foot on store property in Maryland. OUR Walmart, RESPECT DC, DC Jobs With Justice and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 […]
Just before Black Friday, Walmart has turned up the heat on the Maryland wing of the national campaign seeking to reform the world’s biggest employer. In spite of a court ruling threatening special penalties for trespassing at Maryland Walmart stores, organizers appear not to be backing down in their plans […]