Workers for Walmart
and other service oriented places of work have had enough of being manipulated and
cheated so these corporations can make money. They have been fighting back and
the following is an example of that. Losing a person’s job for standing up to
big business seems to be the most common actions by corporations today.
-សតិវ អតុ
From Making Change at Walmart;
Carlton Smith worked at Walmart in Los
Angeles for nearly 20 years. The company fired him shortly before his planned
retirement for being an outspoken member of OUR Walmart and standing up for his
coworkers' right to speak out.
The sacrifice made by Carlton and his
coworkers is paying off.
Just last week, Walmart announced it would
allow more workers to work full-time. A couple of weeks before California
passed a bill to raise the minimum wage.
A prominent reporter, Harold Meyerson
credited Walmart and fast food strikers with the hike in minimum wage, calling
it the "first real victory of the fast-food and Walmart workers who have
been staging job actions across the country over the past six months demanding
higher wages."
"I'm disappointed and hurt that a
company I poured all my energy into for 18 years would illegally fire me for
exercising my rights as an American," Carlton says. "But now I know
my sacrifice was worth it. We're changing this company and this country."
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