This week in major cities, many Wal-Mart employees took their protest to the streets and parking lots to voice their concern over the little wage and workers compensation they have currently been receiving. Some of the major cities where these Wal-Mart protests took place were in Miami, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles just to name a few.
[CNN Money Excerpt]
–“Brown-Elliott, 48, who works at a Cincinnati Wal-Mart, said 25 workers were in the picketing line. The grandmother of 14 said she would travel with the group to a later protest in Cincinnati, where she a larger crowd was expected to gather.
A cake decorator in the Wal-Mart bakery, Brown-Elliott makes $8.95 an hour. She has been with Wal-Mart for two years and believes she’s overworked and underpaid.
Brown-Elliott, who lives alone, said she brings home about $1,200 a month, but $500 goes to rent and the rest isn’t enough to live decently. While she gets some help from her children with groceries, she still needs to visit food banks.
She said she had alerted Wal-Mart she would be striking through a letter supplied by the union.
The job actions are timed in conjunction with Wal-Mart (WMT)’s annual shareholder meeting, which takes place Friday in Fayetteville, Ark., near the company’s Bentonville headquarters.
When asked about Wednesday’s strikes, a Wal-Mart spokesman said ,”What we are seeing are very few, if any, people who work for Wal-Mart participating in the activities. The union has to bus people around to different protests.”–
Clearly the recent actions of protest were most likely a chain reaction stemming from the McDonald’s wage protest. Do you think these protest will have any positive affect on employees’ wages. As aforementioned above, very few workers are even participating in these protest which is not a good sign if one is trying to leverage “worker power”.
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