WAL-MART WORKERS
HOLD HISTORIC ORGANIZING MEETING WITH CONGRESS:
Nearly 100 Walmart workers
from across the country met with Congressional leaders last Wednesday for a
national organizing meeting to brief Senators about wages, benefits and the
Employee
Free Choice Act. As part of their campaign for a union voice on the job, the
workers urged lawmakers to level the playing field for working people by
supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. “I made the trip into Washington DC
to stand with my fellow Walmart workers and to urge my Senators to pass the
Employee Free Choice Act,” said Texas Walmart worker Dominique Sloan, “We need
change in this country. All you have to do is look at how all the money goes
to CEOs. But when it comes to workers, it’s always the same; no health care or
health care that’s too expensive and low wages. We need to change that.” A
press release from the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) said “Despite
Walmart’s well-documented history of anti-working family activities, workers
say they are excited by the election of Barack Obama, excited that the
President says it’s not too much to ask Walmart to pay decent wages and
provide good health care, and excited that the Employee Free Choice Act can
help bring the change that helps workers and makes Walmart live up to its
responsibilities.” Walmart Workers for Change – a project of UFCW - is a new
campaign made up of thousands of Walmart workers joining together to form a
union and negotiate better benefits, higher wages, and more opportunity for a
better future.
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Free Choice Act. As part of their campaign for a union voice on the job, the
workers urged lawmakers to level the playing field for working people by
supporting the Employee Free Choice Act. “I made the trip into Washington DC
to stand with my fellow Walmart workers and to urge my Senators to pass the
Employee Free Choice Act,” said Texas Walmart worker Dominique Sloan, “We need
change in this country. All you have to do is look at how all the money goes
to CEOs. But when it comes to workers, it’s always the same; no health care or
health care that’s too expensive and low wages. We need to change that.” A
press release from the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) said “Despite
Walmart’s well-documented history of anti-working family activities, workers
say they are excited by the election of Barack Obama, excited that the
President says it’s not too much to ask Walmart to pay decent wages and
provide good health care, and excited that the Employee Free Choice Act can
help bring the change that helps workers and makes Walmart live up to its
responsibilities.” Walmart Workers for Change – a project of UFCW - is a new
campaign made up of thousands of Walmart workers joining together to form a
union and negotiate better benefits, higher wages, and more opportunity for a
better future.