Walmart workers are planning a 1,600 store Black Friday
protest on November 28th
Walmart earns 16 billion dollars a year in profits on the
backs of its workers and continues to deny its workers affordable pay, benefits,
working conditions and enough hours of work. In response, the workers at
Walmart have staged large protests at Walmart locations around the United
States every year. This year these protests are much larger and better
organized. The protesters are rightly striking the Walmart Corporation on its
most profitable day of the year: Black Friday!
This year 1,600 stores are expected to join the protest.
Every day more and more workers are joining in the call from Los Angeles to all
other metropolitan cities. Employees from 2,100 stores from across the United
States have also signed the online petition that demands for better wages,
hours, pay, benefits and working conditions.
This is the third time that Walmart workers are going on
strike and protesting on Black Friday. This time the workers are getting their
message across with the help of thousands of community members, in addition to
the new stores that have joined their protests.
The Walmart Corporation has been retaliating against the
workers that organize and take part in the protests by firing them. Further,
Walmart Corporation is compensating for the loss of potential profits by
keeping stores open a day beforehand: Thanksgiving. Almost one million workers will be requested
to stay on a national holiday to keep the stores open all day.
All corporations should be afraid of the gaining momentum of
the workers. They should be fearful of their level of organization and the
spread of protests as their message gets passed on across the country. The
service industry as a whole is now being pressured by the workers. Service
industry workers, including Walmart workers, have all come together now to
demand a $15 minimum wage.
The Corporate run US has been pushed to the ropes by service
sector demands. If the state governments bend to the workers’ will, it will give
the workers a massive incentive to maintain their movement, which may then spill
over to all other sectors of the economy, taking salami slices of other
corporations’ profits. However the republicans, as well as the democrats in government,
don’t have a choice in the matter. Both parties have dug their own graves with their
hands in the cookie jar of continued austerity measures, bank bonuses,
foreclosures, pension cuts, social service cuts and wage freezes. The service
sector workers with their rock bottom wages, no health insurance, ridiculously expensive
higher education, late retirement and low pensions, are in a desperate fight
with nothing to lose. This fight, this large scale class struggle, now a
massive sea of alienated and heavily exploited working people, is sending waves
upon waves of protests towards the walls of corporate US until they win! The large
scale war against corporate US has just begun to take on a different momentum
and has shifted to higher gear!
Chia Barsen
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