Friday, January 21, 2011

Past protests


How do you protest against the #1 retailer in the world? Well, I know that in the past, the most effective way was to get the employees to stop working. There was a case of this on October 16, 2006. Wal-Mart had begun a new policy that cut full-time hours and began pay-caps, which compelled workers to work at any time. All 200 of the workers at that Wal-Mart stopped working and walked out in protest against the policies. They chanted, “We want justice,” and criticized the policies as inhuman. In the end, Wal-Mart decided to give the employees justice, and cancel that policy. If those workers were successful, than I think it can happen again. My plan is to try to recreate that scene, and convince the Wal-Mart workers to join the fight against Wal-Mart.

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