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Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
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McGruff - The Crime Dog!
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Date: October 13, 2012 02:47PM
Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Members of Making Change at Walmart handed out flyers at the Kingstowne Walmart and talked to employees and customers about the recent retail workers' strike.
http://kingstowne.patch.com/articles/community-leaders-speak-out-at-kingstowne-walmart#photo-11674140
Wednesday afternoon, a group of community leaders supported the ongoing Walmart workers’ strike by passing out leaflets to customers and employees at the Walmart at 5885 Kingstowne Blvd.
Beth Pointer, an organizer for Making Change at Walmart, led a small group who entered the Kingstowne store to raise awareness of the retaliation some Walmart associates say they have received for speaking out about better wages and benefits.
“We’ve done this at eight stores today,” Pointer said. “This is happening at about 250 stores and there are just as many workers who have walked off their jobs.”
Although a dozen cities have been affected by the first-ever retail workers’ strike from Walmart, Northern Virginia area stores have yet to have associates walk off the job.
Members of the group, including Pointer and Mike Wilson of D.C Jobs with Justice, a supporter of Respect D.C., passed out leaflets both inside and outside the store. Store managers and associates asked them to leave several times and a Walmart associate stood at the main door taking the flyers away from employees and customers as they entered.
The group moved on when an officer from Fairfax County Police Department asked them to leave.
Hard Work for $9.20 an Hour
An associate with the Kingstowne Walmart, who asked for his name to be withheld out of fear of losing his job, said he and his coworkers in the truck and loading department work really hard for $9.20 an hour.
“They expect much more out of us. They’re paying us $9.20 an hour and anywhere in the country, that type of manual labor — which is approximately the equivalent of doing ten gym workouts a day — is worth $15 an hour, union or non-union,” he said. “So we’re really underpaid.”
The associate said they can’t speak about their grievances to management. "Nobody speaks to management about money because that’s a dead end.”
The associate also said he doesn’t think the strikes that are happening in different cities will help the current situation.
“Walmart has an infinite supply of people that need work,” he said. “Our country as a whole has a very high unemployment rate. They get a lot of people every day that need to work, and I’m sure the way they look at it is, ‘Feel lucky that you have a job at all. And if you don’t want your job, we can find somebody to fill it tomorrow.’”
Although reportedly no Walmart associates in Northern Virginia have walked off their jobs, workers in Laurel, MD, started striking Tuesday. Barbara Elliott and a few of her coworkers walked off their jobs at Walmart store #1985 on 3549 Russett Green East.
“We’re just speaking out for retaliation [for standing up for our rights] and health insurance we receive,” said Elliott. “We’re also speaking out about the hours that have been taken from us and the respect we need.”
Elliott said she and her coworkers need to have their questions answered and need living wages.
“We need to be able to afford to live, and take our families on trips and to be able to pay our rent and buy groceries without having to go to get food stamps or Medicaid to help us,” she said.
Black Friday Deadline for Action
The associates are giving Walmart until Black Friday to meet their demands, including an opportunity to discuss their concerns with management and the end of alleged retaliations for speaking out.
But David Tovar, the retailer's vice president of communications, told The Huffington Post Monday the unhappy strikers "aren't representative of our entire associate base." He also said Walmart has an "open door" policy and has a history of listening to the concerns of its associates.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Walmart associates took their concerns directly to CEO Mike Duke at Walmart’s global corporate headquarters in Bentonville, AR.
During an 11:30 a.m. teleconference on Wednesday, striking Walmart workers from Los Angeles and Dallas discussed their demands and plans.
Evelin Cruz, an associate for Walmart in Southern California, was one of the 70 Walmart employees who started the initial strike.
“The reason I became a part of OUR Walmart because I heard a lot of my associates thatt I work with are having their hours cut. I’ve had my staff cut in half, and it is overwhelming to serve the customers and try to get their jobs done as Walmart associates,” Cruz said.
As a result, strike organizers hope Walmart executives will be more open-minded about improving the associates’ wages and healthcare in the future.
“We will continue to come back if our demands aren’t met. We will be taking more action. It doesn’t stop here,” Harris said. “We don’t want to keep protesting and striking. It’s hard to go on strike and lose money, but at the same time it’s a small price to pay when you want to make change.”
Beth Pointer continues to pass out flyers as a Walmart associate calls the police.Credit Raytevia Evans
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Members of Making Change at Walmart handed out flyers at the Kingstowne Walmart and talked to employees and customers about the recent retail workers' strike.
http://kingstowne.patch.com/articles/community-leaders-speak-out-at-kingstowne-walmart#photo-11674140
Wednesday afternoon, a group of community leaders supported the ongoing Walmart workers’ strike by passing out leaflets to customers and employees at the Walmart at 5885 Kingstowne Blvd.
Beth Pointer, an organizer for Making Change at Walmart, led a small group who entered the Kingstowne store to raise awareness of the retaliation some Walmart associates say they have received for speaking out about better wages and benefits.
“We’ve done this at eight stores today,” Pointer said. “This is happening at about 250 stores and there are just as many workers who have walked off their jobs.”
Although a dozen cities have been affected by the first-ever retail workers’ strike from Walmart, Northern Virginia area stores have yet to have associates walk off the job.
Members of the group, including Pointer and Mike Wilson of D.C Jobs with Justice, a supporter of Respect D.C., passed out leaflets both inside and outside the store. Store managers and associates asked them to leave several times and a Walmart associate stood at the main door taking the flyers away from employees and customers as they entered.
The group moved on when an officer from Fairfax County Police Department asked them to leave.
Hard Work for $9.20 an Hour
An associate with the Kingstowne Walmart, who asked for his name to be withheld out of fear of losing his job, said he and his coworkers in the truck and loading department work really hard for $9.20 an hour.
“They expect much more out of us. They’re paying us $9.20 an hour and anywhere in the country, that type of manual labor — which is approximately the equivalent of doing ten gym workouts a day — is worth $15 an hour, union or non-union,” he said. “So we’re really underpaid.”
The associate said they can’t speak about their grievances to management. "Nobody speaks to management about money because that’s a dead end.”
The associate also said he doesn’t think the strikes that are happening in different cities will help the current situation.
“Walmart has an infinite supply of people that need work,” he said. “Our country as a whole has a very high unemployment rate. They get a lot of people every day that need to work, and I’m sure the way they look at it is, ‘Feel lucky that you have a job at all. And if you don’t want your job, we can find somebody to fill it tomorrow.’”
Although reportedly no Walmart associates in Northern Virginia have walked off their jobs, workers in Laurel, MD, started striking Tuesday. Barbara Elliott and a few of her coworkers walked off their jobs at Walmart store #1985 on 3549 Russett Green East.
“We’re just speaking out for retaliation [for standing up for our rights] and health insurance we receive,” said Elliott. “We’re also speaking out about the hours that have been taken from us and the respect we need.”
Elliott said she and her coworkers need to have their questions answered and need living wages.
“We need to be able to afford to live, and take our families on trips and to be able to pay our rent and buy groceries without having to go to get food stamps or Medicaid to help us,” she said.
Black Friday Deadline for Action
The associates are giving Walmart until Black Friday to meet their demands, including an opportunity to discuss their concerns with management and the end of alleged retaliations for speaking out.
But David Tovar, the retailer's vice president of communications, told The Huffington Post Monday the unhappy strikers "aren't representative of our entire associate base." He also said Walmart has an "open door" policy and has a history of listening to the concerns of its associates.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Walmart associates took their concerns directly to CEO Mike Duke at Walmart’s global corporate headquarters in Bentonville, AR.
During an 11:30 a.m. teleconference on Wednesday, striking Walmart workers from Los Angeles and Dallas discussed their demands and plans.
Evelin Cruz, an associate for Walmart in Southern California, was one of the 70 Walmart employees who started the initial strike.
“The reason I became a part of OUR Walmart because I heard a lot of my associates thatt I work with are having their hours cut. I’ve had my staff cut in half, and it is overwhelming to serve the customers and try to get their jobs done as Walmart associates,” Cruz said.
As a result, strike organizers hope Walmart executives will be more open-minded about improving the associates’ wages and healthcare in the future.
“We will continue to come back if our demands aren’t met. We will be taking more action. It doesn’t stop here,” Harris said. “We don’t want to keep protesting and striking. It’s hard to go on strike and lose money, but at the same time it’s a small price to pay when you want to make change.”
Beth Pointer continues to pass out flyers as a Walmart associate calls the police.Credit Raytevia Evans
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geez...............a strike at Walmart - I wonder how that's gonna turn out?
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Gordon Blvd
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Date: October 13, 2012 03:05PM
what's really sad is that the new workers arent going to get HALF as many rights as these (soon to be) fired strikers are have :(
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
Bill Hayes
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Date: October 13, 2012 03:20PM
Walmart stock trading very high. Paying 2.5% dividend.
Re: geez...............a strike at Walmart - I wonder how that's gonna turn out?
Posted by:
George Meany
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Date: October 13, 2012 03:21PM
Making Change at Walmart has ties to the Soros funded SEIU. Fucking Communists they are. Fucking unemployed Communists they are soon to be.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
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Not Walmart Shopper
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Date: October 13, 2012 04:00PM
Shame that those Walmart strikers are forced to work there, and don't have the option of quitting and finding better paying jobs. Of course, better paying jobs might require an education or willingness to work. Two things that repel self-entitled, lazy libs.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
Ali Hadji Sheik
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Date: October 13, 2012 07:26PM
Lesson to be learned, stay in school or this could be you.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
BillG
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Date: October 13, 2012 08:18PM
Damn, I'd like a 50% + pay raise too. The reality is for $9.20 an hour these people are getting paid exactly what their worth eiher that or someones a real dumbass for not taking the $15 an hour job requiring the sames skills and amount of work. Oh wait the $15 dollar an hour job for unloading trucks and stocking shelves isn't available. Why? Because plenty of people are willing to do it for $9.20 an hour....
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
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sad times
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Date: October 13, 2012 08:33PM
Have you been in the Kingstowne store. What a train wreck. No one is in charge, angry cashiers, smelly rude customers, kids riding display bikes in the store, unpacked merchandise blocking the aisles, carts blocking the parking lot, screaming babies being spanked by white trash moms and so on.
Its strange as the neighborhood isnt ghetto, some nice homes around it.
Its strange as the neighborhood isnt ghetto, some nice homes around it.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
ROCKO MEATS
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Date: October 15, 2012 01:17PM
PEOPLE it's Walmart!!!
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
Preach it
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Date: October 15, 2012 01:34PM
Not Walmart Shopper Wrote:
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> Shame that those Walmart strikers are forced to
> work there, and don't have the option of quitting
> and finding better paying jobs. Of course, better
> paying jobs might require an education or
> willingness to work. Two things that repel
> self-entitled, lazy libs.
+1
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> Shame that those Walmart strikers are forced to
> work there, and don't have the option of quitting
> and finding better paying jobs. Of course, better
> paying jobs might require an education or
> willingness to work. Two things that repel
> self-entitled, lazy libs.
+1
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
Dodecagon
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Date: October 15, 2012 01:51PM
Bill Hayes Wrote:
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> Walmart stock trading very high. Paying 2.5%
> dividend.
Paying high dividends because they don't have enormous pension and health care obligations. The (newly) fired workers will get the last laugh when their food stamps and welfare check rolls in- all the pork rinds and lottery tickets $250/week will buy!
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> Walmart stock trading very high. Paying 2.5%
> dividend.
Paying high dividends because they don't have enormous pension and health care obligations. The (newly) fired workers will get the last laugh when their food stamps and welfare check rolls in- all the pork rinds and lottery tickets $250/week will buy!
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
BEH
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Date: October 15, 2012 02:26PM
Who's the black lady with the huge, uneven jugs?
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
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Who knows
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Date: October 15, 2012 04:10PM
BEH Wrote:
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> Who's the black lady with the huge, uneven jugs?
Instigator imported from somewhere else to get publicity for the three participants in this circus. Maybe she has a recording device just in case the manager does something she can exploit.
And what's that in his hand? Looks more like a radio for in-store communications than a cell phone for calling the police.
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> Who's the black lady with the huge, uneven jugs?
Instigator imported from somewhere else to get publicity for the three participants in this circus. Maybe she has a recording device just in case the manager does something she can exploit.
And what's that in his hand? Looks more like a radio for in-store communications than a cell phone for calling the police.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
R_in_FFX
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Date: October 15, 2012 04:18PM
BEH Wrote:
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> Who's the black lady with the huge, uneven jugs?
I want to take a moment and thank you for reminding us what this thread should really be about.
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> Who's the black lady with the huge, uneven jugs?
I want to take a moment and thank you for reminding us what this thread should really be about.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
commie leaning
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Date: October 15, 2012 04:39PM
Walmart will sweep them aside with little to no effort. They didnt crush KMart and other discount stores by playing nice. Wouldnt be surprised if Obama backers were behind this rabble rousing.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
Longstreet.
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Date: October 15, 2012 05:51PM
Negro lady with out of sync jugs if a male would have been called a "labor union bohunk."
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
Mr. Lothrop
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Date: October 15, 2012 06:06PM
didn't Walmart do away with the stock option plan for employees a few years ago
and Walmart got rid of the door greeters. jobs for old folks to help them get by. as a cost cutting measure
what would Sam think of that one
and Walmart got rid of the door greeters. jobs for old folks to help them get by. as a cost cutting measure
what would Sam think of that one
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
RUKiddingMeh?
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Date: October 15, 2012 06:19PM
Longstreet. Wrote:
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> Negro lady with out of sync jugs if a male would
> have been called a "labor union bohunk."
Don't lie, even you republican guys would want some half and half out of those udders. She looks like she has some ashy elbows and knees but thats probably the only bad thing, I guarantee you she does work in the sack, trust me, I can tell just by looking. She looks like the take control type. The rare type where you just lay back and do no work, the way the good Lord meant it to be.
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> Negro lady with out of sync jugs if a male would
> have been called a "labor union bohunk."
Don't lie, even you republican guys would want some half and half out of those udders. She looks like she has some ashy elbows and knees but thats probably the only bad thing, I guarantee you she does work in the sack, trust me, I can tell just by looking. She looks like the take control type. The rare type where you just lay back and do no work, the way the good Lord meant it to be.
Re: Walmart Strike Supporters Speak Out at Kingstowne Store
Posted by:
519
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Date: October 16, 2012 01:09PM
They should be happy they have a job,because I know plently of out of work people who would be grateful for $9.20 an hour.