International Walmart workers and fired warehouse workers joined striking employees in demonstration.
from The Nation
"Competing chants pierced the air, and punctuated one another, as a Walmart pep rally and a union-backed protest took place some fifty feet apart this afternoon.
"On a public sidewalk across from Walmart’s 'home office' headquarters, international Walmart workers and fired warehouse workers joined striking employees in a demonstration calling for Walmart to avert future deaths in its international supply chain. On the other side of a narrow parking lot, a few of the blue-shirted Walmart employees brought to Bentonville by Walmart management began snapping cell phone photos of their striking co-workers, who sang, 'Which side are you on Walmart…Are you on the side of safety or on the side of murder?' Then a series of well-dressed Walmart staff began leading the blue-shirted employees in the company’s classic cheer spelling out its name: 'Give me a W!' 'W!' 'Give me an A!' 'A!'…'What’s that spell?' 'Walmart!'
"As successive busses drove up to drop off more company-invited Walmart workers under the Home Office awning, managers led the blue-shirted workers in cheering for their arriving co-workers and chanting the letters of the company’s name. The protesters across the lot from them kept up their slow-paced song, sometimes punctuated with 'Whose Walmart? OUR Walmart!' and 'Stand Up! Live Better!' Some hoisted flags and signs identifying their home countries, and giant cut-outs spelling out '1,239 KILLED,' the combined death toll from a building collapse and a fire in buildings where Walmart apparel has been produced. …"
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