Walmart protests draw crowds but shoppers undeterred
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Protesters demanding higher wages and better healthcare for hourly workers thronged to Walmart stores across the country, though there was no evidence they disrupted operations for the start of the crucial holiday shopping season.www.chicagotribune.com
1000 Walmart protests across the US
500 workers and supporters marched on a Walmart in Landover, MD. Striking Chicago workers and their supporters marched on several Walmart stores in Illinois beginning at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning. Striking workers in Duarte, Calif. formed a picket lined ...www.salon.com
Early start to U.S. 'Black Friday' shopping frenzy
In Chicago, four busloads of protesters, including some Walmart workers, showed up at a store on the city's South Side for a 7 a.m.www.saultstar.com
Walmart Strikers Prepare For Black Friday Protests Across Country
Despite a notoriously unfriendly attitude toward unions, Dallas has become a main center for the strikes, along with Los Angeles and Chicago. Harris' store was one of the first to host protests back in October, when, for the first time in Walmart ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Wal-Mart: Only 50 employees protested; UFCW disputes
UFCW had hoped that protests and staff walk-outs on Black Friday would paralyze the retailer and draw media attention. It claimed to have events in 46 states including Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Washington DC. Dan Schlademan ...washingtonexaminer.com
Walmart workers plan pre-Black Friday protests
Organizers say a thousand store protests are planned in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Minnesota and dozens of other places.www.nydailynews.com
As Walmart workers plan Black Friday strikes, Valley shoppers line up early
Protests are reportedly planned at 13 Walmart stores across the country, in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.www.abc15.com
Walmart workers plan Black Friday protest
The workers, who are part of a union-backed employee coalition called Making Change at Walmart, say this is the beginning of a wave of protests and strikes leading up to Black Friday. A thousand store protests are planned in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, ...www.sfgate.com
Walmart Workers Walking Off the Job in Protest
Walmart workers are not unionized, but the UFCW wants to draw attention to holiday schedules, pay, and health benefits by organizing protests, rallies, and walkouts of Walmart employees during one of the busiest shopping days of the year. And Hesse ...www.kaaltv.com
Wal-Mart Holiday Protest Set to Proceed Amid NLRB Review
The strikes are the first of what the group said are 1,000 protests planned in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Minnesota and Washington ahead of "Black Friday" on Nov. 23, the day after the U.S.www.businessweek.com
Wal-Mart workers plan Black Friday protests but shoppers may ignore picket lines
Employees at 1,000 Wal-Mart stores are unhappy that the country's largest retailer is opening at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.www.globalpost.com
Wal-Mart Shoppers Seen Overrunning Black Friday Protesters
"Shoppers in the parking lot will say 'Oh, that's terrible -- OK, where do I get my discounted electronics,'" said Eigen, who is based in Chicago. "That's one of the big challenges for the labor movement. ... In recent months, the union has adopted a ...www.businessweek.com
Walmart Black Friday 2012: Workers Plan to Walk Out and Strike
This is all part of a union-backed employee coalition called Making Change at Wal-mart. According to the group Making Change at Walmart, "a thousand store protests are planned in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, ...z6mag.com
WalMart Walkout: Thousands of Employees to Protest Black Friday
... expected 1,000 protests, The Daily Mail reported. OUR Walmart, Corporate Action Network and Making Change at Wal-Mart are three groups in support of the protests and calling upon Walmart. Employees from cities like LA, Milwaukee, D.C, Chicago and ...www.travelerstoday.com
Walmart employees threaten to protest on Black Friday
Protests are reportedly planned in places like Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles but Phoenix has not been mentioned. One local Walmart worker told FOX 10 employees at his store aren't talking about walking off. He says he was given the worst Thanksgiving ...www.myfoxphoenix.com
NLRB unlikely to act on Wal-Mart pickets by Thanksgiving
(Reuters) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unlikely to make any decision before Thursday's Thanksgiving Holiday on Wal-Mart Stores Inc's push to stop protests and rallies outside its stores, the U.S. labor board said on Tuesday. The delay ...www.chicagotribune.com
Wal-Mart files legal complaint against growing protests ahead of Black Friday
Since that time, workers have since walked off the job in Dallas and Richmond, Calif., and other upcoming strikes and protests are expected at stores in Chicago, Miami, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.. Charlene Fletcher, who works with her husband, ...www.foxnews.com
Wal-Mart Black Friday protests: company files complaint
Employees belonging to two worker groups pressing for higher wages, lower healthcare premiums and better working conditions, OUR Wal-Mart and Making Change at Wal-Mart, have said they are planning to strike in stores in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, ...www.globalpost.com
Wal-Mart stores face closures over staff protests
... biggest shopping day in the US - the strikes, already seen at the company's distribution warehouses in Southern California and Seattle, are part of a wider campaign of 1,000 protests planned for stores in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Oklahoma ...www.irishexaminer.com
Wal-Mart files US labor charge against union
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is taking its first legal step to stop months of protests and rallies outside Walmart stores, targeting the union that it says is behind such actions. Wal-Mart filed an ... (Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago ...www.chicagotribune.com
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