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A former Wal-mart employee describing how she was fired after having to use extended sick leave for a major illness. Walmart then fought to prevent her from claiming unemployment at the scarely living amount of $119/week. Wal-mart may have the lowest prices, but they come at a cost-- Your low price means someone else's low wage and lack of benefits. |
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SEIU Local 250 President Sal Roselli attending the Day of Action. His "Health Care Now" sign focuses on one of Wal-mart's shortcomings...Affortable health benefits aren't offered to employees. When a large employer doesn't take advantage of its ability to provide group health insurance, who pays the medical costs when employees get sick? Well, actually, it's you, in your role as taxpayer. Uninsured people come to hospital Emergency rooms to get care, or they use public health care agencies. Either way, the taxpayer picks up the tab for healthcare that Wal-mart (the largest corporation in the U.S.) won't provide. |
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| The view from Florin Road--- Demonstrators from an impressive number of Unions waved signs and handed out flyers in an effort to inform passers-by of the failures of Wal-mart. These persons all have Union wages and benefits, and they actively support employees at Wal-mart being able to get them, too. |
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| Passer-by response was almost unanimously positive--People all seem to understand the issue here. . As was pointed out by one of the speakers earlier, many of Wal-mart's products are made in foreign sweatshops. How can workers making a living wage compete with that? When we buy products made in sweatshops, we risk having sweatshops become the global standard. |
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| The view of Wal-mart enhanced by anti-Walmart demonstrators on Florin Road. |