Wal-Mart Workers Seek Millions More After Big Win, Wal-Mart To Appeal

[Omaha Steve]

http://208.185.252.177/laborradio/node/4418

Wal-Mart Workers Seek Millions More After Big Win, Wal-Mart To Appeal

By Doug Cunningham

Wal-Mart workers are going for another $68 million after winning $78.5 million from Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania Friday. A jury found that Wal-Mart violated labor laws by forcing workers to work off the clock for no pay and through breaks. Wal-Mart says it will appeal, but the workers are also going after the extra millions because the jury also found that Wal-Mart acted in bad faith. A California jury last year awarded workers $172 million for 116,000 workers who got cheated out of meal breaks by Wal-Mart.

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[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. K & R, very gratifying to see WM, the personification of slave labor, have

answer for its extremely unfair labor practices.

:applause: :kick: MKJ

[Broadslidin]

2. Going After This Vicious Corporate Predator is Priority One...!

"Is globalization about the eradication of world poverty
or is it a mutant variety of colonialism,
remote controlled and digitally operated?"

Arundhatti Roy

[Mr_Spock]

3. Ah-hah

I won't be seeing these poor workers as I don't go there, but it's not their fault they work for an ass-hole company.

[Drifter]

4. Sorry, but ...

Who the FUCK would work off the clock for any reason ?
Are these people FUCKING retarded ?

Cheers
Drifter

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Sometimes you have to.

In food service, there's always people who work before and after their shift, cleaning, organizing, prepping, etc. Most service industry jobs demand this level of commintment these days, sadly. And if their managers tell them to, what are they gonna say? "No?" And lose the job that allows them to survive?

Don't blame the workers for the sins of the employers.

[Nevernose]

7. I've worked off the clock before.

And never again. Okay, so I don't have a service industry job anymore, granted. But I'm sure as hell never going to work non-union again. And if, for whatever reason I was forced to, I would work to unionize. Not to mention change some of the anti-union laws.

As a society, though, that would take too much intellectual thought. Most of us just care about getting a bigger TV or what kind of retarded shit Paris Hilton did/said last week, or maybe getting high on something -- even most of the ones struggling to make rent and living one paycheck away from disaster.

I'm not bitter and angry, though. ;)

[joetripp]

6. Let 'em quit

People need to stand up for themselves and not take crap from the employer.

[mac56]

9. Let 'em quit?!

Clarify, please.

[Vidar]

8. Good for the Wal-Mart workers.