{"id":37606,"date":"2013-09-04T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37606"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:57:49","slug":"walmart-workers-stage-largest-protest-since-last-years-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/04\/walmart-workers-stage-largest-protest-since-last-years-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Workers Stage Largest Protest Since Last Year&#8217;s Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130904Walmart\/2013_09_04_walmart.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130904Walmart\/2013_09_04_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/walmart_protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In a bold move designed to send a message to the nation&#8217;s largest private employer, Walmart employees are staging another protest tomorrow to protest the company\u2019s unfair labor practices.*<\/p>\n<p>The group, OUR Walmart has organized Walmart Associates in fifteen different cities, including here in Los Angeles, to protest illegal firings of Walmart employees who participated in a strike in June and also to demand better wages. Thursday&#8217;s walkout will be the largest strike since the Black Friday protests last November. OUR Walmart has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board about the illegal firing of dozens workers who participated in the June strike. <\/p>\n<p>The Walmart Corporation is one of the most profitable companies in the world whose profits topped $4 billion dollars while a large portion of its workers survive off public assistance. Workers are calling for a minimum annual salary of $25,000 a year. <\/p>\n<p>Walmart workers are also hoping that Washington DC Mayor Vince Gray will sign a bill which would require large retailers in DC to pay $12.50 an hour. Walmart walkouts are gaining strength throughout the country as more and more workers join the picket lines.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Carlton Smith, former Walmart worker who was fired last year for organizing his fellow workers, Richard Reynoso, stocker at Walmart, who is currently on medical leave<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>* On the program today, we used the terms &#8220;strike&#8221; and &#8220;walkout&#8221; to describe Thursday&#8217;s protest. In fact, Walmart workers are protesting rather than walking off the job. Uprising regrets the error. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move designed to send a message to the nation&#8217;s largest private employer, Walmart employees are staging another protest tomorrow to protest the company\u2019s unfair labor practices.* The group, OUR Walmart has organized Walmart Associates in fifteen different cities, including here in Los Angeles, to protest illegal firings of Walmart employees who participated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37613,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37606\/revisions\/37613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}