Sunday, July 31, 2005
Wal-Mart Action Planning Meeting on August 2nd
Just Cause reports that Wal-Mart is scheduled to open in East
Oakland around August 24th. Just Cause and the coalition fighting
Wal-Mart are making plans to let the public know
what impact Wal-Mart has on communities, and to make it known that they want Wal-Mart
to leave Oakland.
A planning meeting for anti-Walmart actions will be held on Tuesday, August 2nd from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in the Just Cause Oakland office at 1212 Broadway, Suite 400 in Oakland.
People have been protesting Wal Mart nationwide as well as locally. In February of 2004, members of Raging Grannies and the Women's International League For Peace And Freedom protested Wal Mart's unfair labor practices and anti-union management policies outside of a store in Mountain View. After workers at a Quebec Wal-Mart store formed a union, the company closed the store. Wal-Mart Watch held "Grill Wal-Mart Week,” a series of neighborhood barbeques that activists and supporters in 25 states have held during the week of July 23-30.
In 2003, Oakland's City Council had voted to limit the size of bix-box stores, which are discount retail stores with full-service supermarkets that exceed 100,000 square feet, or about 2.5 acres. However, this February, protests against Wal-Mart sprung up, as building trades workers protested an out-of-state contractor that used non-union labor in construction of the store.
Just Cause Oakland's Website | Wal-Mart Associates Complain About Employer | Wal*Mart Watch | Good Jobs First | Always Low Prices Blog | UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education report Hidden Costs of Wal-Mart Jobs | Wal-Mart Sucks | The Case Against Sprawl | UFCW Article: The Wal-Mart Threat | UFCW's Wake Up Wal-Mart Campaign
Oakland around August 24th. Just Cause and the coalition fighting
Wal-Mart are making plans to let the public know
what impact Wal-Mart has on communities, and to make it known that they want Wal-Mart
to leave Oakland.
A planning meeting for anti-Walmart actions will be held on Tuesday, August 2nd from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in the Just Cause Oakland office at 1212 Broadway, Suite 400 in Oakland.
People have been protesting Wal Mart nationwide as well as locally. In February of 2004, members of Raging Grannies and the Women's International League For Peace And Freedom protested Wal Mart's unfair labor practices and anti-union management policies outside of a store in Mountain View. After workers at a Quebec Wal-Mart store formed a union, the company closed the store. Wal-Mart Watch held "Grill Wal-Mart Week,” a series of neighborhood barbeques that activists and supporters in 25 states have held during the week of July 23-30.
In 2003, Oakland's City Council had voted to limit the size of bix-box stores, which are discount retail stores with full-service supermarkets that exceed 100,000 square feet, or about 2.5 acres. However, this February, protests against Wal-Mart sprung up, as building trades workers protested an out-of-state contractor that used non-union labor in construction of the store.
Just Cause Oakland's Website | Wal-Mart Associates Complain About Employer | Wal*Mart Watch | Good Jobs First | Always Low Prices Blog | UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education report Hidden Costs of Wal-Mart Jobs | Wal-Mart Sucks | The Case Against Sprawl | UFCW Article: The Wal-Mart Threat | UFCW's Wake Up Wal-Mart Campaign
