Black Friday is key test for Walmart protesters [1]

By: Ned Resnikoff, 11/25/2013

Last year, when Walmart workers around the country staged a nationwide strike on the biggest shopping day of the year, the bar for success was relatively low. By throwing the world’s largest employer on the defensive and sending a message, organized labor was able to claim a tactical victory.

 

This Friday, expectations are higher. The workers and their allies need to show that they came out of the past year stronger than before. And that could be hard to achieve. Organizers insist the campaign will deliver. On a conference call last week, OUR (Organization United for Respect) Walmart told reporters to expect as many as 1,500 individual Black Friday protests across the country, a significant step up from last year’s estimated 1,200 events across 400 different stores.

 

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