barbara that their black friday protest was not a federally protected action. that means that every worker who participated in the protest is in serious danger of losing their jobs. they believe what we did isn t right. the group has called an emergency meeting and invited representatives to advise them. we were taken to the corn path, each and every one of us individual today. what happened? our managers took each one of us, three of us individual out to the corner where nobody else was. he brought his other co-manager, a big guy. they took me first. and what did he say? he read a sheet of paper that was saying that we were destructing walmart. they would not call it a strike. they called it a work stop.
on that day, walmart informed work workers including cindy and barbara that their black friday protest was not a federally protected action. that means that every worker who participated in the protest is in serious danger of losing their job. they believe what we did isn t right. an emergency meeting is called. we were taken to the corn patch, each and every one of us, individual today. and what happened? our managers took each one of us, three of us individual out to the corner where nobody else was. he brought his other co-manager, a big guy. they took me first. and what did he say? he read a sheet of paper that was saying that we were destructing walmart. their business by work stoppage.
they would not call it a strike, they called it a work stoppage, and what he considered a work stoppage was that we didn t come to work on october 9th and 10th and black friday. so he said under their guidelines if you miss three absences in six months they can terminate you. so if we participate in a work stoppage, they can take action against us. they said you weren t protected by federal law? yeah. he said they didn t consider that as federal protection. they said the same thing to you as well? okay. and i think you guys know a lot of this but you have a right to en engage in protected, concerted activity. and the strike actions that you took back in october and on black friday were protected strikes. you were protesting the retaliation that the people who spoke out were receiving. right. and that is absolutely protected activity. it s protected by the law, the federal law, the national labor
at the retail giant. they protested on black friday and in spite of what they say is tactics from their employer, they are standing their ground. if they pay for nothing of our health care. we should be allowed to call in when we re sick. we shouldn t be threatened if we can t come in. people need to understand that these are morality issues, to not respect unless there is living wage and all of that included to not give the associates you re saying that you re indispensable. at any moment, once they are done using you, they are going to get rid of you. how many employees are there? a million three. how many people are in the organization? thousands. is that why people are afraid of joining, out of 1.4 million, they could be gone like that? they can be replace grad they scare these people. they scare the hell out of them.
aggressive anti-union and they organize their co-workers say they have been ostracized, threatened, and even terminated for exercising their rights in the workplace. on black friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, workers at walmart were joined by members of the united food and commercial working union in a nationwide protest. if you want to draw attention to a retailer, there s no better time to do in. shoppers are having to walk through a bit of a protest. what you are seeing at this southern california walmart is a large group of workers as well as union members walking a picket line. this is a protest that s happening in the states of texas, maryland, georgia, wisconsin, trying to make the point to the company that they need to figure some of these issues out. i try to get a representative from walmart to go on camera and talk to the allegations against them but they refused. they said it s a very small number of employees that actually have grievances against