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There. you think that you re going to be able to stay there in the wake of this? as long as i keep fighting and as long as i m the model employee, yes, i still have a job. mr. greenwald, this is just the latest example of illegal retaliation by walmart. what s it going to take for these workers, or should i say walmart to start listening to the workers and the workers to be effective when it comes to fairness in the employment arena? what do you make of it? well, i think the work that our walmart is doing and the workers who are courageous in standing up, and as we just heard, having their hours cut, people fired, but it is now official. it is illegal intimidation. walmart is once again breaking the law. many laws that they ve broken over the years, from environmental laws, to driving small businesses out of business, to taking overtime away from workers. ....
The power goes to their head. what do you think will result of this? do you think there s a chance that our walmart will push this company to do more for workers? yes, we will. when more workers stand up and say, this is wrong, this is wrong, it s wrong for me. it s going to be wrong for my grandchildren and every else s grandchildren. if it s this bad now, how bad is it going to get ten years from now? mr. greenwald, you did this in 2005. did you know this kind of stuff was going on when comments were being made about shooting the union? yes. when we did the film and we investigated, we found out that walmart was hiring law firms, were putting up videos, intimidating their workers against talking to unions, threatening them, as martha said, creating a culture of fear. this is systemic. ....
Against happening. but look, these workers are strong. like martha, they re fearless, they re tough, they re speaking up, they re losing their jobs, they re having their hours cut. but they won t be silenced. a thousand protests, that s a big, big deal. martha, don t you feel that this is the time to protest now that you ve got a legal ruling to your side? absolutely. we need to do something large to follow this up with. well, this should set the stage for some more protests and some more people stepping up against walmart and sticking up for the workers. this is a big ruling, let s see where it all goes. it s going to be appealed of course by the company. great to have both of you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. we will follow the story. i will not be here tomorrow night. it s going to be michael eric dyson. we have a big weekend coming up in our family. kelsey and our son dave will be married on saturday. and tomorrow night we have the ....
Documentary walmart: the high cost of low price. and also with us tonight, martha cellars, a walmart employee and member of our walmart. martha, you first. what does this ruling mean to the workers of walmart, that something has been done, a declaration has been made that has come down on the side of the workers. what do you make of it? it s a victory. it validates what we do is legal and protected by law. so we can all stand together and make walmart a great place to work, a great place for the economy. i m thrilled. were you subject to any intimidation, did you have any friends that went through hell? i had a lot of friends go through hell. personally, i ve just had my hours cut. but that s enough. i ve had three terminated from my store. i don t know how i m still ....
And 60s, when the civil rights movement, similarly heard this argument that it wasn t local people, it wasn t the people of birmingham, it wasn t the people of you know of montgomery who were agitating but outside agitators, union people sometimes, who were coming in and telling them what their interests were. and i mean i got to say, it seems hard to imagine that workers don t notice that wages at this level create for them a circumstance where they then have to rely on benefits. so why would it take an outside agitator to explain this? two things here. first off in terms of who participates in these things there s risk. for him to say that is like saying first we re going to break your leg, then laugh at you because you can t dance. they terrorize workers, they fired people who did participate in protest, then they are going to challenge how many people are actually outside. second point. walmart is the welfare queen of the 20th century. ....