A PROTEST against poverty pay at anti-union US retailer Walmart ended with 23 arrests, the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department confirmed today.
Workers organised in Organisation United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), a group founded by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, launched a sit-down strike on Thursday in the city’s Crenshaw Boulevard supermarket.
Striking workers chanted: “Stand up, live better! Sit down, live better!” before taping over their mouths to symbolise the way the company tries to silence trade unionists.
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
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