Walmart Workers: Workload, Retaliation Increase in Illinois Warehouse as Black Friday Looms
Truth-out
Yana Kunichoff
With only three more days to go until Walmart workers around the country are expected to walk off the job on Black Friday, employees at one Walmart warehouse in Illinois say they are seeing more work and continued retaliation against organizers.
Four people from Elwood, Illinois were fired Monday following a weekend action aimed at one of the subcontractors that runs one of Walmart’s Elwood warehouses.
A delegation of community groups, along with warehouse workers, presented a petition to Schneider Logistics, the company that runs the warehouse, on Saturday.
The petition called for an end to wage theft, discrimination and illegal retaliation – all issues that initially led some Elwood workers to stage a 21-day walkout on September 15th.