WALMART Employees RALLY Across US for LIVING Wage (VIDEO).
yaSalam - Pekerja & aktivis menggesa Walmart, peruncit yg terbesar di
DUNIA, untuk meningkatkan gaji dan amalan-amalan lain dengan menuduhnya
"membuli" orang-orang yang mahu keadaan kerja yang lebih baik. Ia
adalah tahun yang ke-3 bantahan itu telah berlaku pada hari Jumaat Hitam.
Pekerja turun ke jalan - pada hari membeli-belah yang paling
sibuk tahun - menun-tut kenaikan gaji kepada $ 15 per jam dan peluang untuk
bekerja sepenuh masa.
WALMART Employees RALLY Across US for LIVING
Wage (VIDEO) . .
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Employees and activists are calling on Walmart, the world’s
largest retailer, to improve wages and other practices, accusing it of
“bullying” those who want better work conditions. It is the third year that
such protests have taken place on Black Friday.
Workers took to the streets – on the busiest shopping day of
the year – demanding a pay increase to $15 per hour and the opportunity to work
full-time.
Pekerja Wal-Mart yang dengki hari ini. Apa yang anda akan
lakukan? (Wal-Mart workers are revolting today. What will you do)? #buynothingday #WalmartStrikers
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30219447 …
8:19 PM - 28
Nov 2014
Beberapa demonstrasi yang terbesar sekali di luar kedai
Walmart di Chicago dan Washington, DC, dan juga pelbagai bandar-bandar di
seluruh California, Texas, New Jersey, & negeri Washington. Walaupun
penganjur tlh merancang protes kesatuan yg disokong utk beberapa 1,600
kedai2, ia tidak jelas berapa ramai sebenarnya telah berlaku.
Some of the biggest demonstrations took place outside Walmart
stores in Chicago and Washington, DC, as well as various cities throughout
California, Texas, New Jersey, and Washington state. Though organizers had
planned the union-backed protests for some 1,600 stores, it is not clear how
many actually took place.
"Kami bosan menjadi terganggu
dan jam yang kami punyai dipotong apabila kita bercakap mengenai pelbagai
isu," kata seorang pekerja Walmart membantah di New Jersey kepada RT ini
Marina Portnaya.
“We’re tired of being harassed
and having our hours cut when we speak up about issues,” a Walmart employee
protesting in New Jersey told RT’s Marina Portnaya.
Kira-kira 100 orang membantah di luar North Bergen, NJ #Walmart
melaungkan "Kami tidak boleh hidup pada $ 8,25" #WalmartStrikers (About
100 people protesting outside North Bergen, NJ #Walmart chanting
"We can't survive on $8.25" #WalmartStrikers) 10:44 PM - 28
Nov 2014
Walmart mendakwa ia membayar pekerja sepenuh masa purata $
12,94 sejam. Bagaimanapun, adalah paling terhad kepada kerja minggu kerja 28
jam dan menerima hanya $ 8,25 per jam.
"Saya bosan [Walmart] membuli semua orang - dan mereka suka
membuli," Nancy Reynolds, yang Walmart pekerja sambilan berusia 67 tahun di
Florida, memberitahu Guardian.
Walmart claims it pays full-time employees an average of
$12.94 an hour. Most, however, are restricted to working 28-hour work weeks and
receive only $8.25 per hour.
“I’m tired of [Walmart] bullying everyone – and they do love
to bully,” Nancy Reynolds, a 67-year-old part-time Walmart employee in Florida,
told the Guardian.
Lebih ramai pekerja makanan segera di Milpitas dalam perpaduan dengan
10s ribu #walmartstrikers yang berjalan keluar hari ini! (More fast food workers
in Milpitas in solidarity with the 10s of thousands of #walmartstrikers who
walked out today)! 7:58 AM - 29
Nov 2014
Tidak semua penunjuk perasaan memprotes Jumaat adalah pekerja
Walmart. Ramai ahli kesatuan yang menegaskan bahawa upah yang rendah adalah isu
masyarakat tidak eksklusif untuk Walmart.
"Kami tidak akan berehat sehingga pekerja Walmart
mempunyai hak utk kesatuan sekerja, hak untuk gaji yang hidup, dan hak untuk
keadaan kerja yang baik dan jam," Randi Weingarten, Presiden Persekutuan
Amerika kesatuan Guru, berkata kepada orang ramai dlm North Bergen, New
Jersey, CNN Money yg melaporkan.
Walaupun protes berlaku, beberapa ahli politik berprofil
tinggi yang menyuarakan sokongan mereka bagi tujuan itu. New York Peguam Negara,
Eric Schneiderman & Speaker New York Majlis Bandaraya Melissa Mark-Viverito
menyatakan sokongan mereka.
Walmart, yang mempunyai lebih 4,000 kedai di Amerika
Syarikat, menggaji 1.3 juta pekerja di seluruh negara.
Pelawak British dan aktivis Russell Brand menimbang dan
menggesa penyokongnya untuk berdiri untuk raksasa binatang runcit dalam video
yang disiarkan di YouTube.
Not all of the demonstrators at Friday’s protests were
Walmart employees. Many were union members who stressed that low wages are a
community issue not exclusive to Walmart.
"We will not rest until Walmart workers have a right to
a union, a right to a living wage, and a right to decent working conditions and
hours," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers
union, said to a crowd in North Bergen, New Jersey, CNN Money reported.
While protests took place, several high profile politicians
voiced their support for the cause. New York Attorney General, Eric
Schneiderman and Speaker of New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito
expressed their support.
Walmart, which has over 4,000 stores in the US, employs 1.3
million workers across the country.
British comedian and activist Russell Brand weighed in and
called on his supporters to stand up to the retail behemoth in a video posted
on YouTube.
"Syarikat-syarikat ini
telah menjadi seperti badan2 astronomi gergasi, menakut-nakutkan kami &
menghancurkan kita. Satu-satunya cara kita boleh nyata kepada mereka adalah
melalui tindakan secara langsung dan kreatif oleh diri kita sendiri mengambil
tahap tanggungjawab peribadi, "katanya.
Penyerang Walmart tidak adalah
satu-satunya penunjuk perasaan berarak di jalan raya Jumaat ini. Mereka
disertai bydemonstrators rali terhadap kekejaman polis dan profil perkauman di
tengah-tengah sebuah Missouri keputusan juri untuk tidak mendakwa seorang
pegawai putih yang ditembak seorang remaja hitam.
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“These companies have become
like giant astronomical bodies, intimidating us and crushing us. The only way
we can confront them is through creative direct action and by ourselves taking
a degree of personal responsibility,” he said.
Walmart strikers weren’t the only protesters taking to the
streets this Friday. They were joined by demonstrators
rallying against police brutality and racial profiling in the wake of
a Missouri grand jury decision not to indict a white officer who fatally shot a
black teen.
