Economy battered earning Walmart low-wage protest nationwide on Black Friday shopping holiday

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Low wage protests target Walmart sales day

AFP – Protesters targeted Walmart stores across the United States on Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, accusing the bargain superstore of ripping off its own employees. The protests were designed to disrupt the Black Friday shopping frenzy after Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday.

Why Wal-Mart Black Friday protests are throwback to pre-union days

The Christian Science Monitor

In staging nationwide protests at Wal-Mart stores on Black Friday, employees and labor unions are turning back the clock – trying to influence America’s largest retailer in ways that were the norm before the union movement started in the 1930s. The disgruntled employees group is organizing Friday’s march.