The People's Record

Some of us work from 2:00 in the morning til 5:00 or 6:00 in the evening and get no paid overtime. Pressures to work got so bad that the supervisors locked the doors so that we couldn’t take breaks. When the doors weren’t locked we could only take five minute breaks. We were also threatened by the supervisor that if we took too long of a bathroom break or lunch break he would beat us.

Marta Uvalle, a worker at C.J.’s Seafood, a Wal-Mart vendor in Louisiana. Workers at C.J.’s Seafood have made headlines with a strike against the company—and they’re taking their complaints straight to the top, asking Wal-Mart officials and board members to meet with them to discuss their conditions. They’re guestworkers from Mexico, brought in on H-2B visas to work temporarily in the U.S. preparing crawfish for distribution in Wal-Mart stores.

Read the full article - “Destroying Communities, Abusing Workers: What’s (Still) the Matter with Wal-Mart”

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