Walmart Workers Arrested While Protesting Unjust Firings, Low Wages

                                                       Walmart employees arrested while protesting unjust firings, low wages. (Photo Credit: Marianne Molov via Twitter and Think Progressive)

Ten fired and presently employed Walmart employees were arrested Thursday in the front of offices in Washington, DC Thursday afternoon at a rally.

The employees had blocked the door to the DC office to demand the company give their jobs back to them and raise wages.

“The activists say Walmart retaliated against them after they joined a strike calling for wage reform,” Think Porgress reported Thursday. “The company is notorious for cutting workers’ hours while paying them poverty wages.

Workers have also reported being denied bathroom breaks or basic medical accommodations.

The protesters called on Walmart to stop retaliating against workers and offer full-time jobs that pay at least $25,000 a year.

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