Analysis: The Mounting Guerilla War Against The Reign Of Labor

According to “The Mounting Guerilla War against the Reign of Walmart” by John Logan and “Labor Takes Aim at Walmart – Again” by Spencer Woodman labor at Walmart is awful, employees in warehouses are working in bad working conditions and workers in the retail stores are not earning the wages they deserve. Woodman’s article talks about the different ways that Walmart workers are treated. The workers affected are not just associates in the stores but the ones who are working in the warehouses that Walmart contracts. This article also talks about the different organization out there that are trying to help the employees. For example, Untied Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) was trying to help by organizing Walmart when it came to labor laws. There is also a group among the different Walmart’s called OUR Walmart, which is a way of employees to have their voice heard for only five dollars a month. The article also talks about a few different strikes that happen at a few different Walmart’s, and the strikes are generally over working conditions and wages.
The first strike in Walmart’s history according to the article happened in September and October in 2012. The biggest strike the article mentioned in that year was a twenty-four-hour strike in Las Angeles. This year also focused on the abuse that goes on in Walmart’s supply chain, this article focuses on C.J.’s seafood in Louisiana. According to the article the incident happened in June of 2012 when the Worker Rights Consortium noted that C.J.’s had been working their employee’s twenty-four-hour shifts and payed then 40 percent below the legal minimum