Like Mordor, but with shopping carts. (Wikimedia)

Like Mordor, but with shopping carts. ( Wikimedia

On Friday, November 25th, Occupy Seattle will join Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Bellingham and Occupy Everett in a statewide protest at Wal-Mart in Renton at 2:00pm. With its long history of mistreating workers and suppliers, its recent announcement of significant cutbacks on employee health care, and its obscene profits, Wal-Mart is a prime example of how the 99% are suffering at the hands of the 1%. [...] With $14.3 billion in profits in 2010, Wal-Mart still saw fit to eliminate health insurance coverage for part time employees, cut company contributions to employee health savings accounts by 50% and increase health care premiums 17% to 61% for over 2.1 million employees worldwide. According to an article in the Huffington Post, the average Wal-Mart worker makes $8.81 per hour, while the CEO makes $8990.00 per hour.

Protesting specific companies that are doing the most to hurt American workers (and by extension, consumers)? Sounds good.

The other thing to do, of course, is not shop at Wal-Mart at all, but I assume most progressives are already avoiding them. Wal-Mart sets a standard for poor worker treatment that other companies can only aspire to.

