Wal-Mart employees who are protesting the company to improve labor standards. Dems back Wal-Mart employees

On Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days on the year, a group of seven Democratic lawmakers came out in support of Wal-Mart employees who are protesting the company to improve labor standards.

“Across the country, there are countless Wal-Mart workers who are paid poverty wages, cannot get enough hours, and have erratic work schedules that make it difficult to survive,” said the statement, issued by Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill), Judy Chu (D-Calif.), William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).


As shoppers by the thousands head to the store’s locations, 1,500 protests will also be held across the nation Friday, the statement said.

“We stand with the courageous Wal-Mart workers who are demanding better wages and an end to illegal retaliation,” the statement said, adding low wages are costing taxpayers nearly $1 million in public assistance. “Taxpayers should not have to pick up the tab because Wal-Mart refuses to pay workers a living wage.”

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