Quarantine Wal-Mart Action Made Boss Violent
This entry was posted on 6/2/2006 3:33 PM and is filed under Bad Employers.
(Originally submitted by Jobs With Justice)
A quarantine action team boldly entered the Wal-Mart store in Uniondale, Long Island at 11:00 hours today in full gear -- hazmat suits, surgical gloves, face shields -- and proceeded to quarantine the cavernous interior. A decoy deployed at one door, permitted the rest of the team to inject themselves without a hitch. The store was meticulously inoculated. "Notices of Quarantine" were served to managers, "Rx Prescriptions for How to Cure Wal-Martitis" were helpfully offered to workers and customers. The quarantine of the store interior lasted 20 minutes(!), culminating in some, ahem, misunderstanding with the management. Somehow, in spite of the fact that they pay their average employee $1,000 below the poverty line, and 46% of employee children are without healthcare or on Medicaid, the managers were unaware that Wal-Mart was a massive threat to the health and safety of their community and needed to be quarantined. Instead of agreeing to pay a living wage and provide affordable health care and be more environmentally conscious, management slapped a 68 year-old church lady and member of the quarantine squad. Corporate America works in mysterious ways. Newsday was on hand to capture it all. We hope vaccination in the form of the Fair Share for Health Care act is passed in NY State this month. From Uniondale, Surgeon General signing out.
