Labor activists demonstrate at Wal-Mart (where a worker was killed on Black Friday by the crowd)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Newsday.com

About a dozen labor rights activists demonstrated Sunday on Sunrise Highway in Valley Stream for better, safer working conditions at the Wal-Mart where a worker was killed by a stampeding Black Friday crowd.

The demonstrators held up signs reading "Black Friday Kills" and "Solidarity with Jdimytai Damour family" - referring to the 34-year-old Queens man who worked as a temp employee and was killed on Nov. 28 when crowds broke through the doors of the Green Acres mall Wal-Mart.

"We're here to make sure that Mr. Damour's loss is not forgotten," said David Pratt, a health and safety specialist with the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health. "This wasn't the crowd's fault. Wal-Mart should have had a plan in place to deal with this difficult situation."

The Nassau district attorney's office has reviewed employee records and surveillance film of the store.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-limart1222,0,5689949.story

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Video at link.

[tomreedtoon]

1. How long until the goons started clubbing them?

What? Nobody clubbed them? Then they weren't really protesting. They were ignored.

You can't get in the face of an evil empire if that evil empire brushes you off.

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2. Too bad they couldn't protest the animals who trampled another human being. nt

[dcsmart]

3. THERE IS POWER IN A UNION

we must all unionize for our own good and to strengthen the worker's voice. we have not heard the last from labor. this is a global struggle and labor must join in solidarity with all workers and oppressed people. we are the power that runs production. it is ours and so are the profits. BLACK FRIDAY. just a symptom of our sick-minded consumerism. SALES KILL.


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