Walmart warehouse workers in Southern California and Illinois went on strike! First in SoCal on Sept. 12, and then in Elwood, IL (outside of Chicago) on Sept. 15.
Both groups of workers decided to go on strike to protest unfair and unsafe working conditions. On Sept. 28, the workers in Southern California went back to work, having forced Walmart to address serious health and safety concerns in its contracted warehouses.
Learn more about what’s going on in Illinois on the Warehouse Workers for Justice website – please sign the petition to support the workers and you can donate to the strike fund.
For coverage on the Southern California workers, go to the Warehouse Workers United site.
Both are members of the Food Chain Workers Alliance.