Walmart Strike Spreads to 12 Cities

Dan Schlademan, the director of the United Food and Commercial Workers' Making Change At Walmart campaign, has announced that strikes are now taking place at twenty-eight stores, in twelve cities.

The strikes mark the continuation of the first strikes against the company, ever, which began on Friday, in Los Angeles.

Workers are protesting Walmart's attempts to "silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job".

Walmart workers are not part of any union, but the strikers are working closely with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

Some of the strikers plan to protest in front of the company's corporate headquarters, in Bentonville, Arkansas.

1.4 million people, across the country, are employed by Walmart, but at this point only eighty-eight of them are striking.

Though that number will likely continue to increase, as in recent years the company has a history of associates complaining about management failures, working conditions, and low wages.