-- Coalition to call on all Americans to join Mother's Day campaign/ Demand Wal-Mart End Discrimination against Women
Members of Congress, former Miss America Carolyn Sapp, former Wal-Mart workers, and representatives of the UFCW's WakeupWalmart.com campaign and AFL-CIO will join together to kick off the "Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart" campaign TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 26th, at 10 AM on Cannon Terrace (House side).
Speakers will highlight Wal-Mart's troubling record of discriminating against its women workers and will call on all Americans to support this grassroots effort to change Wal-Mart. In honor of Mother's Day, the speakers join together in signing the "Mother of all Mother's Day Cards" to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott, calling on Wal-Mart to honor and respect our nation's women and mothers by ending the company's discrimination against women.
Who: Linda Chavez Thompson, Executive Vice President of AFL- CIO
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Congressman George Miller
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Congresswoman Linda Sanchez
Congresswoman Hilda Solis
Carolyn Sapp, Former Miss America and spokesperson of Women Vs Wal-Mart
Sherry Mullins, Christina Bingham, Kimberly Pain -- plaintiffs in Dukes vs. Wal-Mart, representing 1.6 million former and current female Wal-Mart employees
Background
Approximately 700,000 women work for Wal-Mart which makes the Company the largest private sector employer of women in the United States. Wal-Mart has come under fire for its unfair treatment of its female employees. Wal-Mart is currently part of the largest gender discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history. Over 1.5 million former and current female employees are suing the company for pay and promotion disparity. At every level, from cashiers to senior executives, Wal-Mart pays its female employees less than their male counterparts. An analysis of Wal-Mart payroll records done in 2003 showed that despite making up 72 percent of the hourly workforce, women only accounted for 33 percent of managers and only 15 percent of store managers. For the same job classification, women earned from 5 percent to 15 percent less than men, even after taking into account factors such as seniority and performance. This equates to nearly 40 cents less per hour for hourly workers or nearly $5,000 per year for managers.
Posted by UFCW 227 at April 25, 2005 02:57 PM