[Marxism] Workers Assail Night Lock-Ins by Wal-Mart

[<lshan@xxxxxxx>]

Obviously this worker should have gone through the fire exit. However, aside
from the indictment of Wal-Mart, this also points up the desperation that
many feel in the present economy.
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Workers Assail Night Lock-Ins by Wal-Mart
...
Looking back to that night, Michael Rodriguez still has trouble believing
the situation he faced when he was stocking shelves on the overnight shift
at the Sam's Club in Corpus Christi, Tex.

It was 3 a.m., Mr. Rodriguez recalled, some heavy machinery had just smashed
into his ankle, and he had no idea how he would get to the hospital.

The Sam's Club, a Wal-Mart subsidiary, had locked its overnight workers in,
as it always did, to keep robbers out and, as some managers say, to prevent
employee theft. As usual, there was no manager with a key to let Mr.
Rodriguez out. The fire exit, he said, was hardly an option ? management had
drummed into the overnight workers that if they ever used that exit for
anything but a fire, they would lose their jobs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/national/18WALM.html?ex=1075452274&ei=1&en
=83aeaf4fec54d22e


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