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Warehouse workers suffer while Wal-Mart rakes in cash

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 09:34 — Dave Culver
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"Major companies are making millions of dollars, like Wal-Mart, and they're far from broke. In fact they treat their workers bad in order to increase their profits while some guy working at a warehouse can't feed his kids. It's just wrong."

Pepe Lozano, People's World


Tory Moore of Warehouse Workers for Justice.

Tory Moore, 37, from Kankakee, Ill., worked as a temp warehouse worker in the southwest suburbs of Chicago for six years before he was fired in December 2009, after standing up for his rights.

Moore said he asked for a pay raise each year and noticed that his paychecks were consistently short. So naturally he complained.

"That's why I got fired," he said.

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