Wal-Mart Urged to Respect Moms

Local labor activists leafleted the Germantown WalMart Friday morning to help launch a nationwide Mother's Day Card Campaign calling on Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer of women, “to publicly end its mistreatment of women workers and their families,” reports Doug Menapace of WakeUpWalMart and MCGEO Local 1994. The "Moms Deserve Better Than Wal-Mart" Mother's Day campaign, launched in Germantown and 42 other cities across America last week, “includes local activists, WakeUpWalMart.com supporters, and moms who will help distribute over 100,000 ‘Mother's Day Cards’ to local consumers and citizens,” Menapace told UNION CITY. “The ‘Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart’ pledge is a promise not buy a Mother's Day gift at Wal-Mart this year unless Wal-Mart promises to change for the better and treat its women workers, especially its mothers, with fairness, equality, respect, and dignity.” Photo by Doug Menapace