"What goes around comes back around": NEWS: "Black Friday: Wal-Mart workers revolt"

This piece of news was written by Kim Gittleson on 28 of November for the BBC News.

The article talks about how Wal-Mart workers protested in the streets for their rights on Black Friday, one of the biggest sales of the year. Wal-Mart is a big chain of department stores of the retails sector.

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Barbara Gertz, who is working in a Walmart in Aurora, Colorado, explains that many workers have joined OUR Wal-Mart (Organization United for Respect at Wal-Mart) to demand higher wages to the company. She disapproves that some people in Wal-Mart management say that they are open to receive concerns and questions from workers. She has sent her concerns to the company for years and has received no response.

She talks about the OUR Wal-Mart, that has united as well with other organizations like the organization of people who work in fast food chains. All this people has found a new way to protest that is an advantatge for them because they're not seen as an "official" organization. They're "alt-labor" groups and protest for workers' rights. They make strikes in the most important days, like Black Friday, so the companies will be forced to listen to them. This practice has increased because retail companies are getting more and more competitive. The companies force the workers to have bad schedules (they do more hours of work), specially on those specific days.

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I personally think that big companies like Wal-Mart should care more about their workers. They're so obsessed with offering the best deals and sales to gain money that they forget some of the workers' rights. They have to do more hours to prepare those special days and they don't have a fair wage. I think that they're doing a great job with their protests. The system that they've found of protesting on "big days" is going to be successful in the end.