On the eve of Black Friday, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is organizing hundreds of anti-Walmart protests across the country. The UFCW is a member of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), whose president, Richard Trumka, emailed supporters on Monday to rally participation in the protests. Trumka wrote of Walmart, “While the retailer rakes in $16 billion a year in profits, it pays low wages and many of its workers have to rely on public programs, like food stamps, to survive.”

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