walmart beijing (Photo credit: galaygobi)Dear Jim,
My name is Limber, and I work at a warehouse, moving goods for Walmart in Southern California.
Yesterday, we went on strike to protest retaliation by our warehouse employers.
Right now temperatures top 100 degrees daily. Our pay is low and injury is common. We face pollutants, inadequate access to clean drinking water, little ventilation and intense retaliation if we speak up about our working conditions.
We need your help to improve jobs for warehouse workers. Will you sign our letter to Walmart asking executives to meet with warehouse workers and live up to their own "Standards for Suppliers"?
This month warehouse workers and supporters are marching on a 50-mile pilgrimage from Riverside to Los Angeles to win respect and basic improvements to our working conditions.
We want humane working conditions and we want Walmart to sit down with warehouse workers to hear about our experiences moving Walmart goods. Up until now Walmart has ignored us.
Please sign our letter to Walmart asking Walmart executives to meet with warehouse workers and live up to their own "Standards for Suppliers".
It may seem like a small thing, but because we work for subcontractors, Walmart thinks it can look the other way and pretend it has nothing to do with the illegal working conditions we face. Not anymore.
We are delivering the letter to Walmart executives in L.A. at the end of our pilgrimage and we would like to have your support.
Will you join us?
http://takeaction.walmartwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6549
Si se puede,
Limber Herrera
Warehouse Worker
Riverside, California
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