Powerful Allies Stand with OUR Walmart

Powerful organizations that advocate for women and families from across the country have come together to stand with OUR Walmart. 9 to 5: National Association of Working Women, Family Values @ Work, Labor Project for Working Families, National Congress of Black Women, Coalition of Labor Union Women, National Organization for Women (NOW), National Partnership for Women & Families, Making Change at Walmart, and the United Food and Commercial Workers Women’s Network announced today that they are joining Making Change at Walmart, a campaign of OUR Walmart allies.

These groups are going to join OUR Walmart leaders in a conversation about workplace conditions for women at the nation’s largest private employer, Walmart. While the United States Supreme Court found in June that current and former female Walmart Associates were not able to sue the as a class in the Dukes v. Walmart lawsuit, the Court failed to address the facts of the case and did not even seek to determine if the allegations—that more than one million women were discriminated against in pay and promotions—of the case were true. Many of the issues brought into the spotlight by this case are continuing problem for women who work at Walmart, and it is time for those issues to be addressed and fixed.

OUR Walmart is committed to making our company a better place to work for all Associates—women and men. We are proud to have these powerful allies joining us in this goal.

Together, we are calling on Mike Duke, Walmart’s CEO to sit down with representatives from our groups to a to have a frank and open conversation about the conditions women face in Walmart stores, and create a meaningful dialogue for working together to find solutions which would benefit both Walmart and its employees.

This partnership with women’s organizations will seek to address the following:

  1. Family Friendly Scheduling
  2. Access to Equal Pay and Promotional Opportunities
  3. Issue Procedures for Investigating Sexual Harassment complaints that insure fair treatment for both victims and alleged harassers.
  4. Ensure Appropriate Accommodation and Job Security and non-discrimination for Pregnant, Ill or Injured Workers, and hold managers accountable for same.
  5. Salaries that provide a living wage
  6. Affordable family health insurance with comprehensive coverage, including women’s reproductive health needs, for all (including part-time) associates.