Walmart workers invited a special guest to crash the company’s annual meeting: Bernie Sanders

By artappraiser on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 9:21pm |

By Abha Bhattarai @ WashingtonPost.com, May 21

For years, Walmart workers have attended the company’s annual shareholders meeting to call for higher wages, better benefits and more predictable schedules.

This year they’ll have someone new delivering the message on their behalf: Sen. Bernie Sanders. The presidential candidate, who has repeatedly called on Walmart to improve its working conditions, is heading to Bentonville, Ark., on June 5 to introduce a shareholders’ proposal that would give hourly Walmart workers a seat on the company’s board [....]

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