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Walmart workers protest outside Alice Walton’s penthouse as retail giant cuts jobs
By Julia Conley
February 21, 2020
Walmart workers issued a "wake up call" to Alice Walton, an heir to the retailer's $500 billion fortune, in New York on Tuesday by marching to Walton's New York penthouse and demanding her company pay its 1.5 million workers a living wage and give them reliable, stable work schedules.
The protest was partially a response to the company's so-called "Great Workplace" restructuring initiative which Walmart began testing last year and plans to roll out in at least 1,100 of its 5,300 U.S. stores by the end of 2020.
According to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post Tuesday, employees are bracing ...