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🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Working at Walmart has been mentally and physically draining. |
0:03.0 | Many of my colleagues rely on public assistance |
0:06.4 | just to survive and some are homeless. |
0:09.2 | I feel like management sometimes puts aside safety |
0:12.3 | in order to be more productive. |
0:14.0 | We couldn't miss too many days even if it was a family emergency. |
0:17.0 | We barely had time for our family. |
0:19.0 | Favoritism and picking up on a lot of heavy stuff. |
0:22.0 | I'm constantly having to worry about whether or not |
0:24.0 | my hours are going to get cut. |
0:29.0 | Walmart is the largest company on the planet. |
0:32.0 | In 2018, it pulled in 500 billion dollars in |
0:36.6 | revenue. Its owners, the Waltons, are the richest family in the United States worth around $175 billion. |
0:47.0 | And it employs 2.2 million people. |
0:50.0 | That's about a million more than the entire US military. |
0:54.0 | And yet, as you just heard, Walmart's workers, you know, the people who make the entire thing possible, |
1:01.0 | are scraping by on some of the lowest wages in the country. |
1:06.2 | Many work multiple jobs or rely on food aid from the federal government. |
1:11.0 | They deal with unpredictable schedules, almost zero job security, and bad bosses. |
1:17.0 | And they're far from alone. |
1:20.0 | How in the richest country on earth did we let this happen? |
1:25.0 | Well, it's a story that stretches back to the early 20th century |
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