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To: Mike S. - Store Manager at Walmart Store # 3455

Walmart: Stop Cutting Our Hours!

Today, we stand before you, asking Walmart to follow through on its public commitment to providing Associates with MORE HOURS and MORE CLEARLY DEFINED FULL-TIME POSITIONS to be permanently added to our schedules.
My name is Pamela Davis, one of the Illegally Fired Workers, and I am speaking on behalf of the Associates that are too afraid to speak out, for fear of retaliation.

Why is this important?

As Walmart Associates, we want to do the best job we can. We come to work every day and are proud of the job we do. We are the people helping customers, stocking shelves, moving inventory, getting carts and other items to their proper places, and making sure we run the store in the best way possible. However, as we continue to carry out this work, we are finding it difficult to keep food on the table, pay our rent, provide for our family, put gas in our cars, and make ends meet due to the lack of hours in our schedules.

Today, we stand before you, asking Walmart to follow through on its public commitment to providing Associates with MORE HOURS and MORE CLEARLY DEFINED FULL-TIME POSITIONS to be permanently added to our schedules.

We believe this will help ensure that every store is running to the best of its abilities and that Associates will not be going home hungry, avoiding medical care because we are worried about the high cost, living paycheck to paycheck and choosing between rent and food.

We believe more hours and full-time work is a more viable and successful strategy than continually hiring and firing temps and letting go of longtime Associates with invaluable experience. We believe these changes will benefit customers, as when hours and positions are cut, we are no longer able to carry out the necessary work in a timely, safe and efficient manner. It is the right thing to do; for the store, for the customers, for all Associates.

One year ago, Wal-Mart said it would provide Associates the opportunity for more hours and full-time positions. With $17 billion in profit per year, we believe there is no viable reason why Walmart can't follow-through with its commitment and provide much needed change.

We the undersigned request a response within the next 5 business days.

Walmart, Hilltop Mall Road, Richmond, CA, United States

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2014-07-20 21:21:05 -0400

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