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Walmart employees are staging a walkout to protest gun sales
Hundreds of white-collar Walmart employees are expected to walk out Wednesday afternoon to protest the retailerās gun policies after shootings at two company stores left 24 people dead.
Workers at Walmartās e-commerce offices in San Bruno, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Brooklyn are taking action to urge the worldās largest retailer to stop selling guns and discontinue donations to politicians who receive funding from the National Rifle Association. Walmart sells guns in about half of its 4,750 U.S. stores, making it one of the nationās largest retailers of firearms and ammunition.
The protest, planned for 3 p.m., comes after a gunman killed 22 people and wounded dozens of others at a Walmart store in El Paso on Saturday. Days earlier, a Walmart employee fatally shot two co-workers at a store in Southaven, Miss.
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Walmart Retaliates Against Worker Who Urged Employee Walkout Over Gun Sales
Following a pair of deadly mass shootings over the weekend, including one at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a Walmart e-commerce category specialist, Thomas Marshall, posted two memos widely within the company, urging mass action by employees to pressure management to cease the sale of firearms. Now, Marshall claims he and one of his colleagues are unable to access their internal accounts.