Enforce its Standards for Suppliers and ensure supply chain workers have a seat at the table.

Walmart

We are workers who move Walmart merchandise at a private warehouse in Chino, California. Just a couple of weeks ago the state of California ordered the warehouse owner to repay us more than $1 million in stolen wages. The California Labor Commissioner determined the warehouse operator, Quetico LLC, had shorted our paychecks and those of more than 800 workers.We are so happy that justice has been served, but we continue to risk our jobs just because we blew the whistle. The company is denying it did anything wrong and appealing the state’s ruling. In the meantime we are worried about retaliation and losing our jobs. We don’t know if we will be fired. Walmart has done nothing.You can help us. Sign our petition to Walmart.
Petition by
Trina Tocco
Royal Oak, Michigan
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To: Walmart
From: [Your Name]

Dear Walmart CEO Mike Duke and Walmart Board Members: We stand with the brave warehouse workers in Chino, California who blew the whistle and further exposed abuses in Walmart’s domestic warehouses. What is happening in California is endemic to your entire supply chain. As the largest retailer in the world, Walmart holds the power to clean up an entire industry, improve jobs and protect workers willing to speak out for the greater good. But so far your “Standards for Suppliers,” the rubric that is supposed to dictate the behavior of your contractors worldwide, is nothing more than an empty promise. News that you plan to more closely monitor your domestic warehouse is meaningless unless you include workers in the process. The warehouse workers in Chino, California lived abuses every day, but they had to risk their jobs to speak out – in direct violation of your own Standards for Suppliers. We, the undersigned, stand with the Chino warehouse workers at Quetico, LLC who move merchandise in service of Walmart. We call on Walmart to enforce its Standards for Suppliers and ensure supply chain workers have a seat at the table.