"We asked for fair pay & Walmart called the FBI."

Petition to Members of the Congressional Select Committees on Intelligence & the Judiciary Committee

Walmart has been partnering with the FBI Terrorism Task Force & military giant Lockheed Martin to spy on worker-led protests and to spy on OUR Walmart's partners.  

My name is Cyndi Murray, I’m a mother of 2 and a grandmother, and I’m a 16-year Walmart employee from Laurel, MD.

I’ve been speaking out publicly for better pay at Walmart for the last few years because too many of my co-workers go hungry. We’re calling on Walmart to pay us $15 an hour and offer more full-time work. It’s no secret that Walmart would prefer to pay us less, but my co-workers and I believe that by coming together we can bring change to Walmart.

I was shocked to recently learn that Walmart may have enlisted the FBI Terrorism Task Force to spy on those of us who are speaking out. Walmart also hired a massive defense contractor – Lockheed Martin, to do surveillance on us.

What kind of country do we live in where a giant corporation can enlist the FBI and hire defense contractors to spy on their employees who are doing nothing wrong. We’re calling for decent wages, for food of our families, for our livelihood. Why spy on us?

Instead of fighting us, spying on us and using every deceptive tactic under the sun to protect their giant profits they should join us— pay us decent wages, provide us good hours. Please support our call to hold Walmart accountable. And join our call on our government to end their collaboration with Walmart and instead, stand with us and protect our right to speak out freely without fear of reprisal.

You can read the Bloomberg Article here.

See Walmart Executive official testimony here.

To: Petition to Members of the Congressional Select Committees on Intelligence & the Judiciary Committee
From: [Your Name]

PETITION: We the undersigned are asking Members of the Congressional Select Committee on Intelligence & the Judiciary Committee to act on recent revelations that Walmart has been partnering with the FBI Terrorism Task Force & military giant Lockheed Martin to spy on worker-led protests and to spy on some of OUR Walmart's allies.

The FBI Terrorism Task-force has no business conducting surveillance operations of Walmart employees who are speaking up for fair wages. These are innocent Americans fighting for fair wages and it is an outrage, not to mention a waste of taxpayer money, that the FBI appears to be working with Walmart Stores, Inc. to bully & silence Walmart workers.

We want a commitment that the FBI Terrorism Task-force will cease all collaboration & cooperation with Walmart and for members of the Congressional Select Committees on Intelligence to meet with leaders from the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart) who were impacted by these activities.