PICO RIVERA, Calif. (AP) — A protest at a Los Angeles-area Walmart focusing on better wages has ended in some two dozen arrests.
Authorities say 23 men and women were arrested Thursday after they blocked traffic at a Pico Rivera intersection during a protest that began with a sit-down strike inside the local Walmart.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says those detained were cited for failure to disperse and released.
A group supported by the United Food & Commercial Workers union is demanding a wage of $15 an hour and full-time work for some employees of the nation’s largest retailer.
Asked to comment on the report, Walmart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said: “Today we focused on serving our customers, but every day we’re focused on the opportunity that we offer our associates across the country.”
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yeah lets arrest the people fighting for a liveing wage so they dont have to struggle to survive…and let the people who tru sheer greed deprive those very people tru wage theift and other despicable underhanded pratices go on like they do to the dertiment of this country and its populace