Women workers' class action suit and beyond.

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Length: 0:28:45
Uploaded: 24 Sep, 2012

Recording Date: 23 Sep, 2012
Recording Location: Los Angeles, California and Vancouver BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #22-12 Walmart by Kate Murphy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at wings@wings.org.

Program Title: WINGS #22-12 Walmart
Description: Opinions about Walmart are sharply divided in the US. This program uses resistance to (and support for) a Walmart in Los Angeles's Chinatown, to frame discussion of Dukes v. Walmart, the class action lawsuit by women employees. Rejected in 2011 by the Supreme court, as being too large and diverse a group to constitute a class, the suit is now broken up into smaller cases, at state level.

Host(s): Kate Murphy
Featured Speakers/Guests: King Cheung, whose mother was a Chinatown resident; anonymous local business owner; Aiha Nguyen, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy; male & female demonstrators at anti-walmart rally in LA Chinatown; United Farmworkers founder Dolores Huerta at rally; Liza Featherstone, author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart.

Credits: Produced for WINGS by Kate Murphy; series producer, Frieda Werden.

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