Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart

By and Poornima Gupta | October 28, 2011

  • October 28, 2011 at 2:22 pm
    Agent says:
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    Let’s see, the unemployment rate is said to be 9.1% and the real unemployment is around 20%, so let’s sue our employer for discrimination. What part of glad to have a job do they not understand? This is all trumped up by lawyers to try to get to the deep pockets. Their previous case was thrown out so let’s do it again in a different jurisdiction and hope for a different result. Wal Mart also has good attorney’s so I wouldn’t expect them to lose this suit.

    • October 28, 2011 at 2:57 pm
      Wayne says:
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      My wife, who is a woman, has worked for WalMart for 22 years and has gotten a raise every one of those years. She has been offered advancement many times, which she has declined. She has worked in every department in the store and currently works in the tire and lube area writing up service, changing oil and mounting and balancing tires. And when it isn’t busy, she stocks shelves, sweeps floors and runs the cash register. She has even traveled to other stores to remodel them.

      She laughs at these complaints because if these women showed up every day and worked, they would be successful, too.

  • October 28, 2011 at 2:52 pm
    Eric says:
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    My wife worked for Wal Mart for 7 years in Baltimore area. She never ran into any sort of descrimination. Using her brains she worked her way up the ladder. This suit is bulloney. These people didn’t want to work

  • October 28, 2011 at 3:00 pm
    caffiend says:
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    I foresee the following if this suit actually wins….

    Lawyers split 30-40% of any settlement meaning millions of dollars to be split among a very small pool… equalling hundreds of thousands of dollars per lawyer

    The rest gets split among 45k+ people.. equalling perhaps just a few hundred dollars each.

  • October 28, 2011 at 3:04 pm
    Baxtor says:
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    I love this comment that was cited in the suit “The lawsuit cites a meeting on Jan. 24, 2004, where then Wal-Mart chief executive Tom Coughlin told district managers that “women tend to be better at information processing,” while men are better at focusing on a single objective.”

    Oh my goodness, what if he would have made a comment that women are better at giving birth than men are. I’m sure there are studies out there that agree with what he said. It wasn’t a bash on women, if anything it could have been a bash on men, but who cares. It was just stating a study that probably has a whole lot of truth to it.

    I agree the lawyers are trying to make a buck and a name for themselves. Hopefully it ends up being “loser” so no one uses them for even a traffic ticket. LOL



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