Upcoming Walmart Events

[Mo-Yain]

Quite a few things coming up:

1) Ward 4 Thrives Bi-Weekly Mtg
Wednesday, March 30, at 6:30pm
Fort Steven Rec Center
1327 Van Buren, NW
(b/w 13th and 14th ST)
- We'll discuss our upcoming press event at the Wilson Bldg and
other updates

2) "Sweatshop, Warehouse and Walmart: A Worker Truth Tour"
Monday, April 4th, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
George Washington University, Gelman Library
IBT Labor History Research Center (Room 702)
2130 H St NW, Washington D.C. 20002

3) Ward 4 Thrives Press Event
Tuesday, April 5, at 11am
Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
(b/w 13th and 14th ST)
-presenting petitions to certain city officials and small business
and community reps will speak

And yesterday morning was the rally at the Supreme Court to support
Walmart v. Dukes, one of the largest employment lawsuit based on
gender discrimination. The Supreme Court will determine whether the
class action lawsuit can go on or whether each individual woman (over
a million) will have to sue Walmart on their own (implying gender was
not the reason for the discrimination).

One of the foundations of the case, the idea of implicit bias
("Walmart Discrimination Case Grapples with Implicit Biases against
Women") is indicative of Walmart's poor employment policies to account
for this.

Try out this test developed by psychologists at Harvard, the
University of Virginia and the University of Washington — to measure
unconscious bias:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

[DERRICK SMITH]

This seems like a great idea to have in our food council meeting. Some people have issues with what they think as though we can't tell!
Yeah, why don't we all fill this out during the next meeting! It would be interesting to find out our bias, the pre-cursor to sterotypes, prejudice and discrimination.
Isn't it amazing that discrimination is the only illegal form of hate!!!

My Community Union
Derrick Smith, BSN - Program Coordinator
Community Coordinator
202 487-1754
derric...@mycommunityunion.com
 
 
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