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Walmart wins procedural victory in gender discrimination case
by charvaka Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:51 pm
This is a setback for class action discrimination suits. It is also a setback in women's efforts to ensure equal pay in the workplace. I guess this is one way the Bush years pay off for large corporations (at the expense of American workers).
First we had too big to fail. Now we have too big to sue.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/21/walmart-women-class-action
The supreme court's free pass on sexism for Walmart
The Roberts court decision to block the class action lawsuit for sex discrimination effectively defines Walmart as 'too big to sue'
Laura Flanders guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 June 2011 17.00 BST Article history
In fact, absent a company-wide memo mandating discrimination, the justices could discern no problematic culture at all. Holding managers' meetings in Hooters? Nope. Referring to women workers as "Janie Qs?" Nah-uh. Paying women less than male workers in every job classification in every region? Explaining, as one plaintiff was told, that Walmart pays men more because "they have families to support?" Apparently, what the plaintiffs needed to produce for this court was an enormous Walmart yard sign reading "CORPORATE PATRIARCHY TO BE PRACTISED HERE".
First we had too big to fail. Now we have too big to sue.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/21/walmart-women-class-action
The supreme court's free pass on sexism for Walmart
The Roberts court decision to block the class action lawsuit for sex discrimination effectively defines Walmart as 'too big to sue'
Laura Flanders guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 June 2011 17.00 BST Article historyIn fact, absent a company-wide memo mandating discrimination, the justices could discern no problematic culture at all. Holding managers' meetings in Hooters? Nope. Referring to women workers as "Janie Qs?" Nah-uh. Paying women less than male workers in every job classification in every region? Explaining, as one plaintiff was told, that Walmart pays men more because "they have families to support?" Apparently, what the plaintiffs needed to produce for this court was an enormous Walmart yard sign reading "CORPORATE PATRIARCHY TO BE PRACTISED HERE".
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