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THEY PICKED
BLACK FRIDAY
FOR A REASON -
HOPING TO
DISRUPT THE
BUSIEST
SHOPPING DAY OF
THE YEAR.
IN ALBUQUERQUE
- THE WALMART
NEAR CARLISLE
AND MENAUL
APPEARED TO BE
THE FOCUS.
NEWS 13'S
GABRIELLE
BURKHART IS LIVE
IN THE NEWSPLEX.
JESSICA, MOST OF
THE PROTESTORS
WERE FROM
OUTSIDE OF THE
WALMART WORK-
FORCE.
SOME WERE
MEMBERS OF
UNIONS, OTHERS
WERE CONCERNED
CITIZENS.
BUT THERE WERE
A FEW LOCAL
WORKERS WHO
STOOD WITH
THEM.
DOZENS
GATHERED
OUTSIDE THIS
WALMART IN
NORTHEAST
ALBUQUERQUE
TODAY.
HOLDING SIGNS IN
SUPPORT OF
WALMART
WORKERS.
AND ATTRACTING
THE ATTENTION OF
DRIVERS PASSING
BY.
Bob Anderson
05:39 good turnout
and there's not very
many cars in the
parking lot either I
think people are
getting the word here
05:44
MOST OF THOSE
WHO SHOWED UP
TO PROTEST ARE
NOT EMPLOYEES.
EXCEPT THIS
COUPLE -- WHO
MADE THE TREK
FROM CLOVIS
WITH FAMILY...AND
WALKED OUT ON
WALMART LAST
NIGHT.
11:44
reporter: were you
scheduled to go to
work today? :46 yes
and you too? yes 11:49
LIKE THE OTHER
PROTESTERS...
MEGAN JENKINS
AND JOHNNY
WILSON SAY
THEY'RE HERE TO
SPEAK OUT
AGAINST THE
COMPANY...
IRREGULAR
SCHEDULING, LOW
WAGES...
06:24
they are a big
business they should
be paying their
employees like big
businesses pay 06:29
AND -- WALMART'S
DECISION TO
START BLACK
FRIDAY DEALS AT
EIGHT O'CLOCK ON
THANKSGIVING
NIGHT.
, 12:29 everybody else
always follows
walmart, walmart can
be the leader and let
people have their
thanksgiving let them
have the time with
their family, the sales
can wait until friday
12:36
09:44
it used to be midnight
and that was good
enough and its all
about corporate greed
and trying to get more
money and you knowe public fall09:58s actual fday
WILSON SAYS
HE'S NOT AFRAID
OF LOSING HIS
JOB FOR WALKING
OUT.
BUT OTHERS
HERE SAY
WALMART
EMPLOYEES ARE
TOO INTIMIDATED
TO PROTEST.
Wilson, 10:52 I'm out
here fighting it and I'm
out here speaking up
for everybody :54 I
want everybody to
know they can speak
up 10:56
JENKINS AND
WILSON SAY THEY
WILL RETURN TO
WORK AT THE
WALMART IN
CLOVIS THIS
WEEKEND, AND
WAIT FOR THE
BEST.
IN A STATEMENT...
WAL-MART SAID
TODAY THE
NUMBER OF
WAL-MART
EMPLOYEES WHO
MISSED THEIR
SCHEDULED SHIFT
TODAY WAS
ACTUALLY 60-
PERCENT LESS
THAN LAST YEAR.
WALMART
EMPLOYS ABOUT
1-POINT-3 MILLION
PEOPLE.
JESSICA, BACK TO
YOU.
WAL-MART IS OF
COURSE JUST ONE
OF MANY
BUSINESSES
HOPING FOR A
SMOOTH AND