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Patti Waldmeir: Wal-Mart women take to class war

By Patti Waldmeir

Published: January 19 2005 18:42 | Last updated: January 19 2005 18:42

I am a woman and I love Wal-Mart. I guess that makes me a traitor to my class.

Because a "class" of 1.5m of my fellow females is trying to sue the world's most maligned corporation for treating them worse than men. Theirs is the biggest mass employment lawsuit in history but it is about much more than sex. If the women of Wal-Mart succeed in humbling the world's biggest corporation it could alter the balance of power between bosses and workers throughout America. Forget unions: in the 21st century, workers of the world unite in court.

Patti Waldmeir

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