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Manager. jones, as i said, was seeking some reassurance from walmart that it would not retaliate against her employees, its employees that walked out on the picket lines today in various cities across the country. jones was unwilling to provide that assurance, simply saying that walmart respects its employees. jones then gave reassurance of his own to the store that they will be back as long as it takes and as often as it takes to secure their protest aims. now, you heard in the interview that i did with the reverend that the united food and commercial workers' union was instrumental in organi...

>> we have a view that the employment practices are colonialist, long working hours and no job security. >> to preevent picketing wal-mart filed unfair labor practices claim with the national labor relations board. nlrb. they claim they are mounting a stealth effort to unionize wal-mart's workforce. >> they are trying to rally unsuccessfully. they have a good deal at wal-mart. >> a republican member and three democrats the nlrb spent four days deposing witnesses and reviewing documents and expected to issue a rare ruling in the wal-mart dispute. outside los angeles, international airport. the ...

Holidays. of course, we will be covering this story for you, hostess brands and a big fight and thousands of jobs at stake there. jim rosen is live with more. >> good afternoon. a spokesman for the national labor relations board tells us they expect to issue the ruling. in the wal-mart case on thanksgiving day. wal-mart is the nation's largest retailer and employer with post-1.5 million employees in the u.s. that failed last fiscal year with nearly 500 billion. the company filed a complaint in little rock, arkansas last week, with unfair labor practices on the part of the united commercial wor...

Up outside a wal-mart dore and say, lousy labor practices. >> that's freedom of speech. that's okay. until it becomes organized and it is backed by union which there is belief and factual information that this has been backed by the union over the course of months. >> only if it is a union organizing. >> if it is a union organizing there are laws the union has to uh body by. >> i don't know why you are smiling, but are you laughing at me here. there is an e-mail saying everybody show up at wal-mart on friday and protest these lousy labor relations. you can't stop him from saying that? >> you c...

Use local food pantries. >> i'm tired of being discriminated by management. >> we have to depend on each other check by check and borrow money from each other to make it for the week. >> i spoke out in my store and walmart fired me for it. >> walmart says that they do not fire people as retaliation. that's on the record. it would be illegal. heather, the context for this, to broaden this out is we have a -- one of the largest employers and kind of setting a benchmark for post labor practices, logistics, marketing practices, pricing. i guess people will say look, yeah, it sounds like it's not a...