At The Nation:

Today Walmart workers are demonstrating at the company headquarters in Argentina; marching through Miami, Florida, and Santiago, Chile; leafleting customers in Nicaragua; rallying outside stores in Brazil, India and South Africa; and delivering a letter to the head office of Walmart’s UK subsidiary ASDA.

As I reported yesterday, actions are planned today in ten countries, on five continents, as part of a Global Day of Action in protest of alleged retaliation against workers who are organizing in the United States. The protests are a project of global union federation UNI, the US union-affiliated Making Change at Walmart campaign and the union-backed worker group OUR Walmart.

“It’s wonderful to know that Walmart workers around the world are standing with us,” Jesus Vargas told reporters on a noon conference call. “Our actions affect not just Americans, but our customers and workers around the world.” Vargas, who worked for Walmart in Placerville, California, and joined OUR Walmart two years ago, is among the workers who have filed National Labor Relations Board charges alleging they were illegally fired for their activism. UNI has expressed concern that, if left unchecked, Walmart’s alleged abuses in the United States could spread to more workers in other countries.

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Walmart, the country’s largest private employer, has announced it will no longer provide comment to The Huffington Post, one of the nation’s largest news outlets. Walmart announced its new policy in a statement to The Huffington Post, which was published by The Washington Post Friday evening. The retail giant doubled down yesterday, charging in an e-mail to Politico that a Saturday Huffington Post story—for which Walmart had refused to comment–was “riddled with inaccuracies” and “reinforces our company’s decision to no longer participate in the Huffington Post’s one-sided rhetoric.”

Reached over e-mail, Huffington Post Executive Business Editor Peter Goodman accused Walmart of making a “false” assertion, and said he “can’t recall another company cutting off access in this fashion.”

The Huffington Post has devoted significant coverage to Walmart and its current labor struggles. Walmart’s new policy towards the outlet preceded the publication of Saturday’s story—indeed, the statement announcing the policy appears to have been issued in response to a request for comment for it. That statement cited “one-sided reporting and unfair and unbalanced editorial decisions made by Huffington Post reporters and editors.”

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