{"id":1976,"date":"2010-06-22T04:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T11:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2010-06-22T04:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T11:19:33","slug":"wall-mart-demonstrates-gop-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/wall-mart-demonstrates-gop-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall-Mart Demonstrates GOP Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been conducting a one-person boycott against Wal-Fart since 2001, because I objected to the way they were treating friends of mine who worked for them, and because they have contributed more the the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs than any other US company.  But their treatment of this employee follows the best tradition of GOP hatred.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22walfart\"<\/a> A Las Vegas man who held a temporary job at Walmart says he was stripped of all his responsibilities and made to wear a yellow vest after telling his manager that he’s gay.<\/p>\n

Fernando Gallardo has filed a complaint with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission claiming that his boss at a Vegas-area Walmart confronted him about his sexuality, and then began treating him rudely and alienated him from co-workers after learning Gallardo was gay<\/strong>, reports The Advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"I was completely ignored and shunned," he wrote in a complaint to the rights commission. "I had nothing to do all day but wander around the store wearing a yellow vest no one else had to wear, much like Jews had to wear a yellow star of David in Hitler’s Germany."<\/p>\n

The Advocate reports that within two months of Gallardo’s forced admission, "his supervisor and two other managers stopped talking to him completely."<\/p>\n

Gallardo, who no longer works at the Walmart location, also claims the store management attempted to "bribe" some of the other temporary workers at the location with permanent jobs in exchange for claiming that Gallardo had offered up the information about his sexual orientation voluntarily<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For this company to persecute an employee over his sexual identity is obscene.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been conducting a one-person boycott against Wal-Fart since 2001, because I objected to the way they were treating friends of mine who worked for them, and because they have contributed more the the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs than any other US company.  But their treatment of this employee follows the best tradition of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}