Call For Wal-Mart Boycott Yields Small Victory
One day after MPP called for a nationwide boycott of Wal-Mart stores in order to protest the company’s contemptible and baseless firing of Michigan medical marijuana patient Joe Casias, the world’s largest public corporation is already changing its position — albeit not to the extent we all desire.
A Wal-Mart spokesperson has told Fox News that the company is no longer challenging Casias’s eligibility for unemployment, reversing the despicable stance it took before news of the firing made national headlines.
While this change falls far short of the treatment Joe deserves after dedicating the last five years of his life to being a model employee for Wal-Mart, it’s at least a sign that Wal-Mart is feeling the heat from mounting criticism in a country that supports medical marijuana laws by more than 80%.
So let’s keep up the pressure! Allowing Casias to collect unemployment still doesn’t change Wal-Mart’s discriminatory policy of firing medical marijuana patients who are following state law and a doctor’s recommendation.
To learn how to e-mail Wal-Mart’s CEO to say you stand in solidarity with Casias and want Wal-Mart’s policy to change, click here.
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43 comments
Wal Mart fired in me in October for something I supposedly said while in a group putting away make up products(not my usual job). I was the only one fired in the group and no one else was even disciplined. The unemployement office found it to be an unjust firing and I have been collecting unemployment since. Real funny too when I walk in there and cash my check.
Wal Mart is evil regardless of its stance on drug testing. People get manager positions by sucking a store manager off and then try to fire you when you won’t have sex with them.
You have to be effing kidding me. Going after his unemployment insurance? How nasty and vindictive are these people? I’m putting this on my Facebook status, pronto.
Ron Washington get to keep his job even though he tested positive for cocaine. He was the Baseball Manager who tested positive last year.
The only thing that seperates him from the Walmart employee is MLB has its own rules. Go figure
I am from Canada, and I to will boycott Wal mart. All Canadians should also boycott Wal mart.
much kudos on the speedy follow-up mr. meno. Congratulations on giving this gentleman a voice and awarding him his unemployment check. This is clearly a victory for mpp and mr Casias. I hope he is able to find his niche again in the work force. I dont mind unemployment compensation for individuals with such health needs as portrayed by your blogs. I do believe it is in his best health interests to find some other form of employment soon. I understand that work aids in quality of living. I hope im not alone here when i think that walmart doesnt have to give him his job back. Why would he want to continue employment with them? So many of us rely on walmart for guaranteed perpetual employment. when we all depend on them, they control all of us.
Instead, i believe i have a better idea for mpp and mr. Casias. Why not just run a feature on mr. Casias showcasing his skills, strengths and weaknesses. Surely someone can give this man money in exchange for services with full tolerance and acceptability of his heath conditions and preffered method of treatment.
Please Mr. Casias, dont think you are entitled a job at walmart nor that you have little possibility of success elsewhere. Perhaps like a librarian!! Yea! Become an educator and catalyst for our youths passion for literature! (my dream job if i could ever come out of the closet totally. dis whole prohibition thing is bumming me out)
DONT STOP THE BOYCOTT!!! please tell this story to everyone…. 81% of the nation supports medical marijuana
81% of the nation despises wal mart ( sounds like it could be right )
i kn0w it wont happen but wouldnt it be funny if the marijuana movement was what brought wal mart to its knees? id love it!
It is always good to see some kind of justice being done. Also gives us another reason to despise Wal-Mart for acting so darn shady. Come out all strong saying they did what they had to do, and now after all the protests they want to play nice. I hate cowards and that’s what Wal-Mart executives are.
Wishing good luck to Mr.Casias and all other MMJ patients across our nation who had suffered or are suffering from discrimination because of their choice of medication.
Free The Weed. Free The People.
Here is the response letter that I received from Wal-Mart today:
—–Original Message—–
From: Ethics
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:29 AM
To: seminole35@verizon.net
Subject: RE: Stop discriminating against sick people!
Darth,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office. One of our
objectives is to provide guidance for ethical dilemmas and to ensure formal review for behavior inconsistent with the Walmart Statement of Ethics. A copy of which can be found at http://www.walmartstores.com/ethics. This is just an unfortunate situation all around. We are sympathetic to Mr. Casias’ condition but, like other companies, we have to consider the overall safety of our customers and associates, including Mr. Casias, when making a difficult decision like this. Thank you for contacting
the Global Ethics Office.
Chris,
Global Ethics Office
_________________________
I suggest each of you write them back and tell them how you feel:
Chris – Ethics.Helpline@wal-mart.com
Here was my response to their email:
Chris,
I understand that your position oversees Wal-Mart’s Global Ethics division, but I would like to point out that first and foremost this incident is occurring in the State of Michigan and there are laws in Michigan that you are bound to uphold. Wal-Mart should pay close attention to the language that is included within the recent Medical Marijuana law that has been implemented:
Sec. 4. (a) A qualifying patient who has been issued and possesses a registry identification card shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner, or denied any right or privilege, including but not limited to civil penalty or disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, for the medical use of marihuana in accordance with this act, provided that the qualifying patient possesses an amount of marihuana that does not exceed 2.5 ounces of usable marihuana, and, if the qualifying patient has not specified that a primary caregiver will be allowed under state law to cultivate marihuana for the qualifying patient, 12 marihuana plants kept in an enclosed, locked facility. Any incidental amount of seeds, stalks, and unusable roots shall also be allowed under state law and shall not be included in this amount.
Please consider the impact as to what has occurred in this situation, and remember that the State Laws of Michigan are clear that Medical Marijuana patients…. “shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner, or denied any right or privilege, including but not limited to civil penalty or disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, for the medical use of marihuana in accordance with this act…”
The firing of this employee is in direct opposition to the laws in Michigan and should be reversed immediately. Had this situation occurred in a State without this specific reference in the law then Wal-Mart would be justified in their actions. I hope that you can effectively review all of the circumstances surrounding this incident and come to the correct decision. I, like many others, will not be shopping in your stores until a change is made.
Darth Nole
____________________
I’ll post their response if I get one.
An excerpt from the Wal-Mart Statement of Ethics:
“If any part of this Statement of Ethics goes against local policies or laws, then the local policy or law must always be followed. It’s
our responsibility to know all of the local laws and policies that might affect our area of business.”
I would gather that they should then follow the Michigan State Medical Marijuana Laws!!!
You guys have the support of Hailmaryjane.com. We are rallying the troops. Mother fuck a Walmart.
nice research DarthNole…. they are clearly going against state law and even their own policy….
Thanks for providing an email setup to contact the CEO of Wal-Mart. What I would like to find the email addresses of all of the Board of Directors. Does anyone have them or some and can they post? I really think they need to hear from us individually and in volume about this. Also typically these board members sit on other boards as well and perhaps those boards should be notified of what their board member is also doing on behalf of their company. Do you see where I am going with this?
I changed my email to put my words in and thought I would share my feeling on this with you as well.
Dear Mr. Drake,
Mr. Casias is a 29 yr old employee who is faced with sinus cancer as well as a tumor pressing on his skull. He has two young children he is financially responsible for. He was working for Wal-Mart making all of 27K a year and was in good standing with his boss when a drug test revealed he was taking medical marijuana. He did not show up for work high. His boss did not think it was a big deal but corporate policy makers came down hard and forced the boss to fire this employee.
You know Wal-Mart is making Scrooge look like Jesus Christ!
I contacted the “Ethics” department at Wal-Mart and not surprisingly I got a standard response giving me a link to corporate policy and explaining this man could harm someone at work.
This employee has been taking this for some time now and has not harmed anyone at this point. I am amazed this man can make it to work at all and Wal-Mart really doesn’t deserve such a dedicated worker. Why this man hasn’t been given a disability since his tumor is inoperable and his future looks pretty bleak at best is puzzling.
I know the profits are not what they should have been this past Christmas for Wal-Mart and they are closing stores but is it really necessary for them to kick hard working terminally ill employees to the curb to appease stockholders? You know it gets harder and harder to justify shopping at Wal-Mart. They make it so difficult, really. The way they treat their employees is a long standing issue with Wal-Mart. Really how much lower can they get now? I am hard pressed to think of something worse.
I bet the CEO and men and women on the Board of Directors are not required to pee in a cup weekly or at the whim of anyone at Wal-Mart. I am certain there is a caste system in place where the upper levels live a privileged working environment. They do not have to fear some poorly applied corporate policy that has no compassion or understanding of the human condition is hovering over them in a life or death situation. Is it really possible to create policy for every possibility where all possible threats are weeded out? I applaud Wal-Mart for being so thorough. But the probability should be part of the process. Just as meteors are probably not going to rip through the roof and kill a customer, I seriously doubt Mr. Casias is going to harm anyone. Any cashier can one day lose it and no one know can direct policy to prevent it. I do think some pencil pushing attorney scared some executive into believing this case would somehow open the flood gates to hell for Wal-Mart and to let this man keep his job or go on disability would mean disaster for the company as a whole. I would argue that is a bunch of crap, to be succinct.
I think all sorts of exceptions are made at Wal-Mart. I think this is a PR nightmare about to explode even further for Wal-Mart. If they were smart, they would stick this guy on disability and quietly let the thing die or rather Mr. Casias. It would have been the smart thing to do. But it is too late for that now. Now lawyers will get involved and make a good case that the real reason was to weed out expensive healthcare to the company and discriminating against him.
Wal-Mart spends tons of money on ads and handling out money to causes to appear like the good corporate citizen, meanwhile they are kicking terminally ill hard working employees out the back door. You know Wal-Mart is making harder and harder to justify shopping there. I would feel like a heel now going into one of their stores now knowing that I am profiting from Wal-Mart’s incredibly heartless approach to employees who are barely scratching by as it is and now they are using sneaky drug testing tactics to get rid of terminally ill employees. That is the bottom line here.
Yes it is expensive to do business. Yes when you have lot of employees some may get sick and some very sick. Why hasn’t Wal-Mart made provisions for this already? Why is the only solution to this is to get rid of it? Mr. Drake I hope you do not ever have to be faced with terminal cancer in your lifetime. But if you do and if there is some way to make the process of dying just a little more painless that you will be allowed to use it and not be discriminated for a genetic condition you had no control over. I doubt if I could have show up for work like this man. He didn’t steal from anyone, like some would or could. He didn’t let others feel too sorry for him, he didn’t give up. How much more can a man be tested? Have you seen pictures of him? He is only 29 yrs old and looks so ill.
President Obama has made healthcare for everyone one of his top priorities. He knows all too well when someone is without health care it can mean a death sentence for those who are very ill. He watched his mother plead for help with her cancer and was shut down by those who could and should have helped but it wasn’t corporate policy. Her situation went on deaf ears and should not have. With firing Mr. Casias they did more than just take his work away they sentenced him to an unimaginable struggle. My guess is Mr. Casias just lost his health insurance when Wal-Mart fired him for being sick really. If nothing else it just proves how desperate we need change since corporations have no qualms cutting lose terminally sick employees to save a buck.
Wal-Mart is looking like the poster boy for why health care needs reforms. I hope the press just takes Wal-Mart to task and the attorneys take them to the cleaners on this one. Once again Wal-Mart will lose in the court of public opinion just as they have in the past. Too many members on the board look like they have been there much too long and they are the ones who initially put those bad policies in place. Being stubborn is costing them a lot and other corporate entities are probably dancing with delight that once again Wal-Mart has done it to themselves. How much will it cost Wal-Mart for damage control on this one vs how much it would cost to keep this guy on the books for the few months he had left? Remember he makes only 27K a year. Wal-Mart is famous for knowing how to get product from point A to point B on time, good at organizing but who at corporate office was managing this?
In today’s political climate I suggest Wal-Mart look like the hero instead of the villain and turn this situation around. I know all it would take is one phone call to make that happen.
Mr. Drake could you please look into this? If not, could you please forward my email to all of the other members of the Board, if not then can you give me email addresses where I could make an appeal directly to them myself?
Thank you in advance for taking the time out of your busy day to read this.
Deanne Broughton
House wife
I tried to post Wal-Mart’s response to my first email (through the MPP site) but I think it was deleted because it included email addresses (thaks BTW I really didn’t want to post my email address anyway!):
—–Original Message—–
From: Ethics
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:29 AM
To: seminole35@verizon.net
Subject: RE: Stop discriminating against sick people!
Darth,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office. One of our
objectives is to provide guidance for ethical dilemmas and to ensure
formal review for behavior inconsistent with the Walmart Statement of
Ethics. A copy of which can be found at http://www.walmartstores.com/ethics.
This is just an unfortunate situation all around. We are sympathetic to
Mr. Casias’ condition but, like other companies, we have to consider the
overall safety of our customers and associates, including Mr. Casias,
when making a difficult decision like this. Thank you for contacting
the Global Ethics Office.
Chris,
Global Ethics Office—–Original Message—–
From: Ethics
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:29 AM
To: DarthNole
Subject: RE: Stop discriminating against sick people!
Darth,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office. One of our
objectives is to provide guidance for ethical dilemmas and to ensure formal review for behavior inconsistent with the Walmart Statement of Ethics. A copy of which can be found at http://www.walmartstores.com/ethics. This is just an unfortunate situation all around. We are sympathetic to Mr. Casias’ condition but, like other companies, we have to consider the
overall safety of our customers and associates, including Mr. Casias, when making a difficult decision like this. Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office.
Chris,
Global Ethics Office
I suggest we start sending emails to the “Global Ethics Office” and ask them how come they aren’t following their own “Statement of Ethics”. The State Medical Marijuana Law is specific that patients complying with this law “shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner, or denied any right or privilege, including but not limited to civil penalty or disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, for the medical use of marihuana in accordance with this act…”
They are saying they “have to consider the overall safety of our customers and associates…” but their Statement of Ethics says that local laws “must always be followed”. A little contradictory in this situation, HUH?!?!
Ethics.Helpline @ wal-mart.com
I tried to post Wal-Mart’s response to my first email (through the MPP site) but I think it was deleted because it included email addresses (thanks BTW I really didn’t want to post my email address anyway!):
__________________________
Global Ethics Office—–Original Message—–
From: Ethics
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:29 AM
To: DarthNole
Subject: RE: Stop discriminating against sick people!
Darth,
Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office. One of our
objectives is to provide guidance for ethical dilemmas and to ensure formal review for behavior inconsistent with the Walmart Statement of Ethics. A copy of which can be found at http://www.walmartstores.com/ethics. This is just an unfortunate situation all around. We are sympathetic to Mr. Casias’ condition but, like other companies, we have to consider the
overall safety of our customers and associates, including Mr. Casias, when making a difficult decision like this. Thank you for contacting the Global Ethics Office.
Chris,
Global Ethics Office
_____________________
I suggest we start sending emails to the “Global Ethics Office” and ask them how come they aren’t following their own “Statement of Ethics”. The State Medical Marijuana Law is specific that patients complying with this law “shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner, or denied any right or privilege, including but not limited to civil penalty or disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, for the medical use of marihuana in accordance with this act…”
They are saying they “have to consider the overall safety of our customers and associates…” but their Statement of Ethics says that local laws “must always be followed”. A little contradictory in this situation, HUH?!?!
Ethics.Helpline @ wal-mart.com
@ Darth Nole, I hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to pilfer your exemplary posts regarding Michigan law and medical cannabis to add to my post regarding this on my blog. Kudos on the letter and highlighting the info.
~MaryJane
http://maryjanecannabian.blogspot.com/2010/03/calling-all-my-fellow-mamas-walmart.html
It’s also interesting to note that WalMart is also taking heat now for an unrelated incident involving someone making a racist comment over a store PA system.
It seems that WalMart discriminates against minorities and pot-smokers. I, for one, won’t be shopping there anymore.
I hope you get it together Wall-mart I am fixen to walk away from wall- mart forever. If you choose to imberess that man ever again I am gone allso .I will take one more coustomer with me on my way out too. Sooo you can say bye to me and my friends too.
wall- mart is starting to suck the life out of this country……………I kind of miss ma and pop stores all of a sudden
bye forever
I am done with your one sided way and I am done with wall mart now that you are embarrising plp @ will. bye wall mart and my friends will follow me…………..
Walmart is heartless. To bad its such a great place to shop. I am a convicted felon, marijuana growing charge, and they won’t hire me but they sure want me to shop there. I’m poor and can’t afford to shop at high end stores so it’s walmart or nothing. The dollar store beats alot of their prices but they have a very limited inventory of products. So what can you do?
Sad thing is that anyone ever walks into that store, they have done their fair share in undermining much of our liberty. They are a virus that kills without remorse but the cheap greed of the population continues to spend money there? This just exposes what has always been there. A place ran by empty soulless Scum
Please everyone send this to Walmart.
This is disgusting how they treat a sick person without being educated on the subject.
This employee is putting nobody in danger.Drug tests don’t tell an employer if a person is intoxicated on the job.
This is a finding of FACT from the DEA about the safety of medical marijuana…See especially section 4…
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/YOUNG/index.html
i didnt even know MPP called for a Walmart Boycott, but I did email the walmart corporate headquaretrs to tell them i wont shop at walmart anymore. The guy was sick and now he lost his health care and his job. Its despicable. I hope someone hires this guy from all the publicity.
U SHOULD BAN WALMARTS IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE THEY KILL SMALL AMERICAN BUSINESSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELLO!!!!!!!!!!! NE 1 LISTENING????????
Wallmart is too late and not serious enough. Go to hell. you will never get a penny from me in a check out line again. MPP, this is old news and wallmart does not care about it’s employees any way. Out west people are being robbed, beaten, shot and killed over med mj and the cops are not doing the job they were hired to do. Who is protecting the people, the people have to protect themselves because the cops treat the victems like they are the criminals. BOYCOT CHINA, BOYCOT WALLMART.
On the subject of unemployment has anyone heard that Georgia is purposing to drug test anyone on Unemployment, Food-stamps or any governmental assistance in order for them to keep their benefits. This will only affect marijuana users since other hard drugs are metabolized quicker. Please help get this story out. We are all suffering down here in the south and are trying to come together. Remember “united we stand, divided we fall”
i’m gonna be frank and say this: If Wal-Mart fired this man for a failed drug screen then it would have to be a drug that the employee is both using as prescribed and the company would also have to know of its prescription for a situation like this if the employer does not know of his prescription then the firing could occur and this goes for any prescription. If the said former employee had told the said wal-mart store that this was a prescribed medication then wal-mart would be black balling said employee because of their stance on the substance but if they were not informed, and i hate to say this, then wal-mart does have the right to fire him even if it is prescribed because of the employee’s decision to not inform the store and is the employee’s fault.
again i hate to put it into these terms but if he did inform them of his use of medical marijuana then he should file a civil suit of discrimination against the company for knowing he used this substance as a form of medication prescribed from a doctor in compliance with state law and firing him for failing a drug screen for what they knew he was medicating with
Once again DarthNole is victorious in actions. I also used part of your medical mj information, the Sec. 4. (a) A qualifying patient …
For now that piece of information has shut up a prohibitionist I occasionally argue with at a science blog.
The man had cancer he took medicine his doctor prescribed. He took it at night and did not show up for work high. He has civil rights that have been violated by Wal-Mart from what I can tell.
Only when he sprained his ankle did they require him to do a drug test. Why is that? Well I guess they are seeing if they could cast any doubt on whose fault it was for any future claims he may make due to that injury. It is more of a scare tactic than anything else really. This is why I think this:
If, the other poster is correct that hard drugs metabolite faster and thus do not show up In urine as well the testing is not really doing what they say it is, which is testing for drugs that may cause the employee to be of harm to himself or others, then in fact they are not conducting a thorough test to reasonable prevent such harm. If they were really concerned, then very elaborate expensive tests would be in ordered and conducted.
That is not the case here. Maybe there insurance company required it but really Wal-Mart could be their own insurance company and somehow I doubt if insurance company dictates all that much to them.
The drug testing is intimidation tactic for injury claims. They aren’t that concerned about harm that would occur at work and I will explain why:
I would challenge the tests on many levels. Who makes them? How they are administered? Do any other chemicals in foods or medicines cause false positives? Were there any studies done on the tests recently in broad numbers to see if any new legal drugs may be triggering false positives?
How about all those other things we use like deodorant and lotions and the list goes on where chemicals come in contact with people? Who did the studies and was there any conflict of interest? We all know how well drug companies test before putting them on the market to use us as their guinea pigs.
So, now what about those pharmaceutical companies. I think they don’t want this can of worms to really open up with Wal-Mart. I will tell you why. They sell tons and tons of medications that you can’t use while driving. Anti depressants, anxiety pills, the list is so very long and least we forget the ones they sell over the counter as well. So how fair is it to only test for a small range of drugs that are used at night and have no affect on you the next day and not include all legal drugs that can impair the patient during the work day? Millions of people are working under the influence where as Mr. Casias came to work not under the influence so how can that be fair?
Some have very dangerous side effects. How many times have you heard on the tv “this may cause suicidal thoughts”. Now that could be harmful! That’s just the thing Wal-Mart said it was afraid of, that Mr. Casias could harm himself or someone at work. I don’t think pot is associated with suicidal thoughts or aggressive behavior. But it is my understanding there has been no real good studies of this so Wal-Mart is basing this on rumor?
I do know that some folks who drink can get very aggressive. But, they don’t fire employees for that, plus it too loses its affect by the next morning like pot.
So it was illegal is why Wal-Mart has problems with it but in that state it is legal to have medical marijuana.
But Wal-Mart has a policy it doesn’t allow it, but they let the Canadian workers use pot without firing them since the federal government has no problems with it.
So that means Wal-Mart has different policies for different countries. They do not treat all their employees in the same fair way. There are different rules for different employees. Does any harm come to those in Canada who work for Wal-Mart? So then the harm reasoning may not have any validity?
I am running out of reasons where Wal-Mart could justify the firing of Mr. Casias. Can you think of any?
I seriously doubt the pharmaceutical companies want this tested too much and all sort of their dirt smeared around in court. Those guys have a lot of money.
Maybe it is time the pharmaceutical companies had a chat with Wal-Mart. Plus if they legalize it, I have a feeling I know who is going to be making and selling it.
Heres my second email to the CEO of Walmart:
As a CEO of a huge company , you know the value of having all the information on any problem before making a dicision.
Here is why the policy at wal-mart is wrong.
I watched two of my loved ones die , not of the cancer that ailed them, but of the drugs used to treat the cancer. These drugs the doctors pumped into them killed them. This is how. These drugs attack all cells in your body, ruining your ability to eat, ruining your immune system. Thier bodies could no longer fight of deaseses, they could no longer eat due to constant neausea. Yes they had pills to counter the neausea…if they could have keep them down. Thier bodies weakened and they starved to the point of thier hearts giving out. They died due to the treatment of the cancer.
So as you can see , the use of Medical Cannabis is valuable to these people. It helps manage thier pain, it helps keep their appetite up, in short, it gives them a fighting chance to live. Are you going to deny this to your own family if needed?
The day is comming when Medical Cannabis WILL be a norm in our great nation,That day is coming fast. Will you and wal-mart adjust to the times?
The day is also coming that Cannabis will be used recreational…legally. How will wal-mart adjust to this?
I urge you as a CEO to get all the facts , not just accept the dogma put out by our government. This will , as you have seen , greatly effect you and all other companies nation wide.
Please do some reading, find out the history of cannabis and prohibition , I promise , you will be enlightened.
Therefore I am writing to express my sincere disappointment in Wal-Mart for firing Joseph Casias for using medical marijuana. As a legal medical marijuana patient registered with the state of Michigan, Mr. Casias should not be punished for following his doctor’s recommendation and trying to ease his pain.
As such, I will continue boycotting Wal-Mart stores until you have adjusted your policies to stop discrimination against legal, registered medical marijuana patients.
Wal-Mart is cruel to fire this man and sadistic to try and stop his unemployment and deny him the dignity of a roof over his head and something to eat for him and his family. I am glad they are no longer trying to stop his unemployment benefits. I pray that
MPP will lead the charge in a lawsuit on Joseph Casias’s behalf. I
was disabled because of black racism, not white racism at Wal-Mart. There is a cancer eating away inside Wal-Mart that is hidden from the general public. It’s called racism and it doesn’t matter if it’s white racism or black racism, it’s still racism. Wal-Mart believe that might makes right and has no regard for anyone who works for them. They are an evil corporation. They worship the dollar bill and have no compassion for anyone.
Walmart used to be a good place to work and shop at in the late 80s and early 90s… All corporate stores hold the same attitude about the drug war and marijuana usage.
Face it, this is just the beginning of a LONG fight.
boycott sure, wrong in this situation, yes…but to say they are the reason small business is failing…cmon…if you tax the upper middle class heavily…who exactly goes to the small business’? no one…move along
Norm #28:
It is not a patient’s responsibility to tell their employer what medications they take. The only time this comes up is in the event that a drug test shows you were on a controlled substance. Then the employer has the right to request your documentation for having that substance in your system. If I take Vicondin for pain reief I do not have to disclose this to my employer. This is a mendical treatment that is protected by confindentialitylaws.
Again the point to make here is that Wal-Mart is bound to follow (and they specifically mention this in their Statement of Ethics) State and local laws. The Michigan Medical Marijuana Law was clearly written to protect patients from “disciplinary action by a business” that are in compliance with the Act.
I only bring up the Wal-Mart Statement of Ethics because that was the document that Wal-Mart responded to our emails with. I assume that on the surface they intended to point to the section regarding illict substances and drug abuse, but in the State of Michigan marijuana is medicine so that is really not the section that applies. The say that all “local policy or law[s] must always be followed” and that Wal-Mart has the “responsibility to know all of the local laws”.
What Wal-Mart has done is wrong, and I can’t wait to see this challeged in court.
…firing of Michigan medical marijuana patient Joe Casias…
is too…
I hope this isn’t over. I wanna see wal-mart bleed cash. And if they can’t run thier stores in adherance to the laws of a given state. Then they should not be allowed to operate in that state. Or have we already reached a point where coorperate policy trumps state law?
I think he should sue!!! Walmart needs to learn their lesson. The best way for big buisness’ to learn, is to hit them where it hurts, the profit margin. Maybe if he sues for discrimination then they will make the provisions. Plus I think he would win.
I can’t believe it’s considered acceptable to routinely remove and analyse part of someone else’s body then use that result as a the sole reason to expel or displace them.
This world is sick.
I have convinced my wife to stand with me and never again shop at Wal-Mart. I may pay a little more, but it is a small price to pay.
The laws in this World have to change soon, they have to start working for the average person. Discrimination for the type of medication you take should be a crime. Cannabis is good, Corporate discrimination is criminal, and we shouldn’t let them get away with it if we can help it. ATTENTION Wal-Mart.
My son was let go of Walmart six weeks ago when it was releasing 15,000 employees. It has challenged his application for unemployment. He works and lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
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