March 02, 2004

By: Zi Perry
Website: http://www.1st-in-flags.com

Public outrage forces Wal-Mart into allowing workers to wear flag stickers

Employees at the Sam's Club in Las Vegas Nevada are claiming victory today after Wal-Mart reversed a store policy banning American flag stickers on name badges.

The company had ordered employees to remove the stickers which were provided to the workers by the United Food & Commercial Workers Union. A massive internet email based campaign was launched on September 17 after Sam's Club store #6382 managers began forcing all of its employees to remove small American flag stickers that were passed out by a union to whomever wanted one.

"I was outraged to learn that Wal-Mart employees working at store #6382 were forced to remove flags from their name badges!" said one email letter to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott from Andrea Goldberger in Albany, NY "Although your company markets itself as good for America, I wonder where your allegiance truly lies." The email campaign resulted in massive amounts of emails being sent to both H. Lee Scott CEO of Wal-Mart and the store manager Greg Roberts from customers nationwide.

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Author Notes:

Zi Perry contributes and publishes news editorial to http://www.1st-in-flags.com.  The flags of the world are symbols of recognition full of beauty and color for each country.