Civil rights leader Barber presses Walmart to ‘uplift’ employees during shareholders meeting

“Perhaps thousands of your workers suffered with this disease, spread it to family members, or had to endure terrifying isolation, gasping for breath, all because they were too poor to stay home from work, too afraid of retaliation to get the time off, too beaten down by this system to be truly supported by this company and by our government in this dire hour for our nation,” said Barber, chair of the Poor People’s Campaign.