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By Doug Cunningham

Workers at a Wal-Mart warehouse in Chicago are announcing a class action lawsuit today alleging that a temporary staffing agency is in essence stealing wages. Tim Bell, lead organizer with the Chicago Workers Collaborative says this is about corporations like Wal-Mart using temp staffing agencies to lower labor standards. He says an organizing campaign is underway at the Centerpoint Intermodal Center in Elwood, Illinois because even though Wal-Mart is the richest corporation in the world, workers who distribute its products are being treated like slaves.

[Tim Bell]: “The organizing campaign seeks to organize temporary staffing workers to raise those standards, with the goal of forcing major companies such as Wal-Mart to own up to the responsibilities to workers and not simply outsource work and lower standards."