Walmart told greeters around the country that their positions would be eliminated on April 26 in favor of an expanded, more physically demanding 'customer host' role.
Rachel Wasser / AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.As Walmart moves to phase out its familiar blue-vested"greeters" at some 1,000 stores nationwide, disabled workers who fill many of those jobs say they're being ill-treated by a chain that styles itself as community-minded and inclusive.
Walmart says it is striving to place greeters in other jobs at the company, but workers with disabilities are worried. As word spread, first on social media and then in local and national news outlets, outraged customers began calling Walmart to complain. Tens of thousands of people signed petitions. Facebook groups sprang up with names like"Team Adam" and"Save Lesley." A second-grade class in California wrote letters to Walmart's CEO on behalf of Adam Catlin, a disabled greeter in Pennsylvania whose mother had written an impassioned Facebook post about his plight.
"What am I going to do, just sit here on my butt all day in this house? That's all I'm going to do?" Combs asked his sister and guardian, Rachel Wasser."I do my job. I didn't do anything wrong."
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