25 November 2015, 19:06 UTC-07 Tango 01 (05 Azar 1394/13 Safar 1437/15 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713)
Here in Chubbuck, Idaho, the local Walmart has quietly settled discrimination lawsuits over the years, mostly about work environment connected to ethnic and religious discrimination.
Chubbuck, Idaho, Walmart
According to the U.S. Census Bureau the overwhelming majority of eastern Idahoans surveyed claim to be Mormons. I’ve had problems maintaining steady employment here since 2006 (I moved here in 1996). One day, around 2002, I was told by Jack-Mormon co-workers at the Pine Ridge Mall “You have no right to say anything bad about the Mormon Church”, even though they were constantly ‘bad mouthing’ the very same ‘Mormon Church’ they refused to attend! That was when the mall was still under the original ownership of J. Price Realty.
For a short time in 2004 I worked at the Mormon owned Don Aslett’s Cleaning Center warehouse and was constantly asked about “Why don’t we see you at Ward?” (for those who are not Mormon and never dealt with Mormons, Ward is their term for Church). Once I told them I wasn’t Mormon they literally cut my work schedual down to zero hours saying “we just don’t have the work to keep you busy”, but as the female Mormon manager was telling me this I could clearly see at least three new employees in loading dock area.
One of the current local former front line managers now suing Walmart told me he believed that non-white and non-mormon low level managers were being used as the old fashioned British empire whipping boys (Whipping boys were established in the English court during the monarchies of the 16th and 17th centuries). In other words, all problems in the store were not only dumped on them but were also blamed on them. He told me this before the lawsuit was filed.
But don’t take my word for these claims; the Wal-Mart Litigation Project has documented at least 99 court judgements (final judgements in cases where the retailer did not settle out of court) against the retailer, but, according to Walmart defender Forbes the retailer is hit with an average of 5-thousand lawsuits every year! That’s a lot of cases Walmart is settling out of court.
2015: “The three plaintiffs all worked at Wal-Mart’s Chubbuck store. They allege that they were either fired or forced to quit due to the conduct of defendant Robert Pearson. Their complaint contains six counts against defendants Wal-Mart and Robert Pearson: (1) Race Discrimination; (2) Hostile Work Environment; (3) Retaliation; (4) Family Medical Leave Act Violation; (5) Wrongful Termination; and (6) Americans With Disabilities Act violation.” In this case attorneys are citing examples involving the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
2013: (this isn’t about a lawsuit, but…)“If Walmart welcomes truck drivers they forgot to send that memo to the Idaho stores. None I been to in a 200 mile radius allows truck parking and have signs at all of them saying as much. The Pocatello/Chubbuck store has waged a war on trucks in their lots and have tow services on speed dial.”-‘Haight’ comment on Meet The Employee-Centered Company That Could Eventually Take Down Wal-Mart
2004: (not about lawsuits, but low pay for employees affecting taxpayers) “Employment practices at Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer with relatively lower labor costs in the retail sector, cost California taxpayers about $86 million annually in public assistance to company workers, according to a study by a University of California-Berkeley research institute.”
(this one is about 25-thousand labor violations discovered by an in-house Walmart investigation, the investigation was done in 2000 but not made public until 2004) “An audit by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of about 25,000 employees uncovered thousands of labor violations.… detailed 1,371 violations of child-labor laws, including minors working too late, too many hours in a day or during school hours. On more than 60,000 occasions, workers missed breaks and on 16,000 they skipped meal times, in violation of most state labor regulations.”
Mormon Martial Law: Fascist BYU Idaho bans men’s hairstyle! Proof of false Christians!
Mormons are biggest ‘donors’ to Idaho politicians!
Amy’s-Gate: Mormon leaders of Idaho keep screwing over taxpayers!
Mormon dominated Idaho makes big money off Beer!
New deadlier anthrax spreads across the U.S. from Mormon Utah!
Catholics, Mormons & Jews conspiring or is it just about the money?
A History Lesson in Economic Decline: Pocatello’s Old Fred Meyer & Albertsons on Yellowstone Ave, did not close down in the 1990s
Test score rankings of home educated Idahoans versus traditional schools (yeah, the ones in blue are the homeschooled results). Homeschooling is one reason why taxpayer funded public schools are losing students. According to Idaho Coalition of Home Educators there’s an estimated 7-thousand kids being educated at home, in a state with a total official population of 1.5-million. The reason the number of homeschool kids is an ‘estimate’ is that The Gem State does not have any laws regarding the tracking or even state testing of home educated kids. 
In related news (and something I wish happened when my kids were attending School District 25), a local judge has ruled that West Ada School Board violated the Constitution of Idaho by charging fees. In fact the ruling reveals just about all Idaho public schools are violating the state Constitution: “So we’re hoping that moms and dads will ask these questions about ‘Why are you charging fees when they’re unconstitutional?'”-Russell Joki, West Ada School Board member who actually agrees with the court ruling (don’t forget that 
Possibly in connection, the Center for Public Integrity ranked Idaho ‘lawmakers’ and Courts among the worst in the United States for lack of openness and corruption. 
