Newscast Script

Hey this is a newscast that we made about the Wal-Mart sexism case that was taken to the supreme court back in 2011 but was first made back in 2000.
            Welcome back. Is Wal-Mart, one of America’s biggest corporations, being sexist to its female workers? A group of over a million women workers have clam that they were being paid less because of their sex. Christine Kwapnowski, one of six women named as a plaintiff in the case, says that she was passed over for promotion and higher pay for her male colleagues. We were able to talk to one of the women leading in the case and she said that the case was a milestone in sexism. Other legal experts agreed with the women.

            The group sued Wal-Mart back in 2000 but the case had only appeared in the Supreme Court in March 27 in 2011. The case was a long and hard battle but to no avail. Wal-Mart won the case 5-4 and the world’s biggest discrimination case was thrown down. The case was and still is very controversial for multiple reasons. The major one was a report came out about how the Supreme Court is supposedly bias against common people and usually rule in favor of large corporations. One of the plaintiffs was told Wal-Mart pays men more because “they have families to support”.

            The case’s lose will be a major setback for people to rise against sexual or racial discrimination in big businesses around the world. Even now we are all watching as others suffer from these stereotypes and discriminations. We have to make a difference and make sure that every day someone you know isn’t being hurt by these. Wal-Mart was a major case yet the Supreme court voted to make it in favor of the corporation. Every heard of “to big to fail?” Well Wal-Mart is “To big to sue.”

Citations

Wal-Mart ‘Sexism’ Case Before US Supreme Court. (2011, March 29). BBC News. Retrieved February 26, 2012, from http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/29-3

Flanders, Laura. (2011, June 21). The Supreme Court’s Free Pass on Sexism for Wal-Mart. Guardian.co.uk. Febuary 27, 2012, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica /2011/jun/21/walmart-women-class-action?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Ruse, Dominic. (2011, March 27). Walmart sex discrimination case goes before Supreme Court. Guardian.co.uk. Febuary 27, 2012, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/mar/28/walmart-sex-discrimination-case-supreme-court?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487