- May 27, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
Activists and workers descended on the Dollar General ’s
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annual shareholder meeting in Goodlettsville, Tenn. Wednesday to demand better pay and safer working conditions.
Protesters had hoped to go directly into the shareholder meeting, but were turned away because they arrived at its doors approximately four minutes late, even though three of them — including the prominent civil rights and anti-poverty activist Rev. William Barber II — were legally designated as shareholder proxies, according to the Nashville Scene.
Barber shared a video of himself attempting to enter the meeting at Goodlettsville City Hall with his nearly 350,000 Twitter
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followers, saying they “were unjustly and unfairly denied our rightful place” because they advocated for living wages.
“You saw us coming,” Barber told a woman outside of the meeting Wednesday,…
