In a continuing pattern of naked corruption by the U.S. Supreme Court, it has issued a ruling today that revokes class action status for the gender discrimination suit against WalMart for its misogynistic corporate culture that routinely passed over thousands of women for promotion.
Wal-Mart ruling raises the bar for class actions
If you’re part of a group of employees working for a major U.S. corporation with a gripe about unfair treatment, your collective voices were potentially muffled Monday.
A key attempt to tackle inequality in the U.S. workforce suffered a major blow when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Wal-Mart — with its thousands of stores and millions of employment decisions — was too massive for a group of employees to sue for discrimination using class-action status.
Wal-Mart, according to a 5-4 decision by the high court, is just too big to sue. The court's decision is a direct hit to women seeking parity in particular. Women now make up about half the U.S. workforce and that means no other minority group seeking a class action would likely constitute such a big block of employees at any one employer.
This Supreme Court has behaved like an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a string of pro-corporate decisions, including Citizens United that have put corporations above the Rule of Law.