Employees Revolt Against Wal-Mart, Target

Today, the Supreme Court tossed out a class action gender discrimination lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Stores.

“The court did not decide whether Wal-Mart had in fact discriminated against the women, only that they could not proceed as a class,” The New York Times writes. The decision puts an end to what the story calls “the largest employment discrimination case in the nation’s history.”

While the Supreme Court decided it couldn’t proceed, there are still repercussions in the court of public opinion.

“This decision is about fairness, about the world’s largest private employer paying over a million women less than their male counterparts — and while it is certainly a setback, we will continue fighting,”,” Rep.