BERLIN, Vt. -
Wal-Mart was one of the many busy stores on Black Friday but partly for another reason. Some workers threatened to walk out on one of the busiest shopping days in protest of company policies.
Protestors gathered at the Wal-Mart in Berlin, but company employees weren't among them.
It was a fairly small gathering of Occupy Central Vermont members at the Berlin Mall but they still felt they could get their message across.
Occupy members passed out leaflets to Wal-Mart customers Friday morning spreading their talking points about the company's low wages and what they call small business killing policies.
"If there's ever an occupy issue this is an occupy issue," Occupy member Marie Countryman said.
And this was the best day to spread their ideas.
"This is a big, big shopping day and we can reach more people and put a little more pressure on Wal-Mart," Occupy member Jay Moore said.
This scene played out at Wal-Mart's all across the country in coordination with United Food and Commercial Workers Union and OURWal-Mart.
At the Berlin Mall store no Wal-Mart employees were part of this line of protesters.
"Mostly we're here to raise consciousness with the Wal-Mart workers the really brave Wal-Mart workers that did walk out," Countryman said.
The Berlin Wal-Mart manger said the national company wouldn't allow an interview but one employee who spoke before she went on shift said she didn't really care that people there were protesting on behalf of Wal-Mart workers. But the Occupy members said some are still interested.
"We had at least one Wal-Mart employee come out and get a leaflet and bring it back in," Countryman said.
