Summary
Walmart has rolled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, ending DEI training, racial equity programs, and diversity metrics in hiring and supplier decisions.
Employees call the move a betrayal, citing the lack of communication and its impact on marginalized groups.
The rollback has drawn praise from conservatives but criticism from racial equity advocates, including Walmart’s largest workers’ group, United for Respect, which plans to reintroduce a racial equity audit proposal in 2025.
Critics argue the changes mark a major regression for racial and workplace equity at the nation’s largest private employer.
It’s a corporate program. It therefore achieved very little. The short-term situation won’t change much except that the victims no longer have the false comfort of corporate DEI. They’ll need to face the truth: If they wish to protect themselves then they must work together, hopefully forming a union.
I agree with forming a union and not to expect big changes from a Corp, but it’s the second 2 things mentioned that will really harm people.
It’s all bullshit because the corporate compiles the statistics and is responsible for holding themselves accountable. Succinctly, if the statistics don’t support the predetermined narrative then the input data will be cherry picked or outright altered until they do support the narrative. In simile it’s like the police policing themselves.
If there’s more nuanced questions I’ll serve as the grapevine to my mother, a recently retired VP HR, or my wife who’s somehow managed to find a Director of HR role in a NPO where she’s empowered to represent the employee.