Group Creates Wal-Mart Workers Association

An advocacy group critical of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will start a workers association to help employees of the world’s biggest retailer improve their working conditions.

Wake-Up Wal-Mart, funded in part by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, announced the creation of Wal-Mart Workers of America.

The workers association follows the union’s previous unsuccessful attempts to organize workers at individual Wal-Mart stores in the United States.