Washington State - 75,000 current or former Wal-Mart workers in Washington are plaintiffs in a statewide class action against the retail giant.

Set for trial in the spring of 2009, the suit is “the largest wage-and-hour class action ever certified in Washington state,” class counsel Beth Terrell of Tousley Brain Stephens PLLC in Seattle said Friday at a news conference.

“The workers will prove that Wal-Mart failed to pay workers for some of the time they worked and deprived them of legally required meal and rest breaks,” Terrell said. “Wal-Mart’s drive for profits has come at the expense of its low-wage employees.”

She estimated that damages against Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will total tens of millions of dollars in wages wrongly withheld from workers.

In California, plaintiffs won a judgment of about $167 million. A Pennsylvania suit delivered a judgment of $151 million, and a suit is currently being tried in Minnesota.

Learn more by going to www.walmartwageswa.com or by calling 800-705-8543.