Wal-Mart is panicking, warning managers if the Dems win.
Leave it to Wal-mart to pull a stunt like this. They HATE unions ! Wal-mart is so cheap, they will do just about anything to keep wages down. Wal-mart founder, Sam Walton rolled in his grave a million times the way his spoiled kids are running the show.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.
In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside for workers if stores were to be unionized.
According to about a dozen Wal-Mart employees who attended such meetings in seven states, Wal-Mart executives claim that employees at unionized stores would have to pay hefty union dues while getting nothing in return, and may have to go on strike without compensation. Also, unionization could mean fewer jobs as labor costs rise.
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Wal-Mart will be in lots of
Wal-Mart will be in lots of trouble from the stagflationary collapse soon, too.
Wal-Mart, mind you, is the only SOLID large American corporation extant, aside from energy companies--we have no manufacturing base left, computer industry is moving to Asia, and tourism, restaurants, and grocery chains are dependent on loose consumerism. If Wal-Mart topples, the whole system will come crashing down.
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poor wal-mart...
Why do our douche bag politicians continually target successful capitalist ventures??
Wal-mart provides tons of good at low prices to millions of middle and especially lower class people who would be much worse off without wal-mart around.
It is crazy how these prick politicians can twist people's minds around into believing that they are good and business is bad.
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why can't walmart just say..
why can't walmart just say.. were not union.. and then hire only non union labor? with unemployment starting tick up huge, they will be able to find many people who would love to just have a job!
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Wal-mart has legitimate concerns.
The problem is not unions per se, but that unions get special privileges from the government which prevents competition. The FDR administration passed abominable and unconstitutional regulations which allowed union monopolization and hurt businesses. Obama is in the same vein as FDR, an anti-capitalist pro-socialist.
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The people that mainly
The people that mainly complain about wal-mart I find are the ones that can afford to shop elsewhere. People go to Wal-mart because they like what they provide- simple as that- if you closed down the wal-mart in our area- people wouldn't be so happy.
If they want to kill the working poor....
...then WalMart, in kahoots with the big banks/Wall Street will get Obama-lama-ding-dong in office. Strike up the unions, murder the take-home pay and we're right back to Kings & serfs...just like they've been planning all along.
My point is, don't believe ANYTHING that comes from a press release.
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But, but , but...
Hillary used to be on WalMart's board of directors.
The Democrat Los Angeles city council recently passed an ordinance prohibiting construction of new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area inhabited by 500000. No more fast and cheap restaurant choices for those people. Chicago Democrats have tried to similarly prevent Chicago residents from saving money at WalMart.
'noblesse oblige' - the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.
Reagan
Killed the Unions when the air traffic controllers were not allowed to strike. Dead!
I am not a fan of Wal-Mart but
I also I'm not a fan of many unions. What many of the unions have become is a shame.
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I really dislike Sprawlmart- really.
I don't and won't shop there.
However, I equally dislike the National Labor Review board. It is so unfair and criminally biased against employers. It's an absolute sham, as is forced collective bargaining. Thanks comrade Roosevelt...
Unfortunately many of these unions are just as oppressive as the opponents they claim as their adversaries.
I don't get all the hatred
I don't get all the hatred towards WalMart. If people don't like working there, they can go work somewhere else. If people don't like the ethics that WalMart uses, they can shop somewhere else. That's the beauty of free markets. You can vote in ways other than just at the voting booth.
I see so many people on the DP who are anti-rich/corporations. It sounds like an Obama site sometimes. Without the rich far fewer people would have jobs. Keep that in mind the next time you feel like lambasting the *evil, greedy corporations*.
Also, go do some research on unions. They ain't what they used to be, that's for sure.
Over 1 billion in subsidies to walmart!
Most Monopolies are created through government intervention, subsidies and regulations. Walmart is not a result of the "free market". Which doesn't even exist today.
Wal Mart's MO
They move into a town and undercut all the prices until all the mom and pop shops are out of business, then they start raising prices and treating employees worse and worse. They have lost lawsuits for doing it, but it works so well they can afford the lawsuits. "Free markets" simply cannot be "free" in this fascist environment.
Truth exists, and it deserves to be cherished.
Wal-Mart
Apparently, there is a video on Jib Jab about how they conduct business and help destroy this country. If anyone has a few minutes to find the video, that would be nice to share. A friend told me it was on there.
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hasn't happened here
The local progressives were all up in arms about this MO, as you say, when Walmart came to town. I have not heard or read of any local store going out of business because of them. Walmart has become known to sell crap at slightly discounted prices and that's it.
I never heard of a Wal-mart
I never heard of a Wal-mart that has high prices and treats its employees badly. Mom and Pop shops going out of business isn't a bad thing if customers are getting cheaper products from wal-mart.
Well..yes and no. If a
Well..yes and no. If a mega-retailer is able to so easily shut down Main Street, USA, it indicates that our "free market" economy isn't very free. It's overregulated and favors large multinationals over small business.
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There is a small town in GA....
It is 45 minutes away from a decent sized city. The larger city has three Wal-Marts, as well as other types of stores competing.
The smaller city, which is considered to be a poor city by every measure (I happen to love the place) has only one Wal-Mart, and very little in terms of stores that might in any way compete with Wal-Mart (Wal-Mart shut 'em all down early on).
Care to guess which Wal-Mart in the above scenario carries an across the board 25-35% price hike on it's products when compared to the other Wal-Marts?
The price cannot be justified because of lower volume, because the poor town produces more volume for that Wal-Mart, easily. It's merely that they know they have that town by the balls.
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I get what you mean...
But you are missing an important distinction. Corporations are NOT wealthy people. I love Buffet, and even Gates on most days... :) Envy, respect and admire them.
A corporation on the other hand is a much different thing and is dangerous to our health. It was never intended to exist in our system of government, it snuck in on the pretext of ending slavery. Via an amendment to the constitution that was designed to give newly freed slave protection. It was only used a handful of times to protect slaves, however, it has been used literally millions of times to protect corporations.
In effect, it gives what was property, rights as a human being. A corporation has no conciense, no sense of right and wrong, will commit murder and worse (and yes, there is worse) purely based on cost/benefit for fines.
All people have the rights protected by the constitution.... But so do corporations, and that is where the danger comes in. They are not people. They have all the rights without any of the responsibilities.
Corporations prior to the amendment were limited co-ops designed to perform some common public good/work and were always limited in scope and in fact, the ones who ran the corp were held responsible for their corporations actions. Which is much different than it is today.
http://www.thecorporation.com
Moore does have a SMALL cameo, but ignore the putz because the rest of the movie is excellent, factual, and correct.
In addition, our government has just proved the "too big to fail" approach now being taken. This means, that you CAN'T vote with your dollar against the corps that really matter.
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Nice way to get your
Nice way to get your employees to vote Dem huh? That will be the result. If Walmart employees want a union, in a free society, they should be able to determine that themselves.
Check out the doc film "Walmart: The high cost of low prices".
A large number of Walmart employees are told to go on state medical assistance because the wages they pay can't cover their health plan.
After seeing this film, your shopping habits might change.
Greedy...
bast@rds! I guess that this is just a way to try to get their employess in line so that they can be exploited and become their next slave labor force, not in China, but here in the U. S.!
Was just thinking
Do you guys think that since all these bubbles especially houses that its too expensive to live with a walmart job? So is it walmarts fault? Luckily I bought my house a decade ago and don't owe much myself so I could pay my bills with a walmart job. If the average house in the us is what 200k or was that takes one hell of a job or 2. So again is it wallyworlds fault? I hear the benefits suck, but as far as wages? Personally I prefer to have my stuff cheap>
A friend of Wal-Mart is a
A friend of Wal-Mart is a friend of China.
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Things are only impossible until they are not.
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FYI about Wal-Mart
I read an article on line that said:
CHENY is part owner or some how connected to Wal-Mart......not surprised!
Wal-Mart also standardized the BAR CODE.
They also require a RFID on all pallets, and soon or now require it on all items.
Then everything will have a RFID because of Wal-Mart's standard.
I hate Wal-mart too. But
I hate Wal-mart too. But not for their bad wages. I hate them for what they do in other countries. Its how they get their prices so low.
They have a foreign policy that includes genocide.
However, if their stores all unionized. It would mean fewer jobs, and more unemployment.
If those wages are what the market calls for, then so be it. But, the wages they do give wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt for all the inflation of the dollar.
Wal-mart is an evil company. But not because of their low wages.
Can you tell us what they do
Can you tell us what they do in other countries? Do you mean open up factories and providing jobs where there was none before?
Wal-Mart
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I had the unfortunate
I had the unfortunate pleasure of working at Walmart as a college job. I remember when a union threatened to protest in front of our store and there was a fear that they would get some employees to push for a vote on whether or not to unionize the store.
Walmart flew in someone from corporate to show every single employee a video on how evil unions are. I was a young pup at the time, but if I was my present self back then, I would of given hear an ear and a half full.
One store near me actually did unionize. You know what Walmart did after that? They shut the store down.
Yup ! They really did.
Was this the one in Canada? Wal-mart is so huge and powerful, they can afford to close a store, and just write it off as a bad investment.
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I really hate walmart...
I really hate walmart...