This should be unbelievable, but it’s totally in character for them. If there is one company in the US whose employees need to be unionized, it would be Wal-Mart.
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.
Of course, this is all due to the Employee Free Choice Act, and the article certainly makes it seem like the corporation is trying to use scare tactics against their employees to encourage them to vote Republican because, if Obama is elected they “won’t have a choice” if they unionize or not.
Despicable.
What WalMart doesn’t get is that it wouldn’t have to worry about it’s employees unionizing if they treated them well. I don’t agree with the Dems on union proliferation, but I agree with you, locickal, that WalMart’s actions are once again despicable and unethical. Who are they trying to kid, saying “we aren’t telling them how to vote… they are acting without approval.” WalMart’s management practices are a relic. They are stuck in the 1950’s. I don’t shop at WalMart because of it. Their employees are miserable, the store is disgusting and depressing. I feel like I’m in a communist country when I go into their store. Only in that country, WalMart is the government. Perhaps that’s one of WalMart’s goals as well.