Posted on 11/18/2012 11:42:16 AM PST by ColdOne
On Friday, Walmart filed an unfair labor practice charge against UFCW with the National Labor Relations Board to stop what Walmart says are illegal disturbances against its businesses.
A group of Walmart employes, encouraged by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and OUR Walmart, are expected to strike on Black Friday. Black Friday is the store’s busiest day of the year, and this may be the largest strike against the company in its history.
Two groups affiliated with the UFCW -- OUR Walmart and Making Change at Walmart -- have been organizing demonstrations and flash mobs outside of Walmarts.
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walmart supported obama in order to keep obamacare and protect their china suppliers.
there are no good guys in this fight.
Let’s not forte it was 5K strong bakers union that was responsible for the 18K in layoffs because they would take a pay cut. The Teamsters and non-union employees did what they could to save the company.
So I see I’m not the only one screwed by the UFCW. Worked in a Grocery store during college. The only thing the union was good at was protecting the most useless people form getting fired.
Paid dues ($7 something a week) and all I got was a quarterly magazine, which they still send me (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2949239/posts). Also I got the pleasure of having Union reps show up and give me stickers to tell me how great the union is and all the great things it does. They never said what they were.
Once during a contract negation one rep showed up and stared to tell me how eeevil the company was, making money, etc, and gave me a sticker. I asked the rep how he made his six figure salary. That seemed to touch a nerve as he threw a roll of stickers on the floor and walked off.
“I asked the rep how he made his six figure salary. That seemed to touch a nerve as he threw a roll of stickers on the floor and walked off.”
I made it a point every time a union rep tried to talk to me and hand me BS pamphlets was “if it’s good for the working man, why are you making more than the rest of us?”. When I had a grievance, they just ignored me so I made their lives a living hell.
I had better jobs to pay off my tuition fee that did not require forking over my hard-earned dough to these scum. Everything from driver for an escort service to playing bass for a death metal band, I did.
Just fire them.. There will be thousands more happy to have the job.
I just saw a TV commercial by Walmart. It is making their employees come in at 8 o’clock on Thanksgiving night. if I worked there I’d be on strike also. these are the same kind of working conditions that has workers in China jumping off of buildings. low wages no time for family. I won’t shop at Walmart.
No, they don’t have binders a prospective employees. our local Walmart is short handed and having a hard time finding people. I wonder why. 8 dollars an hour and 4 hours a day. the cost of gasoline to get to and from work takes 10 to 20 percent of their daily pay.
I can’t believe the people on here saying this kinda stuff. the American economy depends on people having at least some disposable income. for teenagers getting their first job I can understand elo wage. But a responsible position at the world retailer paying near minimum wage does not help our economy.
and as a conservative it is none of my business what two private parties workout. some of you people would love living in China where they throw you in jail if you try and assemble a group of employees. we are headed to a totally government controlled State and people here are cheering that on
I agree with you. finally some sense in this thread
Sounds like a management/location problem. Local Wal-Mart has faces I recognise from years ago. Some of them stand around smelling shampoo, but still. Asked a guy about the walkout...he says they call other stores if there are any, call in other shifts, and fire the walkouts. See new faces, returned faces...hell. I go in there, I can spend on nothing but American goods, if I choose.
Walmart service has dropped so low I don’t shop there at all. and I don’t want to support them. they are not a good company. maybe at 1 time but not now
Haven’t seen any difference, locally. Which is not to say it’s great. Had a cashier walk away from serving the guy in front of me because he was a little confrontational.
Your minimum wage is $0.80 per hour higher where you live than it is here and your costs of living are much lower. That would likely be part of the difference.
If anything is going to deter me from shopping at Walmart it will be the customers inside rather than the protesters outside.
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