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AFL-CIO Supports Black Friday Strikes Against Walmart
NPR ^ | November 28, 2014 | Doreen McCallister

Posted on 11/28/2014 2:44:39 PM PST by mdittmar

The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Bargain hunters heading to Walmart, in addition to looking for holiday deals, may find workers participating in Black Friday Strikes.

Since 2012, Our Walmart, which is an employee labor group, has been staging strikes on the day after Thanksgiving.

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KEYWORDS: aflcio; unions; walmart
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What's an "employee labor group"?
1 posted on 11/28/2014 2:44:39 PM PST by mdittmar
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A Communist front group.


2 posted on 11/28/2014 2:48:48 PM PST by MUDDOG
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Probably a group trying to get a vote.


3 posted on 11/28/2014 2:48:59 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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2014 version of a mob


4 posted on 11/28/2014 2:55:45 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Unions,are struggling with states changing to right to work laws. Membership greatly declining means less revenue, less political power, and increased insignificance.


5 posted on 11/28/2014 2:57:51 PM PST by Sasparilla
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Local Walmart was jammed with shoppers, and no union goons in sight.


6 posted on 11/28/2014 3:00:31 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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They can come full circle, and loot themselves.

This 2 min. youtube video is profound.
It compares the behavior of Black Friday shoppers from 1983 to today.
Imagine what life will be like in thirty years, God help us.

Black Friday 1983 vs. Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=623Oga9NPvE


7 posted on 11/28/2014 3:00:58 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: mdittmar

These people should go out and start their own stores


8 posted on 11/28/2014 3:01:56 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Saw every kind and color of shopper in our Walmart today when I picked up a prescription. If anyone was boycotting, no one noticed.


9 posted on 11/28/2014 3:02:09 PM PST by txrefugee
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They would, I am sure the union wage is “tied” to MW.

Everyone else gets screwed.


10 posted on 11/28/2014 3:11:09 PM PST by mylife
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Labor Unions have become criminal enterprises dedicated to extorting money from earners and businesses.

They are parasitic organisms searching for juicy targets where they can attach themselves and suck out the lifeblood.

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

— Eric Hoffer


11 posted on 11/28/2014 3:16:29 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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I wrote most of my MBA papers on Wal-Mart. This is from memory. Wal-Mart publishes all of their data. In 2005 the average worker started at age 44 and this was their first job. They typically came off welfare. They worked, on average, one year and then quit. The turnover was something like 200k employees per year. This means that Wal-Mart was the jobs training program for the entire country. Before the present outsourced era anybody could get an entry level job in one of the five million or so manufacturing companies that are now gone. You’d work your way up. Since those companies are gone Wal-Mart and to a lesser degree McDonald’s and similar restaurants train our work force for other employment. If those places started paying “a living wage” for entry level work then those employees would not move on to other jobs.

Certainly, our schools don’t train anybody for anything other than gender awareness.


12 posted on 11/28/2014 3:19:43 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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“Unions,are struggling with states changing to right to work laws. Membership greatly declining means less revenue, less political power, and increased insignificance.”

Yes. Yes they are. Especially in Wisconsin.

HOWEVER - Milwaukeestan has a 32% unemployment rate for black males, 18-34 years old. What an amazing pool of future Unionistas that would be!

However, the Unions won’t touch them, or put any money into training them to even be Day Laborers. A good friend has been in Unions for 30+ years. I asked him about this.

He says they don’t show up for work.

Now, ‘splain this to me: available, strong, healthy black males, available to work, yet they won’t? Hmmmm. Which Political Party, which they continue to blindly vote for, trained them in this manner?


13 posted on 11/28/2014 3:21:32 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Membership greatly declining means less revenue, less political power, and increased insignificance.”

The only union membership rolls that are growing, and growing almost exponentially, are the GOVERNMENT Unions. The danger there is palpable. They will NEVER vote to reduce the size and scope of government. Several Chinese dynasties were brought down because of overloaded bureaucracies.

14 posted on 11/28/2014 3:36:31 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“The only union membership rolls that are growing, and growing almost exponentially, are the GOVERNMENT Unions. The danger there is palpable. “

Indeed. We have government union goons writing and enforcing illegal dictates that they write. Only Congress may write law, but who’s paying attention? One of the chief features of both communist and fascist dictatorships is unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats writing law.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. - Thomas Jefferson

And you’re right. These bureaucratic dynasties will be brought down by whatever means necessary.


15 posted on 11/28/2014 3:55:15 PM PST by sergeantdave
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AFL-CIO Supports Black Friday Everyday Strikes Against Walmart
16 posted on 11/28/2014 3:56:54 PM PST by FredZarguna (Jean à de longues moustaches. Je répète: Jean à de longues moustaches.)
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These people are beyond stuck on stupid. They are creating a new frontier.


17 posted on 11/28/2014 4:13:12 PM PST by onona (Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
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NPR will hype any liberal, union or moonbat cause. Free PR on the tax payer dime.


18 posted on 11/28/2014 4:24:29 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: sergeantdave

I’m a proud member. Everyone I see I owe.


19 posted on 11/28/2014 7:00:54 PM PST by glyptol
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unions want to organize walley world.
If a store unionizes walley world simply closes it down.


20 posted on 11/29/2014 3:26:46 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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