Critics: Walmart Protests Lack Actual Walmart Employees

freebeacon.com ^ | November 25, 2013 | Bill McMorris

[grundle]

Union front groups are planning more than 1,500 protests at Walmarts nationwide on Black Friday despite lacking significant support from actual employees, critics say.

The Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), a self-proclaimed subsidiary of the United Food and Commercial Workers retail union (UFCW), says it will picket 1,500 stores the day after Thanksgiving, one of the largest shopping days of the year.

“Associates do stick together and look out for each other. We have to because Walmart and the Waltons seem to be fine with the financial struggles that we’re all facing,” Colorado Walmart employee Barbara Gertz said in an OUR Walmart release. “We’re are all in the same situation, one that Walmart creates by paying us poverty wages.”

Gertz appears to represent a small minority of Walmart’s 1.3 million employees. OUR Walmart’s 2012 Black Friday protest featured thousands of demonstrators, but less than 50 actual associates, according to the company. Labor watchdogs expect more of the same this year, especially because the worker center keeps focusing on the number of protests, rather than the number of employee dissidents.

[SunkenCiv]

Hmm, just like the astroturf conspirators against the Washington Redskins. Thanks grundle.

[GOPJ]

Union guys don’t usually work for the crap wages paid to dem ‘protesters’. If we had any real newspapers left they could send a reporter in to see if any of the protesters are either union OR walmart employees.

Well, other than the three ‘organizers’ who are on a union clock... not the $10 bucks and hour these gigs pay.

[GOPJ]

Union guys don’t usually work for the crap wages paid to dem ‘protesters’. If we had any real newspapers left they could send a reporter in to see if any of the protesters are either union OR walmart employees.

Well, other than the three ‘organizers’ who are on a union clock... not the $10 bucks an hour these gigs pay to the shills.

[TheOldLady]

"Colorado Walmart employee Barbara Gertz said in an OUR Walmart release. 'We’re are all in the same situation, one that Walmart creates by paying us poverty wages.'"

Here's a news flash for you, moron. Companies pay their employees what the work is worth to the company. If you're such a useless employee that you can only earn poverty wages,
that is not the fault of Wal★Mart, but your own. Go and get another job where your skill set matches the company's needs, and leave Wal★Mart alone, you jealous commie jerk.

Full disclosure, I am no great fan of Wal★Mart, but they do have the right to pay what the labor is worth. If they pay more, they will soon be out of business. Example: Our federal
government has paid a lot more than the value of what they got for our cash, and the entire country is about to crash.