Posted on 04/21/2015 9:41:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wal-Mart faces a potential labor injunction from a union group asking the company to rehire all 2,200 employees affected by the abrupt temporary closing of five stores a week ago. One affected store, in Pico Rivera, California, has been a hotbed for worker protests against Wal-Mart.
A union is asking labor regulators to go to court to force Wal-Mart to rehire all 2,200 employees affected by the abrupt temporary closing of five stores a week ago.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union filed the charge on behalf of OUR Walmart with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday, arguing the closings were retaliation for labor activism. Wal-Mart says it closed the stores to fix plumbing issues.
One affected store, in Pico Rivera, California, has been a hotbed for worker protests against Wal-Mart. It was the first store to wage such protests, in October 2012. The other stores are in Midland and Livingston, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Brandon, Florida.
"This is a new low, even for Wal-Mart," Venanzi Luna, an eight-year Wal-Mart worker and member of OUR Walmart, said in a statement. "Through OUR Wal-Mart, we're going to keep fighting back until the company gives us our jobs back."
Wal-Mart said in a statement that it does not believe there is any basis for an injunction. "As we have said all along, these stores were closed temporarily so we could fix the ongoing plumbing issues and it would be unfortunate if this outside group attempts to slow this process down for our associates and customers," the company said.
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Aren’t the Waltons big Democrat supporters?
Those Democrats.....they hate money. They just want socialism.
Hahahahahahaha!
My thorw away for the day.
Dear unions.
TOUGH TOENAIL THUGS.
EASD
I’m okay with retaliation against unions, as long as it cannot be proven. Good for WalMart!
Hard to feel for either party. Wal-Mart has embraced the leftist ideology on social issues and put small businessmen out of work, while the unions have hated true capitalism from the get go.
A pox on both houses.
Dead to me too. I hope the “progressives” eat it alive.
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