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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Human Resource Repairs.
Get rid of the union thugs.
good. Serves them right.
Boo hoo! Unions are communist entities that should have been outlawed decades ago.
“Wal-Mart has gotten itself in trouble for similar actions. In June 2014, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Wal-Mart had violated labor laws when it closed a store in Quebec. The employees in that location had voted to join a union. That made it the first unionized store in North America just before the store was closed.”
I wonder what finally happened. In Ontario, a machining company went union and the owner closed the business. The provincial government forced him to go back into business. Isn’t being forced to work against your will the definition of slavery?
Directive 10-289
I think the closings were in response to the union action by employees! I think it was a good move by WalMart, a shot over the bow to all so inclined employees!
I know when their meat cutters started unionizing in stores, they moved all that activity off site and sell only packaged meats here in our area.
The union doesn’t have standing even with the NLRB.
5.56mm
Wal-Mart is dead to me.
The CEO of Wal-Mart threatened the Arkansas governor that he would pull Wal-Mart corporate offices out of Arkansas if the governor dared to sign the Religious Freedom Restoration Act being considered in that state.
It’s one thing for a business being shaken down to contribute to the gay agenda and give lip service to it, but it’s quite another to extort state and local governments on behalf of it.
Union demands caused the Peterbilt assembly plant near Nashville to shut down and move all its assembly to the non-unionized Texas plan. Texas was glad to take the jobs.
It’d be hard to make the case that it’s union busting. One store did have union organizing activity but the other four did not.
I’m surprise if the Livingston and Midland Texas stores
were hotbeds of unionization.
Isn’t Texas RTW?
Unions rarely make much “progress” in those states.
When a building needs plumbing repairs it’s best to take care of them ASAP...
Yes, RTW
Walmart has done some fairly large moves recently, like closing most Denver-area stores at night (Cutting the hours sped), and cutting out an entire level of store management, namely some 15-20,000 “Zone Managers”.
(Key-holders, or supervisors, if you like).
IMO, this has more to do with cutting expenses to cover the announced hourly wage increases, than it does union, or even “plumbing” issues.
Its union busting Jim. :-)
Wait a minute. If the pay is so low and crappy benefits, why don’t they go somewhere else and work?
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