Wal-Mart Ordered To Recognize Union; Workers Win Historic Bargaining Order

U.S. Newswire ^ | June 18, 2003 | U.S. Newswire

[Dog]

This is huge.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

You can expect the union fever to spread to the other stores.

[CMClay]

Iknow I'm in the minority here, but I think Unions are good for America. Yes there have been abuses in the past, and they need to stop funding the Dem party, but they help everyone by keeping wages at a living level.
It helped my dad keep food on our table and put us kids through a Christian school.

[Houmatt]

Unbelievable.

As soon as this demand was made three years ago, Wal-Mart should have terminated every last one of them, being Texas is a right-to-work state.

But they did not, and look what happened.

I'd bet they are kicking themselves for not giving them the boot now.

[CyberCowboy777]

So much for Free Enterprise.

America is going to lose more and more in the world markets until will kill unions.

[Husker24]

Good, stick it to those Chinese slave labor using motherfuc*ers!

[whd23]

Poor souls.....

I had the misfortune to belong to the UFCW. During a contract negotiation, the "international" sold out the local in order keep the huge income from the union Health & Welfare fund (the big, bad company was offering to let the union members sign up for the Blue Cross/Blue Shield health plan that the non-union members had). Of course, the Health & Welfare fund did it's best NOT to pay for the health care expenses of the rank and file.

[Dog]

This opens the floodgates in the other stores..

[CyberCowboy777]

Unions have killed manufacturing and will continue to be a primary cause for national trade debt.

[rmmcdaniell]

The judge has ordered Wal-Mart to recognize UFCW Local 540 as the bargaining representative for the meat cutters, and restore the department to its prior structure.

Perhaps our government can also order Wal-Mart to open a computer programming department to give all the out-of-work techies jobs. This is the ultimate cure for unemployment!! Lets have judges go around ordering companies to create new departments to employ people.

[timm22]

I know I'm in the minority here, but I think Unions are good for America.

In this case at least, it's not so much the existence of unions that bother me as it is the state forcing a business to recognize and deal with them.

Workers should have the right of association, and business owners should have the right to control their property as they like. This includes firing workers trying to unionize or refusing to bargain with them.

[ElkGroveDan]

Iknow I'm in the minority here, but I think Unions are good for America. Yes there have been abuses in the past, and they need to stop funding the Dem party, but they help everyone by keeping wages at a living level.

Here's why unions are unnecessary; if you don't like what they are paying you at your job, quit. If you can't afford to quit, then shut up.

You never have to work any harder than you want to, and no one has to pay you anything more than they want. That's what makes America great.

If you want high wages, work real hard and make a reputation for yourself and people will compete for your services.

[Jhoffa_]

My dad was part of the FDR unionite crowd also.. but unions are still wrong in principle.

They punish performance, artificially inflate the cost of things to balance their un-justified and overly inflated salaries and they back it with the force of law. That's wrong and there's no defending it.

Imagine for a moment.. Do you think everyone at McDonalds should be union? Then we can all happily pay $20.00 for a big mac while the lazy unionites are busy building new houses and buying bass boats.

[Husker24]

The judge ordered no such thing, the meatcutters that unionized were already there. Walmart just bought prepackaged meat and transferred the meatcutters to another department to make their Union null and void. It was sleazy.

[Jhoffa_]

You can expect the union fever to spread to the other stores.

Oh yes, big labor isn't going away with manufacturing.. It's going to invade our new "service" economy from top to bottom.

You thought you got bad service before? Just wait till the unionites get through with it.

[CyberCowboy777]

Was it illegal?

[Jhoffa_]

Walmart just bought prepackaged meat and transferred the meatcutters to another department to make their Union null and void. It was sleazy.

It's their right..

Don't like it? Shop at Meijer, they're union.

As for me, I will spend my dollars at WalMart.

[Husker24]

Was it illegal?

apparently a judge must have thought so.

[RichardW]

Someone tell me this. How does any company flatly refuse to bargain with a union if the workers want the union to represent them? Now Texas is a right to work state but what what about other states?

I shop at these stores in Palestine and Jacksonville very frequently. Will be interesting to see what this means.