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Labor groups file complaint against Wal-Mart

(The following story by Steven Greenhouse appeared on the New York Times website on August 14.)

NEW YORK The A.F.L.-C.I.O and three other pro-labor groups will urge the Federal Election Commission on Thursday to rule that Wal-Mart acted illegally by warning many store managers and department heads that a Democratic victory in November would hurt the company by helping workers unionize.

The pro-labor groups plan to file a complaint with the commission on Thursday asserting that Wal-Mart warned so vigorously that the Democrats would enact pro-union legislation that the company had engaged in illegal express advocacy.

The pro-labor organizations including the Change to Win Federation, American Rights at Work and WakeUpWalMart.com argue that federal regulations make it legal for companies to engage in such political advocacy with high-level managers, but not with low-level managers like Wal-Marts department heads, who are often hourly employees.

The complaint, which is scheduled to be filed at 11 a.m. Thursday, states, There is reason to believe that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has made prohibited corporate expenditures by expressly advocating against Senator Obamas election to employees who were not high-level managers or professionals.

In their complaint, the four groups cite an article in The Wall Street Journal, which said that Wal-Mart, the worlds largest retailer, was mobilizing its store managers and department heads around the country to warn that if the Democrats win, they are likely to enact a law that makes it easier for workers to unionize Wal-Mart and other companies.

At those meetings, Wal-Mart officials warned that the Democrats would enact the Employee Free Choice Act, which is expected to make it far easier for workers to unionize by requiring companies to recognize a union as soon as a majority of employees at a worksite sign cards saying they want a union. Under current law, companies have the right to insist on a secret-ballot election to determine whether employees favor a union, but labor leaders say that such elections are often unfair because many companies intimidate workers and fire union supporters during election campaigns.

After the article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, David Tovar, a Wal-Mart spokesman, responded that the company in no way broke federal election laws in holding those meetings with its managers and department heads.

In an interview on National Public Radio, Mr. Tovar said: We feel educating our associates about the bill is the right thing to do. If anyone representing Wal-Mart gave the impression we were telling associates how to vote, they were wrong and acting without approval.

The Wall Street Journal article quoted an unnamed customer service supervisor from Missouri who said: The meeting leader said, I am not telling you how to vote, but if the Democrats win this bill will pass and you wont have a vote on whether you want a union.

I am not a stupid person the supervisor continued. They were telling me how to vote.

Wal-Mart, like many other companies, argues that the Employee Free Choice Act would be undemocratic because many workers would be denied the option of casting a secret ballot on whether they want to unionize.

Wal-Mart, which has 1.4 million employees nationwide, has a reputation for fighting fiercely against unionization efforts. Wal-Mart officials say that store managers are told to comply with the law when they battle against unionization drives, although labor leaders cite numerous National Labor Relations Board decisions finding concluding that Wal-Mart had improperly fired union supporters or engaged in other illegal anti-union tactics.

For years, Wal-Mart has been intimidating and harassing its workers who want to form unions, said Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of American Rights at Work, a union-financed advocacy group. Now theyve adapted their union-busting tactics to influence our federal election system.

Change to Win is a federation of seven unions, including the Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers, that broke away from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. WakeUpWalMart.com is a pro-union group financed by the food and commercial workers that has repeatedly accused Wal-Mart of providing inadequate wages and benefits.

Thursday, August 14, 2008



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Ya gotta wonder what the fuck they are thinking. A company that makes $12 billion a year in profit, and repels unions. It's a shame that our own U.S. companies are the ones making America weak...

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And hundreds of thousands of union families shop at the fucking place.

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Snippy wrote:

And hundreds of thousands of union families shop at the fucking place.



Some smaller towns where WalMart reigns, people have no choice, since Wally World cut their prices so low, they forced out mom and pop places.

I went to buy a new barbeque grill yesterday, so I decided to visit the local hardware store instead on Home Depot. I still couldn't find ONE grill that wasn't made in China.

What the hell can we do?

 



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