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Wal-Mart Employees Protest ‘Reforms’
Believe it or not, it seems that workers can actually take care of themselves, that they do not need legislation to ‘protect’ them against, well, everything and – incredible enough – not even the backing of a union.
H/t ‘Interested’
16 Responses to “Wal-Mart Employees Protest ‘Reforms’”
You can’t walk out when the doors are locked. They are lucky that Pinkerton goons didn’t beat them when they walked out.
MvdG – Does WalMart have a presence in Holland. The market forces in Germany chased them out.
Aldi=good
WalMart=bad
Aldi has a presence in Michigan, I’ll shop there before i give my money to China and the Waltons.
Actually it would seem this is a case of two managers how don’t need legislation or unions to protect them.
I give it six weeks tops for those two managers to discover the wisdom of that particular decision.
Oops.. “who” not “how”
If they were in Basra they would have holes drilled in their heads forsuch secular beliefs.
… and a union is born.
Rudi,
What gives you the false assumption that Aldi’s products aren’t made in China
Maybe the more nationalistic shopping habits in Europe. Why did Wal-Mart fail in Germany?
They’re lucky there are no Miller Road Bridges in Florida. Maybe the ghost of Henry Ford will possess…..
Wal-Mart was stupid to believe they could compete with well entrenched retailers like MetroAG, Aldi, and Lidl(just to name a few). By the way, Aldi’s products are made in China. Just look it up.
But I believe that the Michigan chain Meijer’s has some stores in Germany. They have a more Moderate record with employees and work issues.
Read the story closely –
First, Wal-mart did not retract 2 of the 3 things the employees were protesting against, and the one where a computer randomly generates your work time seems crazy to me.
Second, what is a “union” if not for a group of employees who work together to get favorable employment practices? I agree that many unions go to far and make their industry uncompetitive and use legislation to gain an unfair bargaining status, but if all these employees want is a little common sense, I can’t begrudge them that. But they do have the backing of a union — their own.
Finally, Wal-marts record of busting anything resembling a union apparently has not been exercised yet (or was not written about in this article), and I would guess that in a few days or weeks the managers and employees will be summarily pressured to meet their demands.
the story of these people and Wal Mart is not over, and I would put money on Wal Mart getting what it wants.
Meijer only operates in five states in the U.S. with no operations in Europe. Aldi, owned by reclusive billionaire Theo Albrecht (the 22nd most wealthy person in the world) is not known for good labor practices. Oddly, Aldi also owns the more upscale Trader Joe’s which is known for good labor practices.
‘Twould be a real shame if people had freedom to associate with whomever they like, such as their coworkers.
Mikey:
You’re exactly right! Workers don’t need no stinking government or unions to protect them. Look at history and how well they’ve been treated. Of course these workers crossed the line and need to be fired. Like you’re pointing out those pesky child labor laws and overtime and all the rest really hurt our ability to compete. Fortunatly we are still pro capitalist and the real wages for the lowest paid have fallen over a third for the stupid uneducated morons while important jobs like stock broker and conservative radio commentator pay more.
Repuplicans understand this, they understand the people and what minorities want, they know poor people’s values.
Take a gander of this ad.
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“If you make a little mistake with one of your ‘hos,’ you’ll want to dispose of that problem tout suite, no questions asked,” one of the men says.
“That’s too cold. I don’t snuff my own seed,” the other replies.
“Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican,” the first man says.
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This really capures minority values just like this one shows Democrats are Kluxers just like Holly proved they are all anti semitic because a half dozen of them didn’t completely support Israel in teaching Lebanon a lesson.
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Another spot attempts to link Democrats to a white supremacist who served as a Republican in the Louisiana Legislature, David Duke.The ad makes reference to Duke’s trip to Syria last year, where he spoke at an anti-war rally.
“I can understand why a Ku Klux Klan cracker like David Duke makes nice with the terrorists,”a male voice in the ad says. “What I want to know is why so many of the Democrat politicians I helped elect are on the same side of the Iraq war as David Duke.”
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See this proves the KKK really supports Bill Clinton. Blacks didn’t know this because the MSM is racist and because blacks are too ignorant to listen to Rush.
MvdG,
This has only begun. Wal-Mart will retaliate. It may take them a while to figure out how to get away with it without alienating the community but they will do it. The article noted how they closed down a store in Canada whose employees crossed them. In addition when their meat cutters tried to unionize they eliminated the meat department, firing every one of the meat cutters in every store. They don’t stand for being crossed.
The attitude of Wal-Mart and those like them shows what I consider to be one of the great failures of the worshippers of the free market. They assume completely rational, well thought out economic reasons for doing everything in business. They completely ignore greed, avarice, ego and manias for power and control.
Jim S – Your last paragraph is spot on, this is why reasonable regulation is needed. Regulation protects both the consumer and corparations from greed, avarice,ego…..
Free markets without any oversight allows for Enron and the 1980 Millken bond fraud.