Walmart’s Absurd Anti-Union Training Video Just Got Leaked
Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 12:17 pm
Walmart’s Absurd Anti-Union Training Video Just Got Leaked
BY Lauren Gaynor
On April 13, Walmart suddenly shut down five stores, two in Texas and the rest in California, Florida and Oklahoma. Two thousand two hundred employees were shocked and left unemployed. According to Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik, employees were told that the stores have “ongoing plumbing issues that require extensive repairs.”
As of April 16, Walmart still had not filed for the permits required to fix the plumbing at these stores, sparking speculation that there might not actually be plumbing problems, but trying to clamp down on worker organizing.
On April 20, employees from the Pico Rivera, California, store filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. The complaint was filed on behalf of OUR Walmart, an organization backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers attempting to organize Walmart employees. The complaint states, “Walmart's action was intended to target the Pico Rivera store, which has been the focal point of activity by Associates for better working conditions.”
In a recently leaked Walmart training video, it seems that likely that plumbing might not have been the problem.
The leaked video contains anti-union language and reassures employees that, “Our company prefers to have open and direct communication with our associates—we don’t think that a labor union is necessary here.”
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