Wal-Mart, $640 in back wages, would never have happened if the employees were represented by a union

[Omaha Steve]

http://anti-union.blogspot.com/2009/01/wal-mart-640-in-back-wages-would-never.html



Monday, January 19, 2009

Had the employees of Wal-Mart been represented by a labor union, the company wouldn’t be forced to pay $640 million in back wages to employees who were cheated out of that money. It never would have happened. Period.- David Macaray


I've noticed that Wal-Mart has been pushing it's advertisements every 10 minutes or so here in New York, could it be the Black Friday death at the local Valley Stream store? Or could it be the fact that unbeknown to many, Wal-Mart got caught cheating it's employees out of $640 million US dollars and quietly settled without much ado.



Good olde' Wal-Mart, it wouldn't want any bad publicity , but our friend David Macaray has posed this note, that the very employees that Wal-Mart brain washes into their team mentality would have never gotten ripped off if they were represented by a union, so heres a clip from a David Macaray article at CounterPunch called "The Economics of Cheating: Wal-Mart Caught Stealing" from 1/9-11/09:

But there’s one thing we can be absolutely certain of. Had the employees of Wal-Mart been represented by a labor union, the company wouldn’t be forced to pay $640 million in back wages to employees who were cheated out of that money. It never would have happened. Period.

Things in the workplace fall through the cracks all the time; they get dismissed, put off, overlooked, rescheduled, piled up, mishandled, etc.. But in a union shop, no one—and that means no one—fails to get paid. You can ask union people to work harder, to work safer, to work quicker; you can ask them pretty much anything, and they’ll do it. Just don’t ask them to work for free.


FULL story at link.

[DainBramaged]

1. 1/3 of those participating in a very recent DU poll still shop at Wal*Mart

As long as they get theirs............:eyes: (edit correection, no lights blown bulb)

[zorahopkins]

2. That Is So Unexcusable!

That is just unexcusable.

And it is very very sad, too.

[DainBramaged]

3. Here. I know, but DU has changed. People don't care any more

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4856236&mesg_id=4856236

[Obamanaut]

5. In my small town with a walmart and two other stores (for groceries)

there is no other store for a lot of items - men's, children's, baby clothing and shoes; many household items such as linens, a multitude of department store items. West from my town the next one with stores is about 50 miles, north is 65, east is 25 and it's another small but slightly larger town, and 65 miles south of that is a real town with a multitude of choices and even several large malls.

I am not going to drive a 50 mile round trip for a 3 pack of Hanes or Fruit of the Loom. I do not have that degree of "Left-o-Mania." I have an American car, because we have a Ford dealership and I like Ford/Mercury products. But I will not get all frothy at the mouth because people shop at WalMart. That's just the way it is.

[Omaha Steve]

6. Mail order clothes MADE IN THE USA

It does save you from driving and puts your $ back to work in the US economy. They do have undies. :-)

http://www.unionlabel.com/

[Obamanaut]

7. I already get a lot of things via internet ordering. I even posted

recently in two different threads links to 'made in USA' lists.

I would not make a special trip anywhere for one package of skivvies, that was an example. We have a list on the refrig door, and as the last of an item is opened, that item goes on the list for replacement. When we go to the store, we get several of everything on the list. We are a frugal pair at my house, with enough canned goods for at least a month, including different types of canned meat (tuna, chicken, corned beef etc), with a whole freezer full of frozen veg and meats.

But the fact remains, not everyone in this county can stock up the way we do. Not everyone can afford to go elsewhere for their purchases.

[Lucian]

4. Some of us have to shop at Walmart.

We aren't as rich as you are to shop at Whole Foods. :eyes:

I suggest you get off your high horse and show some compassion for those less fortunate than you are.

[DainBramaged]

8. Nice assumption, I have NEVER shopped at Whole Foods, but shop at Target

for everything but fresh food, and at Shop Rite in NJ for fresh.

Oh, "Click". X

I have no patience with people who ride their own high horse.

[Lucian]

9. ...

:rofl:

:eyes:

[tuvor]

12. Target is anti-union, too, aren't they?

[Pastiche423]

13. I live below the US poverty level in a rural area

Yet I do not and will not shop at walmart. It's called living by your principles.

walmart put many mom and pop stores out of business when they came in. In doing so, it put many of my fellow citizens out of a job.

I will not reward them.

P.S. I've never shopped at Whole Foods.

[Lucian]

16. There's one "Mom and Pop" store here...

but they charge (almost) twice as much for groceries as Walmart does. I also live below the poverty line and I cannot afford to pay twice as much for groceries, no matter what my principles are.

[Pastiche423]

17. Where do you live?

[tomreedtoon]

18. Thank you, Tillion, for trying to talk sense to DainBramaged.

Impossible as that act may be, since he doesn't live in the real world any more than Bush does, you made a valiant effort.

I do not choose to shop at Wal-Mart, but sometimes (like at 3 AM when you need an extension cord) I have no choice. Neither do some very poor people I have as friends, for whom it's either the Wal-Mart price or they go without. Ideological purity, such as DainBramaged has, quite often runs into the brick wall of reality.

Oh, he also wants us to buy crappy American cars just because they are American. He doesn't want us to choose by value, only point of manufacture. He doesn't realize such jingoism means that American cars will continue to get worse and worse.

[MisterP]

10. do not criticize the savior of the poor!

smash Confucian elitism and Muscovite-running-dog Lin-Biao-Thought!
:sarcasm:

[Joanne98]

11. You know what I've never understood. Why the stores they compete with don't turn them in.

Remember when Walmart was making people clock out and work overtime for free. That was around the time win Kmart almost went bankrupt. They ended up merging with Sears but there stock went down to 5$ a share. It was bleak for them. And they were competing against a store who was making people work for free. Why doesn't Kmart, Target, Cosco and Wholefoods get together and file some kind of anti-trust lawsuit against them. Is there some kind of secret oath they take to not rat on each other or what? I don't get it.

[lonestarnot]

14. Yeah and I'm sure a Union would have let you nutfuckers lock employees in after quitting time!

[Omaha Steve]

15. Just a few months ago W Mart asked employees to vote Republican in ALL elections local state & fed

And still the Democrats shop there. Amazing.