and what you call merely a "media event" actually had the effect of providing hope and that most reliable old stand-by...strength in numbers, demonstrating to those workers who were afraid to participate that standing up and fighting for their jobs is the only way that they will ever live better.
There is one Walmart in our big rural county, it is a major employer here, and it has used every union-busting tactic in the book to keep its workers down for many years now, with wicked undeserved firings, cutting the hours of long-time employees down to part-time, switching shifts on them, reprimands for incompetence, and not a one of those people were affiliated with any union. If you've ever worked for any non-union company, you would know that just the second they get any whiff of their workers taking a step toward organizing, that sort of hammer always comes down, so whatever strategy the Unions are using within the stores is not really our concern.
These workers' livelihoods are at stake and both the Strike and the Black Friday Protest are an inspiration, showing the simple power of solidarity.
The local action here made it the top of the front page of our little county newspaper. When more than a hundred folk trudge out in the blustering rain on the day after T'day to stand in front of the largest store in the area to protest a draconian employer, that is News!
http://www.goskagit.com/news/wal-mart-workers-in-mv-join-national-protest/article_1b6efb92-35c9-11e2-a56f-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story
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