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In reply to the discussion: Walmart's 'Worst Nightmare' Competition Has Cashiers And Produce Clerks With $1 Million Pensions [View all]totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)35. One common tactic employed by anti-union forces is the claim that
they don't need a union because their workers already have sufficient pay and benefits. Don't fall for that. Unions are about much more than comparing the wage scale at one company versus another although of course decent living wages are important. And having one non union shop provides momentum for other companies to also be non union.
And regarding the union pickets at WinCo, of course they are informational because since Winco is not unionized, therefore there is no resident union to call a strike in the first place. But as I already said, I would never cross a union picket line and I'm surprised that I am actually reading otherwise at a site like DU. I had thought that support for unions was almost a holy grail at DU but I guess not.
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Walmart's 'Worst Nightmare' Competition Has Cashiers And Produce Clerks With $1 Million Pensions [View all]
marble falls
Aug 2013
OP
In case people miss it in the story, WinCo is an employee-owned company. n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#1
Think about what "invest in success" means. It means that you gamble on their success.
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#38
between this chain, and costco, the evil empire SHOULD be getting a clue, but I doubt it.
niyad
Aug 2013
#3
I suspect they won't notice until the profits start disappearing as a result of their decisions. n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#4
perhaps not even then. they have so much money, would take a long time to filter through.
niyad
Aug 2013
#5
They certainly seem to have a sustainable business model, but they are a supermarket.
MADem
Aug 2013
#6
They're starting to build here in Texas and I will shop there. I swore off Wal-Mart years ago.
marble falls
Aug 2013
#9
It isn't only the cost of processing credit card transactions. Retailers are also paying for the
sueh
Aug 2013
#21
It's employee owned but it's run by a management team. Rank and file employees do not have the same
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#25
My dad was a Teamster organizer and my granfather was a wobbly so I got to see unions from both ....
marble falls
Aug 2013
#39
So you would support a company with a union over a company that paid its workers more ? n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#32
I do my best to only support union shops. And I find it amazing that at a supposedly progressive
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#33
Apparently some here have lost sight of the purpose of a union - it's to help the employees.
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#34