Surprise: Wal-Mart attempts to rally its employees against Democratic victory

From that liberal rag, The Wall Street Journal:

Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

By ANN ZIMMERMAN and KRIS MAHER

August 1, 2008; Page A1

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.

In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside for workers if stores were to be unionized.

According to about a dozen Wal-Mart employees who attended such meetings in seven states, Wal-Mart executives claim that employees at unionized stores would have to pay hefty union dues while getting nothing in return, and may have to go on strike without compensation. Also, unionization could mean fewer jobs as labor costs rise.

Not to mention three fewer vacation homes for the CEO. God forbid workers make a living wage. I'd love to see the PowerPoint presentation that goes with this little campaign.

Read the rest here.

Comments

[Liz Stone Abraham]

...and the unions might prevent the managers from such practices as locking their night shift employees in the building. How unfair.

[Liz Stone Abraham]

Also, the idea of a company telling its employees how they should vote is very creepy.

[John Michlig]

We have a local columnist here in Milwaukee - very Ayn Rand - who cites the fact that Wal-Mart let its employees do good works during Katrina as evidence that we should embrace the Wal-Mart ethos. "The government could learn from them," she says.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=778891

(Yeah - she doesn't make much sense to me, either.)

Of course, local and federal government HEAVILY SUBSIDIZE Wal-Mart's growth, so why shouldn't they step up to the plate when a crisis occurs?