Also, I find it sad that our largest retailer has long been a five and dime. A pathetic statement concerning our lack of prosperity and the ever-increasing chinsiness of our once great nation.

As a union member, though, I do believe that workers have a right to vote secretly and they should not be harassed if they do not want a union. Of course, they should also have the right not to join if there is one. The sticky thing is that nonmembers can enjoy the fruits of contract negotiations anyway…but they can also lose their jobs just like the members if the union bosses get greedy and strike themselves out of jobs. So, I guess it evens out.

Anyone want to bet that the missing phrase goes something like this:

“… the bill because it …”

A totally despicable tactic, but one that unions and liberals are quite used to.

MarkTheGreat on May 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM

Good question, so I looked it up. First of all, the morons failed to get the date of the quote right – it was January 9. Second, MarkTheGreat’s instincts were bang-on. Here’s the full quote (emphasis mine);

“We are against any bill that would effectively eliminate freedom of choice and the right to a secret ballot election,” said a Wal-Mart spokesman, David Tovar. “We believe every associate” — Wal-Mart’s term for employees — “should have the right to make a private and informed decision regarding union representation.”

Jeff on May 8, 2009 at 7:22 PM

I’m in California, there’s a few Wal-Mart supercenters and Target Greatlands popping up but they are obviously running into big resistance from the supermarket unions.

Ehrenreich wrote a recent piece for the L.A. Times, extolling the virtues of groups like Food AND Medicine. This paragraph was particularly amusing:

Is it any wonder there’s no time left over for lobbying for universal health insurance or reading Marxist tracts on the “reserve army of the unemployed”? It’s all a person can do to keep up with the relentless pressures of an imaginary job.

Lest you think she was joking, Discover the Networks informs us:

Candid about her affinity for Marxism, Ehrenreich is the Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America. When the Communist Manifesto was re-released on its 150th anniversary in 1998, Ehrenreich celebrated the event. She noted that in producing the Manifesto as a commercial product, capitalists were — as Lenin had once predicted — providing the rope that eventually would hang them.

That’s why unions force companies to sign PLAs (Project Labor Agreement (agreement to use union labor)) and spend 40% more to buy or build the same item. Interestingly enough the majority of Government work is just union without the fight. So when the taxpayers build that bridge, road, building it’s 40% more. Why, because the unions gave the politicians money for their campaigns.
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4. The unions and politicians care about you in this order:
A. Does it benefit me. Will I get more union dues or finiacial benefit? Even if it screws the worker(s).
*Hello SEIU firing workers to outsource.
*Hello union business agents who work on salary but are FORCED to work 80hrs a week. The same union would file charges against you and the company if you as a worker spent 15 minutes without OT pay. Can I say HYPOCRITE!!!
B. Does it benefit the worker (notice 2nd on the list). Will the employer or tax payer suffer, they don’t care. Then when the business fails it’s the failure of the business not the union–
Ford, GM, Chrysler UNIONS (UAW) are you listening?
*Do you think that a requirement to pay an employee 80% of their salary even though there is no work for them is your part?
*Do you think that having health benefits that are FAR FAR FAR TOO EXPENSIVE for the benefits provided is your part?
C. Does it benefit the business. Can we protect those companies or comittees that support us (dues and contributions).
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Written by a 22 year union member who is disgusted with the ineffective, destructive, lies.

They even said the would be OK with a dictatorship if Walmart would just admit they were one. Why would a union be OK with a dictatorship?

Where did they learn their debating skills? Are these adults?

Walmart customers and workers aren’t stupid. The workers mostly work part time. They know a small pay check taking out union dues will not work.

Same thing happened to supermarket baggers and checkers. The small pay increase they get by being in the union is taken up by the more expensive benefits and union dues. Basically you end up with the same net pay as you would have gotten as nonunion, and higher grocery prices for everyone. Meanwhile the union bosses get nice and rich.

It’s why the supermarket unions out here are trying to demonize Wal-Marts and Targets that are trying to introduce full service groceries. They won’t be able to compete.

1. What is the minimum wage where you work?
2. What is your take home pay?
3. What is the take home pay of the Local’s Business Manager?
4. What is the take home pay of the Union President?
5. See any problems?

Wow, they must be super-efficient if they have time to vote so often while on the job…

Below is the FULL quote from the NYT, it turns out they took out only four words (any bill that would) that completely changed the meaning for anyone not willing to check. I guess they think people are stupid. Of course, this union is actually probably for card check, so that redacted statement is probably their TRUE position on card-check.

Otherwise, it’s just the same-old ends-justifies-the-means BS these desperate unions use every single time. If they would at least be honest, I might give them the benefit of the doubt.

“We are against any bill that would effectively eliminate freedom of choice and the right to a secret ballot election,” said a Wal-Mart spokesman, David Tovar. “We believe every associate” — Wal-Mart’s term for employees — “should have the right to make a private and informed decision regarding union representation.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/us/09labor.html?_r=1&ref=us

Who do you work for? In the PO, it’s not terribly worse than any other huge company. I talk to the UPS and FedEx drivers, and they have a lot of the same complaints about crazy stuff that we do. The biggest problem is when local management tries to do something with the problem carriers, completely within the constraints, Ft Worth almost always overrules them.

…………. what could go wrong?

http://www.foodandmedicine.org/page25.html

food AND medicine May Day celebration. What the heck are they singing, the Internationale?