Wal-Mart WORKERS vote to reject unions, better wages & benefits.

[UdoKier]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/4231767/detail.html


What struck me about this was the link on Sludge's page to this story uses Wal-Mart's Orwellian term for its workers, calling them "Associates".

I hate Matt Drudge, and I hate corporate scum who come up with deceptive words like that. If you're going to call them "associates" PAY them like executives, dammit. If you're gonna give them slave wages without benefits, call them workers for christ sake.

Anything to destroy worker solidarity with these people....

[izzybeans]

1. Secondend.

Was this an internal touch screen poll by chance? edit to add:puke:

[papau]

2. ING INS sub Bankers Ins NY did the same back in 85 - got hold of the

list of those signing up for the union- 6 months later very few still had jobs -

Told NRLB "what list?" - and insisted turnover was just a little higher than usual. NRLB never even visited the site!


FROM THE ARTICLE
<snip>The worker who pushed for the vote said he has been harassed by other Wal-Mart employees.

"When I rolled into the polling area, an associate actually harassed me and threatened to beat me up and he's actually a Wal-Mart's 'observer,'" said Josh Noble, the Wal-Mart employee who led the effort to unionize.

The union also accuse Wal-Mart of adding workers to the Tire & Lube operation to dilute the strength of union support.

In November, nine of the 17 workers at the tire and lube department signed a petition asking for the opportunity to vote on union representation. But some of the workers have left the company and others apparently changed their mind in the past three months.

"There's been a tremendous amount of harassment, a tremendous amount of bullying, a tremendous of just scaring people to death. It's fear that won this election for election for Wal-Mart. It's fear that made this election go down," said Dave Minshall, a union spokesman.

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[RobertSeattle]

3. Chickens vote to re-elect Colonel Sanders

[K-W]

4. They were bullied.

Wal marts latest PR trend seems to be "you cant stop us, so dont even try"

[LostInAnomie]

5. I'd vote against a union too...

... after seeing what those Mao-Mart bastards did up in Canada.

These "associates" need these jobs so desperately they aren't going to risk having the store closed.

I've worked at Walmart twice, and from the day you start they make it known that unions aren't welcome. They even show you a video your first day telling you that unions are only looking for money, and can't do anything for you.

[newportdadde]

6. Hens confirm, Fox the best to gaurd the henhouse.

[elperromagico]

7. I can top that headline: The American people vote to reelect Bush.

[EC]

8. after closing the one in Canada

what did we expect?

[Zinfandel]

9. Walmart has to be unionized! That should be the goal of all labor.

Strength in numbers.

Unions will fight for better wages, medical & dental insurance, sick pay, vacation & retirement, worker safety, overtime pay and put an end to workers losing their jobs for bullshit reasons.

ONLY unions can do this, certainly the government won't, they never have before. Unions had to fight for every advancement the worker has today and are now rapidly losing under this corporate fascist regime.

Unions fought for a 40 hour week, overtime pay, child labor laws, safety in the work place, workers benefits, etc. etc. All the things we take for grated today, unions workers fought and died for these changes.

Now most every corporations want to become clones of Walmart...forcing low wages, little or no health insurance, no job security, no overtime pay, using foreign workers to make their products, taking jobs away from Americans for even more profits.

Corporations love this Walmart oppressive concept, it helps their bottom line, huge profits from the pain and misery of the workers. These super wealth corporations do not care one bit about workers or their family's.

We have to get unions in Walmart!