Yes, our favorite slave-labor corporate bathhouse achieves ignominy once again (Note: The video is from the show Walmartopia, which happens to be both excellent and right on the money--see it if you're in New York)!
Here is how Wal-Mart, at a cost of a couple of thousand dollars, illegally beat back an attempt to unionize its stores in Nevada:
Seven years ago, as Wal-Mart corporate executives proclaimed Nevada ground zero in a n attempt to battle unionizing the giant retailer, three workers at Wal-Mart stores in Southern Nevada took the first steps toward organizing. Avis Hammond, Norine Sorensen and Diana Griego talked to fellow employees about the union and passed out fliers in front of stores, activities clearly allowed under federal labor laws.
Management stepped in. The three employees were told to stop. They were questioned, threatened and insulted, according to later findings by the government. Wal-Mart stripped one worker of his union fliers and denied another a promotion.
The union seeking to represent workers asked for help from the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with enforcing labor law. The workers wanted Wal-Mart to act within the law so they could continue to try to organize.
That was in 2000.
Last month - seven years, two months and seven days after the first charge was filed - the NLRB issued its ruling: Wal-Mart acted illegally.
The punishment: The retailer must pay lost wages to one of the employees, which apparently comes to a few thousand dollars. It also must post notices in its three stores disclosing its federal labor law violations.
The outcome: The union has long since given up trying to organize from within the stores. The three workers quit the company.
Welcome to Republican economics 101: How to see if we can reach back far enough so that our worker standards are roughly equal to those in Angola. Can't the damn government move faster than it takes Larry Craig to use a public restroom? Unfreakinbelievable.
So what happens next, when nothing is done about the Wal-Marts of the world? Well, the disparity between rich and poor continues to grow. We become two different societies. And the one at the bottom eventually engages in coordinated acts of violence, also known as revolution, against the elites in control. It has only happened like 16,457 times in the history of the world. So, yeah, Condi might consider this a "historical document," but others might see some value in analyzing it.
For even if these corporate jackwads are so greedy as to wish to deny the most basic rights to their workers, don't you think they might be smart enough to realize this?
Don't bother answering.
We all can hear the response in Rush's Oxycontined-intonation if we use just an ounce of imagination.
EVERY EMPLOYER IN AMERICA CARES LESS ABOUT THE WELL BEING OF THE EMPLOYEES. THERE IS NO BENEFITS WORTH HAVING ANY MORE AND YOU PAY OUT OF YOUR A_ _ FOR INSURANCE TO COVER YOU R FAMILIES HEALTH CARE NEEDS.MAKE MONEY AND PROFITS IS THE MOTO AMERICANS WAKE UP VOTE AND BE VERBAL ABOUT WHAT IS FAIR AND LEGAL