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truedelphi

(32,324 posts) Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:31 PM Oct 2012

WalMart, strikes, unions, wages etc.

Nice bit of writing in the following article:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/category/social-policy

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WalMart, strikes, unions, wages etc. (Original Post) truedelphi Oct 2012 OP

One of the biggest hotel chains that has been abusing its housekeepers is hurting now... joycejnr Oct 2012 #1

WalMart screwed themselves by screwing their employees. Ikonoklast Oct 2012 #2

joycejnr

(326 posts)

1. One of the biggest hotel chains that has been abusing its housekeepers is hurting now...

Reply to truedelphi (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:38 PM

Oct 2012

...with a big sale in the near future and a union on their back. I predict that they are going to have to sign a union contract to make their company look like a winner. (This could come under the heading of inside information, as news of this could affect their stock price, but what do I know.)

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)

2. WalMart screwed themselves by screwing their employees.

Reply to truedelphi (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 04:52 PM

Oct 2012

Since they decided to move ot an all part-time labor force, employees figured that they no longer had musc to lose by seeking to organize.

They could picket and get fired, or stay and starve...

Might as well picket.

WalMart is in trouble.

Live Better, Work Union.

UFCW Local 880.

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