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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:14 AM Dec 2015

Menard's contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

It's no secret that John Menard is opposed to unions. But the Progressive magazine has obtained a copy of a contract agreement between Menard's home-improvement store chain and managers that enshrines the billionaire's anti-union stance in company policy.

The Progressive published a story Tuesday with wording from the contract that threatens Menards store managers with a 60-percent pay cut if they allow employees to vote in a union.

Here's the actual wording of the provision:

“The Manager’s income shall be automatically reduced by sixty percent (60%) of what it would have been if a union of any type is recognized within your particular operation during the term of this Agreement. If a union wins an election during this time, your income will automatically be reduced by sixty percent (60%).”

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/steven_elbow/menard-s-contract-threatens-managers-with-pay-cut-if-union/article_d5a2b07c-4314-56a4-9246-ee6b7065e736.html

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Menard's contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch (Original Post) Sherman A1 Dec 2015 OP

KnR for visibility. nt tblue37 Dec 2015 #1

Not a smart move Turbineguy Dec 2015 #2

That has been the American way of business forever. nt awoke_in_2003 Dec 2015 #13

I Boycott Home Depot For Obvious Reasons And Now Menards..... global1 Dec 2015 #3

Agreed Sherman A1 Dec 2015 #5

It's the 1% vs the middle class SmittynMo Dec 2015 #4

I would shop there if they had a union AllyCat Dec 2015 #6

Would never shop at Menards. Koinos Dec 2015 #7

John Menard is a big Squat Wanker donor, and I avoid his stores like the plague ... Scuba Dec 2015 #8

Fuck this asshole. blackspade Dec 2015 #9

This is an itsy-bitsy taste of what can be expected... gregcrawford Dec 2015 #10

What a jerk. We don't have Menard's in Colorado mountain grammy Dec 2015 #11

Fuck him to Hell and back... KansDem Dec 2015 #12

tblue37

(65,483 posts)

1. KnR for visibility. nt

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:35 AM

Dec 2015

Turbineguy

(37,364 posts)

2. Not a smart move

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:46 AM

Dec 2015

setting the workers against managers. Although the British Navy was run that way, back in the days of Captain Bligh.

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

13. That has been the American way of business forever. nt

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 01:43 PM

Dec 2015

global1

(25,270 posts)

3. I Boycott Home Depot For Obvious Reasons And Now Menards.....

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:07 AM

Dec 2015

is giving me a reason not to shop their stores anymore. I can't believe that such a clause in a contract is legal.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

5. Agreed

Reply to global1 (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:31 AM

Dec 2015

I was happy to see a Menards open nearby, but that has now changed. I will concentrate my hardware purchases at my local True Value and Ace stores. I feel much more comfortable with them.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)

4. It's the 1% vs the middle class

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:22 AM

Dec 2015

Let's see, you cut my salary 60%, and I'm gone, with or without a job. If it happens at 1 store, all managers would be gone within hours. I wonder how the workers bees can work without management? I personally can see the store shutting down, at least temporarily.

This is yet another example of the 1% controlling and destroying the middle class. I'm betting John and his cronies aren't going to vote for Bernie either.

AllyCat

(16,218 posts)

6. I would shop there if they had a union

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:50 AM

Dec 2015

Koinos

(2,792 posts)

7. Would never shop at Menards.

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:13 AM

Dec 2015

I made that decision when I learned Menard funded Scott Walker and the Repubs in Wisconsin.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

8. John Menard is a big Squat Wanker donor, and I avoid his stores like the plague ...

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:17 AM

Dec 2015

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/secret-1-5-million-donation-from-wisconsin-114429739886.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

John Menard Jr. is widely known as the richest man in Wisconsin. A tough-minded, staunchly conservative 75-year-old billionaire, he owns a highly profitable chain of hardware stores throughout the Midwest. He’s also famously publicity-shy — rarely speaking in public or giving interviews.

So a little more than three years ago, when Menard wanted to back Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — and help advance his pro-business agenda — he found the perfect way to do so without attracting any attention: He wrote more than $1.5 million in checks to a pro-Walker political advocacy group that pledged to keep its donors secret, three sources directly familiar with the transactions told Yahoo News.

And it paid off ...

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/scott-walker-opponents-question-his-wedc-role-after-menard-report/article_79997f77-8c8b-5755-8ff0-80faca65c767.html

The Yahoo report noted that Menards — Menard's big box home improvement store chain — was awarded up to $1.8 million in tax credits by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the public-private jobs agency chaired by Walker, in 2013 and 2014.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)

9. Fuck this asshole.

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:19 AM

Dec 2015

The managers should quit en mass if he tries this shit.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)

10. This is an itsy-bitsy taste of what can be expected...

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:30 AM

Dec 2015

... if the Trans-Pacific Partnership is allowed to become law. Rapacious corporatism is the single most destructive force threatening the continued existence of America. We let filth like Menard continue their depredations at our peril.

mountain grammy

(26,646 posts)

11. What a jerk. We don't have Menard's in Colorado

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:11 AM

Dec 2015

but we have Home Depots that I avoid like the plague.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)

12. Fuck him to Hell and back...

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:15 AM

Dec 2015

Why don't these OnePercenters ever take a "pay cut?" Maybe 60% of their riches?

It's always the little guy who sacrifices for these assholes.

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