(Reuters)—Wal-Mart is mobilizing U.S. store managers to lobby against Democrats in November’s presidential election, fearing they will make it easier for workers to unionize, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside for workers if store workers unionize, the paper said.
About a dozen employees who attended meetings in seven states said executives stressed employees would have to pay hefty union dues and get nothing in return, and might have to go on strike without compensation, and warned that unionization could force the company to cut jobs as labor costs rise, the Journal reported.
The Wal-Mart human-resources managers who have run the meetings didn’t tell those attending how to vote in the November elections, but made it clear that voting for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, would be tantamount to inviting unions in, The Journal said.
Wal-Mart could not be reached immediately for a comment.
2 comments:
Leave it to you! I was just gonna email you about this .. but ya already got to it! I just need to turn of CNBC and stop reading the papers and come here first!!
Bunch of the Clown College are on CNBC right now talking about how Democrats are bad for the country's economy .. apparently things were bad under Clinton but great with Bush? I think we have slipped down the rabbit-hole!
Sorry .. "turn off"
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