New Orleans The protests of Black Friday may be over but that’s about all that’s over on either Black Friday or the woeful Walmart watch. Occupy’s Role in Protests One interesting side note of the protests is the critical, though largely unrecognized, role of the remnants of last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement and its …
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Walmart: Black Friday, Open-Source Protests, Hot Shops, and Real Trouble in India
New Orleans “…every battle is won before it is fought. And it is won by choosing the field of terrain on which the fight will be engaged.” Sun Tzu Now that the UFCW national action day at Walmart has gone past its Black Friday expiration day, we can say pretty definitively, and largely without …
Walmart Shots across the Bow at Union
New Orleans In the past we’ve tried to suggest that Walmart’s reaction to UFCW’s current organizational efforts are serious and in some cases shrewd, particularly when they pressured their subcontractors at their distribution centers to reinstate workers to avoid obvious unfair labor practice charges in recent months. Coming on the heels of huge publicity for their …