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 …
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Walmart Workers Strike or Publicity?
New Orleans Some eighty-eight (88) Walmart workers have walked out of 25 odd stores around the country according to the UFCW and its Walmart organizing project director, Dan Schladerman. The Times, Wall Street Journal, and other parts of the financial press have played the worker action as a strike and as the first strike against …
With a Corporate Culture Built on Bribery, Walmart Was Running with Plenty to Hide
New Orleans We told you so! We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly. In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …