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 …
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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 …
Union Conundrum: Short Term Needs versus Long Term Success
New Orleans Eduardo Porter’s “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times is fast becoming a favorite read for me. He actually seems to care about people, including working and low income people. Probably not long for this world at the paper, but worth showing some love. In today’s column he looked at the deterioration …