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Monday, December 2, 2013

Unions shop for Walmart protesters for the holidays

By Editorial Writer | NOVEMBER 29, 2013 AT 10:44 PM
The Friday after Thanksgiving is a notoriously slow news day, and turmoil at Walmart just as the Christmas shopping season begins is enough to entice the local TV news crews.Expect today to see a barrage of news about Walmart workers protesting low pay at their stores nationwide. The Friday after Thanksgiving is a notoriously slow news day, and turmoil at Walmart just as the Christmas shopping season begins is enough to entice the local TV news crews.
Be extremely skeptical. What you will see is not a spontaneous grassroots protest, but a long-planned, well-organized campaign by Big Labor, which has for years sought to organize the nonunion retail giant’s 1.3 million employees. Note that when a corporation tries something like that, it is derided as an “AstroTurf" campaign.
The main forces behind the protesters are OUR Walmart and Making Change at Walmart, left-wing nonprofit activist groups purporting to represent disaffected workers. In fact, the National Labor Relations Board recognizes them as subsidiaries of United Food and Commercial Workers, a 1.3 million-member union whose members mainly work for Walmart's rivals, such as Giant, Safeway and Kroger……To Read More….

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