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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