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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Walmart, for Victory! [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)6. That is an interesting question. I wonder if those on their Board of Directors knows the answer?
You know who was on the Board? Hillary Clinton!
Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions
By BRIAN ROSS MADDY SAUER
RHONDA SCHWARTZ
ABC News, Jan. 31, 2008
In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world's largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.
Clinton has been endorsed for president by more than a dozen unions, according to her campaign Web site, which omits any reference to her role at Wal-Mart in its detailed biography of her.
Wal-Mart's anti-union efforts were headed by one of Clinton's fellow board members, John Tate, a Wal-Mart executive vice president who also served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years.
Tate was fond of repeating, as he did at a managers meeting in 2004 after his retirement, what he said was his favorite phrase, "Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living."
Wal-Mart says Tate's comments "were his own and do not reflect Wal-Mart's views."
But Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and other company officials often recounted how they relied on Tate to lead the company's successful anti-union efforts.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/clinton-remained-silent-wal-mart-fought-unions/story?id=4218509
I visited opensecrets.org, but had a bit of trouble finding anything specific on 2016. Nice overview, of sorts, but needs some TLC. One article linked back to The Guardian piece in the OP.
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What is destroying this country is people looking the other way when they are confronted with the
insta8er
Jun 2016
#42
It's not walmarts job to raise the minimum wage, it's Congress. Congress knows underpaid americans
Sunlei
Jun 2016
#19
Time form e to leave this cesspool, where progressives have become an endangered species.
zonkers
Jun 2016
#60
That is an interesting question. I wonder if those on their Board of Directors knows the answer?
Octafish
Jun 2016
#6
K&R-lay down and take a snooze then MM, here's a tune for everyone that's "tired"
bobthedrummer
Jun 2016
#14
Actually that stupid Henry Ford quote is bullshit- He paid $5 a day so the didn't quit
snooper2
Jun 2016
#27
Don't forget, it costs the local community about a million dollars a year for each
pdsimdars
Jun 2016
#48