Wal-Mart, $640 in back wages, would never have happened if the employees were represented by a union [View All]

[Omaha Steve]

http://anti-union.blogspot.com/2009/01/wal-mart-640-in-back-wages-would-never.html



Monday, January 19, 2009

Had the employees of Wal-Mart been represented by a labor union, the company wouldn’t be forced to pay $640 million in back wages to employees who were cheated out of that money. It never would have happened. Period.- David Macaray


I've noticed that Wal-Mart has been pushing it's advertisements every 10 minutes or so here in New York, could it be the Black Friday death at the local Valley Stream store? Or could it be the fact that unbeknown to many, Wal-Mart got caught cheating it's employees out of $640 million US dollars and quietly settled without much ado.



Good olde' Wal-Mart, it wouldn't want any bad publicity , but our friend David Macaray has posed this note, that the very employees that Wal-Mart brain washes into their team mentality would have never gotten ripped off if they were represented by a union, so heres a clip from a David Macaray article at CounterPunch called "The Economics of Cheating: Wal-Mart Caught Stealing" from 1/9-11/09:

But there’s one thing we can be absolutely certain of. Had the employees of Wal-Mart been represented by a labor union, the company wouldn’t be forced to pay $640 million in back wages to employees who were cheated out of that money. It never would have happened. Period.

Things in the workplace fall through the cracks all the time; they get dismissed, put off, overlooked, rescheduled, piled up, mishandled, etc.. But in a union shop, no one—and that means no one—fails to get paid. You can ask union people to work harder, to work safer, to work quicker; you can ask them pretty much anything, and they’ll do it. Just don’t ask them to work for free.


FULL story at link.