American Rights at Work: Ask the FEC to Investigate Wal-Mart’s Electioneering

And now for corporate;

With the same presence of mind.

Dreaming and awake ...........

Specifically ...........

Let us speak of “Site to Store.”.

My house was smaller than it.

So 15 billion; if not making within the second year;

Truly I’de be amazed.

Specifically shall I speak.

Turn Site to store into a library.

User friendly;

At the library or at home (.com).

Every product in the arseneal;

Every product available;

Every product dreamed.

Have dell do it;

Do it yourself (true knowledge needed).

Why in the world; I simply ask; is site to store in it’s current configuration gas prices being what they are;

information technology being what it is;

Is this dog being beaten.

Dream with me.

Corporate.

Go from that 1 simple thing.

And again to target consumers.

Rich - poor - in-between.

Rich (the $15 dollar ups on-up).

Poor - debit cards and $20 dollars down. (double down).

In - betwixt -

Is in-between.

:).

Have a nice -

Genius.

Multiplication tables.

Let me get my calculator.

First I’ll pose the question.

1.0 million walmart employees.

Gas prices being what they are .............

Let’s sell our cars and suv’s; whatever. to Brazil.

Gas there is what - was it 30 cents or 3 cents per gallon.

Avg. Price - $3,000 per vehicle times 1 million minus 70%.

That’s close to billion -

right?

Only for lawyers; only for scientists.

Reading usatoday.com

Snapshot grid; for light might change it.

400 percent magnification;

2,000 percent magnification;

and averages;

Cells move.

There - there -

Your’ simple solution.

“Banishing Ted Stevens.”.

Drop all charges.

Sentence him -

At 84;

To the Alaska he loves soo much.

So each and every day;

He can remember;

Who he once was;

And ask himself;

Why am I here;

In this house I love so much.

The point being.

You could pick that house up;

And it wouldn’t be even worth 250,000 american;

In California;

Be kind to Republicans ...........

The “Whig” Party.

Reinventing the Flocks Car.

Take the volkswagen;

Take that oriental guy in california;

Who made his’ mercedes run on batteries;

Take toyota’s sunroof technology (uv solar);

And reinvent this broken American Machine.

Fixing Walstreet.

Human Greed;

Who thinks ...

Leeching even serves a purpose.

Surely it does;

But as they did in the 1600’s;

It does not serve a purpose;

If the patient is dying.

So this simple solution.

America to revert to a flat tax;

4 years.

60% federal;

40% state;

25% state to federal.

There’ you have a shrinking federal government;

As republicans’ love soo much.

And beyond that;

Soo many things solved -

At the State Level.

But why do this -

Walstreet.

Because;

Corporate taxes and investor taxes should go to 10%.

In the first 4 years.

14%

13%

12%

11%.

So simple this solution;

The machine is broken.

The storm has already disappated;

On geo-thermal radar;

Est non veritae.

Why was this panic news;

On fox news?

To Congress -

Specifically -

From a poor American.

Quote:

I do not care how greedy you are;

I do not care where you live;

I only care; that I and all around me;

Live.

Unquote.

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac;

Bailouts;

So tired of;

Pick your’ poison;

Within the next 12 months;

Pay 9 mortgage payments out of 12.

Take a deep breath;

And watch this consumer society;

Truly consume;

And pay theyre mortgages;

Dream with me.

It’ll give congress nothing to do.

Alex,Wont you please do someting about these aimless musings-this is a form of spamming-or is it just HAMMing it up to frustrate others from commenting about WalMart?

But what of the stock price;

the question.

It’s already been raided;

Is the answer;

By those who do not need it.

So let fannie mae and freddie mac;

Be what they were meant to be.

It’s an indirect taxpayer bailout targeted directly

to those who need it;

And not paid by those whom do not have it.

And the stock price can only go up.

Est non veritae?

Sorry -

Guy -

The Forum is Yours.

A VOTE FOR WALMART IS A VOTE AGAINST DEMOCRACY!

There is no such thing as a secret ballot under NLRB elections
Much has been made about the importance of the secret ballot in NLRB elections. But, as this report documents, the NLRB safeguards the secret ballot in name only. The principle of the secret ballot in the American democratic tradition encompasses more than the fact of casting one’s ballot in a private booth on election day. More broadly, it is the principle that voters have the right to keep their political opinions to themselves, and that they cannot be forced to reveal which party they’re supporting before, during or after election day.

But this principle has been eviscerated by the NLRB. Federal law allows anti-union managers to force individual employees into repeated, intimidating one-on-one conversations with their personal supervisors that are designed to make employees reveal their political leanings long before election day. “Union avoidance” consultants typically script supervisors’ conversations, train them how to read employees verbal and non-verbal reactions, and have them ask indirect questions without explicitly asking employees how they will vote. Supervisors often adopt a sophisticated grading system to mark the political tendencies of each of their subordinates; for those whose leanings are unclear, consultants require that supervisors go back for repeated conversations until employees’ political sentiments have been flushed to the surface. Unlike political elections, employee voters have no right to walk away from such conversations or to insist that they don’t want to discuss union-related issues with their supervisor. They can be forced to engage in such conversations daily, or multiple times a day, in an atmosphere of dramatically increasing pressure.

Unsurprisingly, all but the most skilled actors end up revealing their union preferences in these conversations with supervisors. One management consultant recalls that he would commonly initiate a pool among managers, in which each supervisor would predict the number of anti-union votes, with a $100 prize for the closest guess. “It was amazing,” he reports. “In pool after pool the supervisors were astonishingly accurate.”

To the extent that such tactics are effective, the technically secret ballot has ceased to provide any meaningful protection to voters subject to the intense scrutiny of those who control their work lives. ~~~~~~~~~~~Neither Free nor Fair-American Rights at Work website~~~~~~

Seven Sophisticated Unionbuster Techniques

1.Supervisors as Frontline Soldiers: Supervisors, who themselves have no legally protected right to be represented by a union, are manipulated into delivering anti-union letters, speeches, and informal chats prepared by unionbusters, essentially doing the dirty work of the unionbusters and management. 
2.One-on-One Meetings: During organizing drives, 78 percent of workers are forced to attend closed-door or isolated meetings with supervisors.5 These aren’t friendly impromptu chats, but well-planned meetings to decipher employees’ feelings about the union and persuade them against the union. 
3.Captive Audience Meetings: So-called ‘captive audience’ meetings are held for employees during work hours to disseminate propaganda against union representation and to attempt to discredit the union.  Employees are almost always required to attend, but union organizers may be intentionally disinvited.  Often, the meetings are rigged so that workers who are already against the union are assigned to ask questions to sow misinformation.
4.Delay: Unionbusters often attempt to delay union representation elections by legal maneuvers so they have more time to implement other tactics needed to increase tension, dissension and the employer’s chance of winning the election.
5.Divide & Conquer: The unionbuster creates opportunities and crafts persuasive messages to make employees feel that there is a tense division among staff concerning the union election.  They may go so far as to pit one group of employees against each other, based on race or ethnicity. 
6.Letters, letters, letters: A unionbuster’s specialty is hammering out materials—be it cartoons, leaflets or management correspondence—to make the case against the union.  92 percent of companies involved in organizing drives mail anti-union materials to employees’ homes.6
7.Love offerings: In order to convince employees that they don’t need a union, unionbusters may advise clients to provide indirect bribes, like unexpected increases in wages or benefits or ‘feel good’ measures like free food and lottery tickets. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Anti-Union Network) American Right to Work website

Isn’t the SEIU doing the same thing by promoting Obama and contributing over three million dollars to his campaign from various organizations within the SEIU?

Up to this point of time, I have not heard any Wal-Mart employees say anything about this union thing.  Most have not heard anything about it.  I don’t know

if you are going to pick on wm over electioneering you might as well pick on all labor unions and numerous other companies across america as well because they are doing the same thing wm is doing.

You need to catch up on your reading, Sage. There are several posts by Wal-Mart associates that have attended these meetings. As to your question:

Isn’t the SEIU doing the same thing by promoting Obama and contributing over three million dollars to his campaign from various organizations within the SEIU?

The answer is no, they’re not. The fact that you and other like-minded right wingers refuse to see the difference doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

If Wal-Mart wants to continue givings millions of dollars to the Republican Party, that’s fine with me, but don’t take your employees into the back room and twist their arms.

“Success isn’t measured by how much merchandise you sell. Real success is found in the development of, and opportunities you provide for, the people who are selling it.”~ Barney Kroger

Alex,Wont you please do someting about these aimless musings...

How do you know she’s not enjoying this stuff (as she is said to be a poetry aficionado).

As for the disruption part, it’s no different than all that nonsense you’ve been googling over the past several months…

ken unions give millions to the democrat party.tell me why you dont bitch about that but you bitch about wm being close with conservatives and republicans?target does the same thing kenbo on unions wm oes.why dont you go nitpick and pick on target for doing the same thing kenny boy

Ken V. Usually I pegged you with a little more insight than the above. 
I have not heard about any of the employees and the so called indoctrination.  Perhaps there are a few instances in strongly union areas—I don’t know about them.

Your second point Ken is totally ridiculous and I find it hard that you do not know how much money the SEIU has given to the Obama campaign.  It can be gotten from the reports given to the election commission.  It is by far over three million.  Would you like me to post the numbers?

Would you like me to post the numbers?

You miss the point. Giving money to a candidate and forcing your employees to attend anti Democrat meetings are not the same thing.

Giving your Union members money to a candidate with out majority approval of the members is worse! It is theft!

The advocate: Is it theft if you endorse a particular candidate WITHOUT a majority approval of a corporation’s SHAREHOLDERS?

...with out majority approval of the members is worse!

You may have given ‘approval’ when you joined the union. 

Tell me, advocate, has your union taken you into the ‘back room’ and threatened you if you don’t vote Democratic?

We’re going to quit breaking the law. ~ Wal-Mart Regional VP, Larry Williams

“You may have given ‘approval’ when you joined the union.”

Unless you ‘voted’ against the union, but it was a ‘closed shop’ and you were FORCED to become a member or quit!!  If you had quite a number of years with the company before unionization, you may not have wanted to quit!!

As for being ‘taken into the “back room“‘, they don’t need to do that, they tell you outright who they expect you to vote for!!  It’s no SECRET, that unions want their members to vote for Democrats!!

“Tell me, advocate, has your union taken you into the ‘back room’ and threatened you if you don’t vote Democratic? “

No one’s ever taken me into the “back room” and threatened me to vote Republican either so your argument holds no water.  There is no pressure put on us at all on how to vote.  I don’t think the same can be said for most unions.

I don’t think...

But you do belabor the obvious.

Women employees at Wal-Mart are concentrated in the lower paying jobs, are paid less than men in the same job, and are less likely to advance to management positions than men. These gender patterns persist even though women have more seniority, have lower turnover rates, and have higher performance ratings in most jobs.* The shortfall in female earnings, pay rates, and promotion rates have a high degree of statistical significance.

*Emphasis mine.

Those comments really have nothing to do with what we were talking about, but good job changing the topic. 

Also the quote was from several years ago, I’m kind of curious how the numbers compare today.  I’ve seen a lot more women go into managment of late than men, and the majority of the stores in the market have a larger percentage of female managment that there is male.  Maybe my market is the only one that is like this, but I really doubt it.

nice, definitely