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Labor Groups Request FEC Investigation Of Wal-Mart’s Tactics

Representatives from some of the nation’s largest labor organizations will be a formal letter to the FEC today requesting an investigation of Wal-Mart’s political meetings with employees. Along with the letter are the names of thousands of activists who signed a petition endorsing the request.

While Wal-Mart’s political involvement here might have been illegal - an FEC investigation would determine that for sure - the company’s message in its meetings was indisputably anti-union and anti-worker. The specter of unionization at its U.S. stores has Wal-Mart executives nervous, and the company’s actions reveal its intent to keep employees paid poorly and too afraid to speak up. The most important thing that could come out of this discussion of Wal-Mart’s practices is for store employees to realize federal law protects their right to speak out and band together.

Unions Seek Probe of Wal-Mart Over Election Law [Wall Street Journal]

Prominent labor groups are seeking an investigation into whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. violated federal election laws by telling employees that electing Democrats would lead to passage of legislation making it easier to unionize companies.

In a letter to be delivered as early as Thursday, the labor groups are asking the Federal Election Commission to determine whether the company “made prohibited corporate expenditures” by organizing meetings across the country to warn employees that a Democratic president would back legislation known as the Employee Free Choice Act, which the company opposes. The groups say such statements amount to advocating the defeat of Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the November election.

Companies aren’t permitted under federal election law to expressly advocate to hourly employees the election or defeat of specific candidates. The complaint cites as its source an Aug. 1 front-page article in The Wall Street Journal that reported the Bentonville, Ark., retailer held meetings with thousands of store managers and department supervisors across the country to discuss the legislation.

The labor groups are also expected to submit petitions with 60,000 signatures requesting an investigation. American Rights at Work, a worker advocacy group, the AFL-CIO and Change to Win labor federations and WakeUpWalMart.com, a labor-backed group, are filing the complaint.

Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director of American Rights at Work, said Wal-Mart “adapted their unionbusting tactics to influence our federal election system.”

Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar said the company’s policies are clear and that anyone representing the company and telling associates how to vote were “wrong and acting without approval.”

“We welcome the FEC looking into this, because we are confident they will find what we have known all along, that we did nothing wrong,” Mr. Tovar said.

Legal experts said election-law complaints against employers are rare but that the complaint against Wal-Mart merits consideration. “I think it’s going to be a case that the FEC is going to have to take seriously,” said Joseph M. Birkenstock, a Washington attorney specializing in election law. The key to the case will be “exactly what was said” at meetings, he said.

Meanwhile, new details are emerging that show Wal-Mart managers leading the meetings are spreading inaccurate information about the Employee Free Choice Act, according to a digital recording of a Wal-Mart meeting made by a Wal-Mart employee and reviewed by the Journal.

In the hour-and-a-half meeting, held for managers in a Southern state, the leader tells employees that their wages may be reduced to minimum wage for up to three months before a contract is negotiated, that union authorization cards violate workers’ right to privacy by including their Social Security numbers on them and that if a small unit within a store votes to unionize, the entire store will be unionized.

“If you have 10 associates in a photo lab and six sign union authorization cars, now the store is unionized,” the meeting leader told employees. “Six people can make a decision for 350 people,” which is about the average number of workers in a Walmart supercenter.

Labor lawyers say these are inaccurate interpretations of labor law in general and the Employee Free Choice Act specifically, and that could be a violation of labor law. “The statements are not correct representations of what the law would require even under the current law,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, a labor lawyer in Boston. “It would be a violation of the national labor relations act to say those things.”

Wal-Mart said that the three comments regarding minimum wage, Social Security numbers and unionizing small units don’t reflect Wal-Mart’s understanding of the law and weren’t included in its training.

According to the recording, the meeting leader, a human-resources manager, began by saying she was going to talk about the company and unions and “a little bit of politics,” specifically the Employee Free Choice Act. The leader said that the bill almost passed last year. “If Democrats get the votes they need and elect a Democratic president, they said it will be the first bill presented and that’s scary,” she said.

Wal-Mart’s Mr. Tovar said the meeting leader’s use of the word scary was “unauthorized.”

The managers and supervisors were told that they could not threaten, intimidate, make promises to or spy on workers interested in a union. They could, however, give facts, opinions and share experiences. During the meeting, employees were shown a video enactment of a union steward telling a manager that the manager could be fined for cleaning up a spill on a store floor because of the union contract. In another clip, a role-playing manager says, “When I was little my dad belonged to the United Auto Workers union. They went out on strike and he had to walk the picket line for six months.”

At one point, the meeting leader mentioned that union representatives are already asking Wal-Mart workers to sign cards, which would be valid for a year. Mr. Tovar confirmed that unions are “actively collecting signatures for authorization cards now at our stores.”

Jill Cashen, a spokeswoman for the United Food and Commercial Workers, said the union hasn’t started an organizing campaign, but locals could be doing organizing on their own.

The battle between business and labor over the Employee Free Choice Act has made the legislation a campaign issue. Sen. Obama co-sponsored the legislation, which also is known as “card check,” and has said he would sign it into law if elected president. Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, opposes the Employee Free Choice Act and voted against it last year. Both labor and business agree the legislation would make it easier for the labor movement to organize more workers.

Posted by Alex Goldschmidt on Thursday, August 14, 2008

COMMENTS

I am a college student, I am covered under my Dads health insurance plan until age 25 as long as I am a full time college student. My Dad is a member of a Labor Union that has bargained for the benefits I also enjoy.

I was at the Doctors office for my annual exam. I presented my Health Insurance Card and paid my $20 co-pay.

A woman next to me at the check in window ( there are 3 windows) was also seeing a Doctor. She presented a medicare -welfare card and had no co-pay.

While waiting to be seen I struck up a conversation with this woman who told me she worked at Wal-Mart. She told me that Wal-mart pays so little that she qualified for all sorts of “freebies”. I asked her if she would rather have a higher paying job. She replied “are you kidding, then I would have to pay for everything I get for free, including health insurance and the co-pay you had to make”
She began bragging about all the freebies she qualifies for such as no- doctor or prescription co-pays, free food at the local food banks etc etc. The woman was very proud and seemed to be bragging.

I told her, the things you get for free are paid for by the tax payer who are hard working Americans, and the company you work for (Wal-Mart) is part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

The woman got mad and moved to another part of the waiting room.

It dawned on me that Wal-Mart must be promoting, encouraging & fostering this attitude in their employees, thus getting rich off the American tax payer & worker. This is despicable ! There needs to be more sights like this, and more legislation to hold Wal-mart accountable for the burden they place on the tax payer.

Lisa in
Thursday, August 14 at 11:30 AM

Lisa,

“It dawned on me that Wal-Mart must be promoting, encouraging & fostering this attitude in their employees”

What should have dawned on you, is that the ones who are “promoting, encouraging & fostering” this attitude, is the liberal democrats, that made the laws that allow this to happen in the first place!! Wal-Mart doesn’t make the laws and it doesn’t run the welfare system!!

The fact that that woman was HAPPY to have things the way they were, shows that she would have been getting the benefits, whether she had her job at Wal-Mart or not and if she couldn’t get them with a job, she’d get them without one!! Having the job, only gave her MORE benefits, by getting a paycheck as well as welfare!!

“thus getting rich off the American tax payer & worker”

And, just how is Wal-Mart “getting rich off the American taxpayer & worker”? As there is absolutly NO obligation for Wal-Mart or any other company for that matter to provide healthcare insurance, it can’t be that!! And, Wal-Mart gets NO government funds to NOT provide healthcare, so it can’t be that!!

So, like I asked, exactly how is Wal-Mart getting rich off the American taxpayer & worker? Enlighten us!!

RDS in
Thursday, August 14 at 11:25 PM

Wal-Mart doesn’t make the laws... and they don’t obey them either.

Concerning Wal-Mart, a top EEOC lawyer told Business Week:

“I have never seen this kind of blatant disregard for the law.”

Ken V in Texas
Friday, August 15 at 05:29 AM

RDS,

To answer your question, I refer you to an economic study entitled “ Wal-Mart and County Wide Poverty” (10-18-2004)
AERS Staff Paper #371. By the Pennsylvania State University.(814-863-4656)

Here is but one of the quotes from the study.

“while indivdual workers have the option of working or not working for Wal-mart, a public welfare issue arises if the chain creates externalities that raise poverty levels in the community. In that case public tax dollars are spent on welfare programs and a disutility is created for those who are concerned about poor people living in their community.

The Wal-mart phenomenon is such that the chain seeks to minimize it’s workers pay, while the rents captured by the Walton heirs place them among the ten wealthiest Americans”

The study is Comprehensive & unbiased- I hope it “enlightens” you.

If you can not figure out that it is morally and ethically wrong to treat AMERICANS they way Wal-mart has, well, maybe YOUR NOT an AMERICAN!

With your reasoning & logic, I will have my twelve year old brother respond to your future rants. Are you sure your on the right web site? This site is aimed at Wal-Marts cooperate irresponsibility!

Lisa in
Friday, August 15 at 11:03 AM

thats- corporate irresponsibility

(so there isnt a reason to attack spelling and Dodge the issue)

Lisa in
Friday, August 15 at 11:08 AM

Lisa,

“If you can not figure out that it is morally and ethically wrong to treat AMERICANS they way Wal-mart has, well, maybe YOUR NOT an AMERICAN!”

Sorry, but I have been an American for almost 40 years more than YOU have been alive!! I would expect no less, from a person who is living on the back of their parents at age 25, to think like you do!!

“With your reasoning & logic, I will have my twelve year old brother respond to your future rants.”

Why not, you seem to have the same mentality as a 12 year old!! Like I said, until you ‘cut the cord’ with your parents, you are still living in a childs world, come back when you learn how to live on your own!!

“The Wal-mart phenomenon is such that the chain seeks to minimize it’s workers pay”

Hate to break it to you, but ‘Supply and Demand’ determines workers pay, along with ‘skill level’!! The day that Wal-Mart needs ‘skilled workers’ and has LESS workers apply for jobs, is the day workers pay will be raised to a higher level, but as long as they can get all the workers they need, at the pay rate offered, 1.) They will pay what the market will bear and 2.) They will not pay any more than they HAVE to, that is standard business practice!!

Being in college, you should be learning HOW things work in the ‘real world’, not in your perceived fantasy world!! Here’s how it works in the ‘real world’, company X has a job opening, the pay rate is based on the ‘skill level’ of the job and what the company figures is reasonable pay for performance of that job!! And, if person A, accepts the job, at the rate of pay offered, then that person MUST believe that the pay is reasonable for that position, or they wouldn’t accept the job!! It makes LITTLE to NO difference what person B thinks the job’s pay SHOULD be worth!!

Maybe, when you get a little actual JOB EXPERIENCE under your belt, and start to stand on your own two feet, you can start to understand how it works in the ‘real world’!! But, as long as mommy and daddy are footing the bill for your life, you haven’t a ‘clue’ as to how ‘real’ life works!!

RDS in
Tuesday, August 19 at 12:52 AM

Lisa, if you open your dictionary to ‘holier-than-thou’ you’ll see a picture of RDS.

“Sanctimony stinks in the nostrils of the Lord.” ~ Molly Ivins

Ken V in Texas
Tuesday, August 19 at 06:24 AM

Ken V,

“Lisa, if you open your dictionary to ‘holier-than-thou’ you’ll see a picture of RDS.”

Spoken like a true ‘I’m too lazy to get my own, so give me some of yours’ type of person!! I look at how to get ahead in life, by building things up, while you concentrate on the ‘race to the bottom’ and how to tear things down!! Do you really think going backwards, is the way to get ahead? Remember how well segregation worked for the U.S. in the past? Why would you want to segregate the U.S. from the rest of the world now? And, why should a ‘greeter’ at Wal-Mart get paid as much as a factory or construction worker?

RDS in
Tuesday, August 19 at 10:07 AM

RDS,

If that greeter has other skills such as being bilingual and Walmart forces that greeter to use those skills without being compensated, then what RDS??

Enlighten us on Walmart forcing a greeter to interpret without compensation?? Or any employee for that matter.

Being bilingual is not a required skill or hiring criteria for Walmart, so why does the beast force it’s bilingual employees to interpret without justly compensating them?

Michelle in
Tuesday, August 19 at 09:55 PM

Excellent point, Michelle.

I wonder what would happen to a bilingual associate that refused to interpret for free?

“We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. ~ Robert Kennedy

Ken V in Texas
Wednesday, August 20 at 07:43 AM

If the supposed people greeter is such a great interpreter there are plenty of other jobs they could find outside of Walmart to use their incredible skills, but with Walmart interpreting is not their job so they don’t deserve the compensation for it. At most they probably have to use it one or two times a day, hardly worth extra pay, and if they didn’t do it then they would find some other way to communicate with the customers. I’ve helped all kinds of customers that can’t speak English. I think I’ve seen you make this post several times. Actually, I think that is the only thing I’ve ever seen you say. You should really try to think of something else to say or it starts to make you look like a broken record.

Dave in
Thursday, August 21 at 08:15 AM

“She replied “are you kidding, then I would have to pay for everything I get for free, including health insurance and the co-pay you had to make”
She began bragging about all the freebies she qualifies for such as no- doctor or prescription co-pays, free food at the local food banks etc etc. The woman was very proud and seemed to be bragging. “

I think the fact that she doesn’t want a better paying job proves my point that these people would be on welfare no matter what. I would say that the majority of Walmart employees on welfare are like this lady. I’ve worked with people that will choose to keep their hours down and some even tried refusing raises in order to keep their pay low enough to stay on welfare because if you can work 20 hours a week and have the government pick up your extra pay so that you are living as well as if you were working 40, why wouldn’t you want to work only 20? Personally I don’t want handouts so I wouldn’t be able to do what they do, but I could see how it would be easy to get sucked into that mentality. The problem is with the welfare system that promotes that mentality and not with Walmart.

Dave in
Thursday, August 21 at 08:21 AM

“California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, who represents the 22nd Assembly District and is a former mayor of Mountain View,Californi ,was tipped off by dissatisfied WalMart workers, and her office discovered that Wal-Mart was encouraging its workers to apply for public assistance, “in the middle of the worst state budget crisis in history!” California had a $38 billion deficit at the time, and Lieber was enraged that taxpayers would be subsidizing Wal-Mart’s low wages, bringing new meaning to the term “corporate welfare.”

Lieber was angry, too, that Wal-Mart’s welfare dependence made it nearly impossible for responsible employers to compete with the retail giant. It was as if taxpayers were unknowingly funding a massive plunge to the bottom in wages and benefits - quite possibly their own. She held a press conference in July 2003, to expose Wal-Mart’s welfare scam. The Wal-Mart documents - instructions explaining how to apply for food stamps, Medi-Cal (the state’s healthcare assistance program) and other forms of welfare - were blown up on posterboard and displayed. The morning of the press conference, a Wal-Mart worker who wouldn’t give her name for fear of being fired snuck into Lieber’s office. “I just wanted to say, right on!” she told the assemblywoman!"~~~~~~Democratic Wings,2004~~~~~~Note: Dave,it seems that WALMART is promoting that welfare “mentality” themselves, by educating their employees to “milk” the system.

ddrb in
Thursday, August 21 at 10:32 AM

Thanks Ken.

So Dave, with your analogy The bilingual door greeter who interprets for Walmart for free, because he/she is forced to without compensation ( he/she is being robbed by Walmart as Robbery is defined as the taking of something of value through the means of FORCE or FEAR - Intimidation) Then compensates themself by taking an item of equal value to the interpretation ( what an interpreter makes) That would be ok?

Or should the employee forced to interpret, call the police and have the Manager, that forces them to interpret, arrested for Robbery!

Wouldnt compensating the employee properly for their skills and extra work above & beyond what is required be the proper thing to do?

It seems the only way to deal with Walmart the beast is to fight fire with fire & force them to do the right thing!
I guess I would call the police & have the forcing Mgr. arrested! & then sue the living shit out of the company if they retaliated! I guess with one of their managers in JAIL & a pending suit they may rethink their actions. (may being the optimistic word)

Walmart needs to be held to the same standard they hold their employees to- Theft wont be tolerated! So dont steal from your employees!

Michelle in
Thursday, August 21 at 12:26 PM

Michele: Wonder if a union would help?

ddrb in
Thursday, August 21 at 01:54 PM

ddrb:

undoubtedly. A union would bargain for and get- bilingual pay, or there would be no forcing of interpreting for free!

That is just one of the labor abuses Walmart has been getting away with & taking advantage of for way to long!

As I stated earlier, maybe some jail time for Walmarts managers would cause a re-thinking of Walmarts abuse of their employees.

Michelle in
Thursday, August 21 at 03:59 PM

Michelle: Do you know if any managers themselves have been personally sued for abuses,rather than suing WalMart?

ddrb in
Thursday, August 21 at 04:53 PM

Now it is theft? Wow. I never thought that a people greeter talking was extra work. It’s part of their job. I’m not even sure how this made up situation works though. A people greeter would be the worst possible person to be an interpreter since they have to stay at the door. So does the manager bring anyone who speaks Spanish up to the door so that they can interpret? Seems like a bad way to go since it would be hard to help the customer there. Using made up cases to try to bash up Walmart just makes the antiWalmart movement look desperate and pathetic. Also a union wouldn’t help. Union grocery stores will on occassion use bilingual employees to translate when needed and they do not get extra compensation either.

Dave in
Thursday, August 21 at 07:19 PM

...they don’t deserve the compensation for it.

Then don’t ask them to do it. As you point out being bi lingual is not part of a greeters job description. If Wal-Mart hired Tony Bennett as a greeter would he be expected to sing?

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

Ken V in Texas
Friday, August 22 at 07:23 AM

“Then don’t ask them to do it”

I don’t ask them to do it, and I don’t know of anyone that does ask. Personally I think this poster is just making up hypotheticals and using them as an argument against Walmart which is beyond pathetic.

Dave in
Friday, August 22 at 07:57 AM

Dave: Your delusional state of denial is beyond pathetic,Dave,its pathological.

ddrb in
Friday, August 22 at 09:53 AM

If Wal-Mart hired Tony Bennett as a greeter would he be expected to sing? Ken V~~~~~~Now,that’s a keeper! ROFLMAO!

ddrb in
Friday, August 22 at 09:57 AM

It’s not that hard to check Dave.

Take a poll from all the bilingual employees in a supercenter and find out how many of them were Told (rather than asked and given an option not to) to interpret for Walmart.
You seem to be stuck on the Door Greeter, so I’ll give you a clue since you have none- The door greeter was used as an example, there are many “associates” in a supercenter who work in say clothing, toys, etc.

Pathetic, patholigical, clueless Walmart Drone- seem to fit you like a Glove, Dave. Of course that would be a quality glove, that could/would not be found at Walmart.

Michelle in
Friday, August 22 at 10:39 AM

Actually there is a very simple answer for your scenerio Michelle… tell the bi-lingual door greeter to go find another job where they feel they should be compensated for the “extra” things they bring to the employment table. With the added skill they very easily could be compensated more, but they just have to find the job that pays them more for the skill.

Sorry to say it Michelle, but that’s how the rest of the world works for any job. Shame on any person who squanders their skills for a low paying job, but it’s their responsiblity alone for finding the better job.

mary in
Friday, August 22 at 02:39 PM

Sorry to say Mary, its the corporations responsibility (Walmarts) not to ask their employees to perform duties, above and beyond their job description, unless they are willing to re-classify the job, re-write its description and offer a salary for the newly described job. (which should include a higher hourly amount for those willing to interpret)

Walmart does not hire interpreters so they shouldnt ask anyone to ! Its not in any job description! To do so is asking more of the employee than the corporation expected in the initial job description & hiring process. ITS THEFT FROM THE EMPLOYEE. PERIOD.

Michelle in
Friday, August 22 at 10:07 PM

Michelle - 1 The rest of you pro Wal-Mart clowns - 0

“There is no perceived risk in attacking Wal-Mart anymore. They have gone from being a business success story to being a cultural villain.” ~ Eric Dezenhall

Ken V in Texas
Saturday, August 23 at 05:26 AM

“Take a poll from all the bilingual employees in a supercenter and find out how many of them were Told (rather than asked and given an option not to) to interpret for Walmart”

I know all the bilingual ones at my store and none of them have been told to interpret. So once again stop using hypotheticals to try to drum up a case against Walmart. It is sad and pathetic. Also as RDS was saying, it is about supply and demand. If there was a high demand for these interpreters than they would be valuable enough to get more money, but in reality their is a good percentage of people that can at least communicate in a secondary language so there is no value which is why they these great bilingual translators haven’t found a job better than Walmart. If they were in high demand they would be somewhere making 6 figures.

Dave in
Saturday, August 23 at 08:32 AM

I know all the bilingual ones at my store and none of them have been told to interpret.

Dave sounds like a graduate of the RDS School of Anecdotal Comments. Well, Dave, if it doesn’t happen in your store then it doesn’t happen.

What you have to understand, Michelle, about Dave and his capitalist ilk, is they don’t believe labor, whether translating or stocking shelves, has any value whatsoever. Why should Capital have to pay for labor? It cuts into profits!

“There is no perceived risk in attacking Wal-Mart anymore. They have gone from being a business success story to being a cultural villain.” ~ Eric Dezenhall

Ken V in Texas
Saturday, August 23 at 12:46 PM

Ken V: You definitely NAILED thte IMPERIAL attitude of Dave and Mary. Dave doesn’t consider an employees’ salary or benefits as EARNED,but GIVEN by WalMart employees.One could argue it semantics,I beg to differ. I believe it bespeaks a planation mentality that perceives employees a a commodity rather than a resource.

ddrb in
Saturday, August 23 at 01:27 PM

Correction: ...but GIVEN by WalMart TO employees.

ddrb in
Saturday, August 23 at 01:28 PM

Thanks again Ken.

It is refreshing to see that pro-labor-working Americans can see through Walmarts B/S, dishonest- law breaking ways.

No wonder Walmart is called the Beast of Betonville.

Sooner or later the beast will stick it to Dave & his tune will change.

Michelle in
Saturday, August 23 at 02:59 PM

So Michelle’s made up stories are accurate and my truth is inaccurate? Interesting how your warped minds work. It makes me laugh that people that don’t even work there think they are experts on how everything works. You guys need to get hobbies and quit obsessing about a company that people CHOOSE to work for because they can get better pay and benefits from them than they can from the other jobs around. It’s sad how much anger you have towards Walmart for no reason at all.

DDRB it is semantics, and you’re just being nitpicky because you can’t handle the fact that you have no idea what you are talking about most the time and just have to insert random articles that you find on other antiWalmart sites. Also it depends on the employee whether they are earned or given. Some earn them, but a lot do not.

Dave in
Monday, August 25 at 09:02 AM

Dave: Which category - “earned” or “given” -is your “brownnosing “ for WalMart?

ddrb in
Monday, August 25 at 11:18 AM

Dave,

You have to remember, that these people are thinking with the old union, “Dat’s not my job, man” mentality!! I bet, if they were stocking shelves and some paper fell on the floor and they were asked to pick it up, they would say, “Hey, man, that’s not my job, I’m not a janitor” and expect to be paid more for picking it up!!

RDS in
Monday, August 25 at 11:34 PM

...these people are thinking with the old union, “Dat’s not my job, man” mentality!!

“These people”? I wouldn’t point out old, outdated thinking if I were you.

“Dats”? Is that some lame attempt at racial or class humor? Who says “dats” in Arkansas?

You can’t create a team spirit when the situation is so one-sided, when management gets so much and workers get so little of the pie. ~ Sam Walton

Ken V in Texas
Tuesday, August 26 at 07:09 AM

Ken V: Sounds like some of the old Sanford and Son dialogue from the 70’s. Didn’t RDS consider that a favorite?Didn’t one of the characters say that somewhat frequently? (It wasn’t one of my top faves, so I’m not sure.)

ddrb in
Tuesday, August 26 at 07:30 AM

“Dave: Which category - “earned” or “given” -is your “brownnosing “ for WalMart?”

I don’t brownnose. If you’re talking about my posting on here, I just do that to try to keep people from getting a negative opinion of Walmart based on your guys’ lies, misinformation, and exagerrations, and hopefully to inform any uninformed employee that is thinking about trying to get a union into Walmart since that would make things much worse than they are now.

Dave in
Tuesday, August 26 at 08:40 AM

Dave:...” and hopefully to inform any uninformed employee that is thinking about trying to get a union into Walmart since that would make things much worse than they are now. “..Dave: ~~~Note: Uh, Dave,do you mean that the mandatory managers meetings to indoctrinate and influence the upcoming elections didn’t get the word out ENOUGH for you? Or was it that you hope to reach HOURLY employees here? Which is why the anti-union meetings were for NON hourly ,salaried mangers only,because its ILLEGAL to have hourlies being indoctrinated that way?Goin’ around the back door to pick up the slack,Dave?

ddrb in
Tuesday, August 26 at 10:38 AM

It’s not going around the back door when I am hourly, genius. I would be in the union if we got one, but I don’t want one, and neither do most my coworkers. I just don’t want the few that know nothing about unions getting talked into it by union propaganda. Also managers don’t have a vote in the union process so meetings with salaried management would do nothing to prevent unionization. For someone who copies and pastes articles as much as you do, you must not read much because you rarely know what you are talking about.

Dave in
Tuesday, August 26 at 08:04 PM

“ Made up stories”

I bet I can walk in just about any Walmart in this country and find a spanish speaking associate and ask him/her if they have ever translated for the store without being paid for it, and the answer will be positive 99%.

“picking up some paper” RDS-
BEWARE LEST YE BECOME ENTANGLED IN YOUR OWN SNARES

Michelle in
Wednesday, August 27 at 07:21 PM

“I bet “

I didn’t see any fact there. You thinking that something might be happening doesn’t make it true. Also you had been saying they were being forced. Now you just want to know if they have translated whether they were asked to or not or forced to or not. You’re changing your story now which reinforces my statement that it is all theory on your part based on absolutely no evidence or facts.

Dave in
Wednesday, August 27 at 11:55 PM

Michelle,

“I bet I can walk in just about any Walmart in this country and find a spanish speaking associate and ask him/her if they have ever translated for the store without being paid for it, and the answer will be positive 99%.”

And, I’ll bet if you asked them if they were being paid while translating, the answer will be a positive 99%, so, in essence, they were being paid for it, because if they weren’t translating, they would be doing something else!! Let’s see, CHOICE, translate or stock shelves, hard choice!!

RDS in
Thursday, August 28 at 02:19 AM

“choice” lets take some of the RDS spin out-

NOT translate, because there is no pay for it above “stocking shelves” so go stock the shelves and “drop paper” Let the requesting Mgr. force/order you to translate, tell the bum to put it in writing. Then sue the livin shit out of the beast!

The beast can not force an associate to translate if others with the same job & pay dont or cant. The hourly rate offered & accepted upon hiring does NOT include translating, so the beast shouldnt ask unless their willing to pay, it’s obvious their not, because the beast does not have a higher pay grade for those who translate a “bilingual incentive”

Its not hard to figure out RDS that forcing someone to do something they are not paid to do is a CRIME- Check with the Labor Dept. and the civil rights division of the United States Dept of Justice They will school you on this, since you do not understand!

Its hard to believe any associate would offer to do anything above & beyond, for the beast, for free, especially with their record on employee relations.

Dave- well- theres a spill on some isle you can clean up, isnt there? Your in way above your head.

Michelle in
Thursday, August 28 at 09:37 AM

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