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Report: Wal-Mart among worst offenders of worker’s right to organize
When we hear about Wal-Mart being in the ‘top-five’ of something, we usually assume it’s in CEO salary, quarterly earnings, highest number of lawsuits pending against them or worst places ever to buy bassinets. Today it’s among the worst corporations on worker’s right to organize. The International Labor Rights Forum [ILRF] released a report today called: “Working for Scrooge: 5 Worst Companies for the Right to Associate,” and guess who made the list? We weren’t surprised either. Wal-Mart has a very real history of anti-union propaganda and bigotry.
The report cites several of the more highly-publicized anti union stories such as Jonquiere, Quebec where a tire and lube shop was shut down after workers successfully unionized it and Jacksonville, Texas, where the meat department of a retail outlet successfully unionized and Wal-Mart responded by shutting down the meat department in every Wal-Mart, nation-wide. Will the newly-unionized Saskatchewan outlet meet the same fate? We sure hope not…
Other finalists included: Dole, Del-Monte, Russell Athletic, and Nestle. The union-busting must be stopped. Write your local representative and tell them to support the Employee Free Choice Act today!
Posted by Luke West on Tuesday, December 09, 2008
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Thanks for highlighting this report! You can send an e-mail to Wal-Mart and the other companies on the list here: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/List08
Tim Newman in Washington, DC
Wednesday, December 10 at 03:50 PM
New unemployment claims hit 26-year high.
The Labor Department reports this morning show new claims for unemployment benefits hit 573,000 last week, the highest level in 26 years. The number of people continuing to claim jobless benefits also “jumped much more than expected, increasing by 338,000 to 4.4 million. Economists expected a small increase to 4.1 million. … The increase in continuing claims was the largest jump since November 1974.”~~~~~~~~~~12/11/08, Think Progress
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