http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/business-gets-carded/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:49:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/business-gets-carded/#comment-44874 tom_sizemore Fri, 01 May 2009 15:04:19 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=7892#comment-44874 The argument as I understand it is: the unions got a law passed violating the employers freedom of association (The Wagner Act), but the law isn't working, so now we need to allow the union to coerce employees too, by getting rid of secret ballots. The argument as I understand it is: the unions got a law passed violating the employers freedom of association (The Wagner Act), but the law isn’t working, so now we need to allow the union to coerce employees too, by getting rid of secret ballots.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/business-gets-carded/#comment-44303 Daskinnybear Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:11:44 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=7892#comment-44303 i was fired from walmart one of the biggest anti union corparations today because i uttered the word union and was trying to see if anyone else at my store wanted to join one. they said/claimed I was late all the time and my work was unsatifactory as the reason I was fired. When fired they brought in a bunch of big guys from unloading and basically forced me to sign all these papers and said I wasnt allowed to own stock with thier company anymore. I remember one day that I was actually late I had to go pick up a medication for my sick grandmother, when asked why I was 10 minutes late I told them. thier response was walmart should come first on your list of priorities and iI was written up. The next to last week I worked ther they made me stay late for almost 20 hours of overtime as there was no one to cover my deptarment, when I was told I had to loose that time by taking longer unpaid lunches I refused and was written up for it. Another time they schedualed me to work at a time I specifically said I was unavailable to work and I was written up. To top it off they have anti union propaganda they make you sit through when you are hired and have even gone as far getting rid of whole parts of thier store. An example of this is they do not have butchers in thier store meat depts. as the butchers unionized. So they did away with the whole section and only have prepackaged meat now. Another example is a a whole store that went union, within the week to a month that store was closed permanetly. Just some food for thought from a first hand experience. As a side note my department manager was really sad to see me go and knew I was a quality worker, and had boosted sales 50-100% in my department. Also he knew that I regualry got compliments for my performance from customers, and that some repeats would specifically ask for me on my days or if Iwasnt there at a specific time. i was fired from walmart one of the biggest anti union corparations today because i uttered the word union and was trying to see if anyone else at my store wanted to join one. they said/claimed I was late all the time and my work was unsatifactory as the reason I was fired. When fired they brought in a bunch of big guys from unloading and basically forced me to sign all these papers and said I wasnt allowed to own stock with thier company anymore.
I remember one day that I was actually late I had to go pick up a medication for my sick grandmother, when asked why I was 10 minutes late I told them. thier response was walmart should come first on your list of priorities and iI was written up. The next to last week I worked ther they made me stay late for almost 20 hours of overtime as there was no one to cover my deptarment, when I was told I had to loose that time by taking longer unpaid lunches I refused and was written up for it. Another time they schedualed me to work at a time I specifically said I was unavailable to work and I was written up.
To top it off they have anti union propaganda they make you sit through when you are hired and have even gone as far getting rid of whole parts of thier store. An example of this is they do not have butchers in thier store meat depts. as the butchers unionized. So they did away with the whole section and only have prepackaged meat now. Another example is a a whole store that went union, within the week to a month that store was closed permanetly. Just some food for thought from a first hand experience.
As a side note my department manager was really sad to see me go and knew I was a quality worker, and had boosted sales 50-100% in my department. Also he knew that I regualry got compliments for my performance from customers, and that some repeats would specifically ask for me on my days or if Iwasnt there at a specific time.

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