In its complaint Thursday, Wal-Mart said the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and its subsidiary known as OURWalmart is trying to force the store into collective bargaining even though it is not the official union for Wal-Mart's employees. The UFCW represents over a million meat packers and food industry workers.
The complaint comes just days before Wal-Mart workers' plan to stage nationwide walkouts on Black Firday , arguably the biggest holiday shopping day for any U.S. store. Union-backed groups OUR Walmart and Making Change at Wal-Mart, along with a watchdog group Corporate Action Network are calling on the country's largest employer to end what they call retaliation against employees who speak out for better pay, fair schedules and affordable health care.
The planned walkouts build on an October strike that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles and spread to stores in 12 other cities. More than 100 workers joined in the October actions.
Wal-Mart said that while it respects its workers federally-protected right to express concerns, it will also act to protect its stores and customers "from illegal and unprotected conduct that threatens safety or business operations," such as protestors trespassing on Wal-Mart grounds and interfering with business.
What are your opinions of this walkout?Do you think this walkout can affect you and I, and if it does how will it?
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....interesting to see what will happen on Friday!
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P.S. Good inclusion of the video for those who want a quick update.
Nine people were arrested on Black Friday in California after protesting for the rights of the Walmart workers. These rights included higher wages and better healthcare for the workers. Three of those nine people arrested were Walmart workers who were apart of the walkout.
ReplyDeleteI would say that I completely agree with the workers on this incident. The workers are just doing whatever they can to make their voices heard and get their worker rights that are entitled to them by the the Government. If I was the owner of Wallmart, I would make sure to end this problem ASAP because it is giving WallMart a lot of negative media attention and also, I make try my best to make my workers happy because HAPPY WORKERS = HAPPY CUSTOMERS = MORE PROFIT :)
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