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Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

by mtippett | August 1, 2008 at 01:48 pm

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Everyone's favorite happy face is starting to scowl. Apparently the chain is rooting for McCain.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.

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kferaday

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at 17:59 on August 1st, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Maybe Wal-mart just has our best interests in mind. After all if you started improving working conditions and wages all of those costs would have to be passed onto the consumer. Or worse yet maybe we'd start losing McJobs and then where would we be? Isn't that all we have left since they squeezed margins of their suppliers down so low they had to move manufacturing overseas?

mtippett

at 22:21 on August 1st, 2008

Things could get really desperate. We might have to re-open the local corner stores again.

Caoimhin1

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at 22:26 on August 1st, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.

julianw

at 13:04 on August 14th, 2008

Update:

Labor groups on Thursday asked federal regulators to look into whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc broke the law during company meetings with store managers where it warned about the consequences of a proposed labor law backed by Democrats.

At issue is whether Wal-Mart's discussion of the law, which would make it easier for workers to unionize, amounted to an effort to dissuade employees from voting for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Wal-Mart denies that it tried to influence voting.

WakeUpWalmart.com said it filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in conjunction with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and other groups.