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One of my biggest rants will always be about Walmart and companies like them. Rich beyond belief and doling out meagerness in a way that would make Cinderella's stepmother blush.
Incredible.
But I can already tell this is going nowhere for the women who are trying to take a stand. All that will happen is they will lose the jobs and then the jobs will likely go to immigrant workers. Legal or not, those workers will take any job, and that makes things tough for the American workers who are trying to make a point.
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United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is largely backing OUR Walmart through its division, Making Change at Walmart, which is funding much of the organizing efforts of the associates. The union insists it cannot raise the standards for workers in the retail industry without changing Wal-mart first.
OUR Wal-mart organizer Erik Steinkamp knocks on the doors of Wal-mart associates to try to recruit them. He says many employees he talks to are still fearful of joining any sort of labor-related organization, even if it’s not a union, because of the threat of reprisal. Steinkamp got involved after a friend reached out to him at Raley’s, the grocery store where he works in California, and convinced him to join UFCW Local 8. Now he’s looking to “pay that forward,” by helping Walmart associates to organize through the union. Steinkamp said that when he talks to Walmart associates who do the same job, they usually make less than he does. “They are a better and stronger company, and they don’t pay their employees,” he said.
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Incredible.
But I can already tell this is going nowhere for the women who are trying to take a stand. All that will happen is they will lose the jobs and then the jobs will likely go to immigrant workers. Legal or not, those workers will take any job, and that makes things tough for the American workers who are trying to make a point.
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LINK TO ARTICLE
[excerpt]
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is largely backing OUR Walmart through its division, Making Change at Walmart, which is funding much of the organizing efforts of the associates. The union insists it cannot raise the standards for workers in the retail industry without changing Wal-mart first.
OUR Wal-mart organizer Erik Steinkamp knocks on the doors of Wal-mart associates to try to recruit them. He says many employees he talks to are still fearful of joining any sort of labor-related organization, even if it’s not a union, because of the threat of reprisal. Steinkamp got involved after a friend reached out to him at Raley’s, the grocery store where he works in California, and convinced him to join UFCW Local 8. Now he’s looking to “pay that forward,” by helping Walmart associates to organize through the union. Steinkamp said that when he talks to Walmart associates who do the same job, they usually make less than he does. “They are a better and stronger company, and they don’t pay their employees,” he said.
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