Walmart Workers Going On Strike

Poor things. They have to work on Thanksgiving. The union mentality is one of the things that is wrong with America.

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Walmart employees began walking off the job this week in advance of Black Friday, when three-union backed groups expect thousands of protests nationwide.​

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In October, a strike at a Walmart in Los Angeles spread to stores in 12 other cities, with local and national leaders holding protests at more than 200 stores for better pay, fairer schedules and more affordable health care. Since that time, workers have since walked off the job in Dallas and Richmond, Calif., and other upcoming strikes and protests are expected at stores in Chicago, Miami, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.​

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Charlene Fletcher, who works with her husband William at a Walmart in Duarte, Calif., became enraged when she learned that both were scheduled to work on Thanksgiving, missing the holiday with their children, ages 2 and 5.​

“It’s heartbreaking to miss the holiday with them, and it’s just one more way that Walmart is showing its disregard for our families,” Fletcher said in a statement. “But when our co-workers speak out about problems like these, Walmart turns their schedules upside down, cuts their hours and even fires people. We’re going on strike for an end to Walmart’s attempts to silence its workers.”​

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Three groups — Making Change at Walmart, OUR Walmart and watchdog group Corporate Action Network — are now calling on the nation’s largest employer to end what they claim are retaliatory tactics against employees who seek out better working conditions.​

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In a statement to FoxNews.com, Walmart spokesman Dan Fogleman characterized the movement as "another exaggerated publicity campaign aimed at generating headlines to mislead" customers and employees.​

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"We have a great group of associates at Walmart," the statement read. "We’ll have more than one million associates working throughout the holiday weekend and they’re excited about our Black Friday plans this year. This is the Super Bowl for retailers and we’re ready.​

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"We’ve been working on our Black Friday plans for almost a year now and we’re prepared to have a great event. Our associates care about providing a great customer experience on Black Friday and we’re confident that’s what customers will have at Walmart this year."​

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Protests were held Thursday at Walmart stores in Eastvale and in Mira Loma, where six people were arrested for blocking traffic, KTLA reports.​

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Many customers, however, told KTLA they weren’t so convinced by the workers’ plans.​

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"If you come into a workplace knowing that's an agreement you might have to make, then that's your choice to have that job," shopper Rae Luce told the station.​

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/16/walmart-walkout-workers-mount-black-friday-job-action/#ixzz2CR8TMB69​

 

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9407926.htm

Saturday, November 17, 2012
Concerned over Walmart's performance, shareholder associates file new resolution on executive pay

Shareholders will have an opportunity to weigh in on executive pay at Walmart when they cast their ballots on Proposal #6, introduced by four shareholders who work at Walmart. Proposal #6 calls on the Walmart board to review executive performance pay goals to ensure they are not creating incentives that undermine shareholder value.

According to the filing CEO Mike Duke was paid $18.1million, a slight decrease from the $18.7 million he was paid last year. Duke’s incentive compensation is largely tied to Walmart’s Return on Investment (ROI), which has been declining over the past several years. His 2012 payout would have been smaller last year had the board not lowered the target ROI, the fifth consecutive year it has done so.

Mary Tifft, a 24-year Walmart employee in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and one of the shareholders who petitioned to place Proposal #6 on the ballot, said she hoped the proposal would bring more scrutiny to executive pay at Walmart. Tifft started buying Walmart shares through the company’s share purchase program in 1992, and currently owns 1,008 shares of Walmart stock.

The CEO makes more in an hour than the average Walmart employee makes in a year, btw.

 

Michael Duke's (Walmart's President & CEO) had a salary of $1.2 million...and bonuses of $17.5 million, in 2011.

I have no problem with his salary, but those bonuses are insane!

 

I have no problem with people who WORK for their salary, a CEO does not. Instead, he should make less than a coal miner, dock worker, etc. since their jobs are twice as difficult. And the bonuses are just a joke.

 

They do "work" a lot of hours in a week, but it's not physical so much as doing their best to look spiffy for stockholders, boards, employees, etc.

The corporate World is foreign to me, and doesn't seem to be based in any reality I'm aware of...maybe a parallel (yet insane) plane?...somewhere near the Republican HQ?

 

I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith.


I am not sure if that is what you were going for but it is the first thing that came to mind. lol

And that wasn't Stevie Wonder either!

 

Sounds like Stones.

...but yeah, I had that song running through my mind as well when I posted the image lol

I figured..."Why not?"... The Reps already think the guy is evil, right? May as well reinforce that in 'em, and give them something else to rant about at the same time...scaredicats that they are.

 

Sympathy for the Devil

So clever, though the devil actually lost the election.

 

Katsung? Is that you?

 

I thought it was Tomcorona

 

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More unionists going on strike. If you were planning on flying to LA for Thanksgiving, you might give it a second thought. Chaos breeds danger:

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Wal-Mart files legal complaint against growing protests ahead of Black Friday​

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Wal-Mart is taking legal action against its organized labor opponents, filing an unfair labor practice charge over widespread protests at its stores across the country — as well as rallies planned for Black Friday, considered the biggest shopping day of the year.

The company filed a complaint on Friday against the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, claiming the labor union — one of the nation's largest — has unlawfully disrupted business by staging protests at Wal-Mart's stores and warehouses around the country over the past six months.

The retail giant, which has roughly 1.3 million U.S. workers, is asking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an injunction against the rallies and pickets — even flash mobs — that have sprung up at stores nationwide, according to the Wall Street Journal.
"We are taking this action now because we cannot allow the UFCW to continue to intentionally seek to create an environment that could directly and adversely impact our customers and associates," Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar said in a statement obtained by Reuters. "If they do, they will be held accountable."

NLRB spokeswoman Nancy Cleeland said federal officials will decide quickly whether the complaint has merit and noted that, by statute, the agency must make a charge of illegal picketing a priority before all other cases.

The agency, she said, just decided two main issues: whether workers are picketing and if so, whether the picketing intended to unionize workers.

"This is a complicated case," Cleeland told The Associated Press, adding that if the labor board decides Wal-Mart's complaint has merit, the matter would then go to district court.

Wal-Mart workers protesting their employer complain of low wages, poor working conditions and inadequate health benefits, among other grievances. "Making Change," A Facebook page devoted to the protests, had more than 29,000 followers as of Monday afternoon.

Wal-Mart employees began walking off the job last week week ahead of Black Friday, when three union-backed groups expect thousands of protests nationwide.

"Wal-Mart is doing everything in its power to attempt to silence our voice," said Colby Harris, who works at a Wal-Mart store in Lancaster, Texas. "But nothing — not even this baseless unfair labor practice charge — will stop us from speaking out."

In October, a strike at a Wal-Mart store in Los Angeles spread to stores in 12 other cities, with local and national leaders holding protests at more than 200 stores for better pay, fairer schedules and more affordable health care. Since that time, workers have since walked off the job in Dallas and Richmond, Calif., and other upcoming strikes and protests are expected at stores in Chicago, Miami, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

Charlene Fletcher, who works with her husband, William, at a Wal-Mart in Duarte, Calif., became enraged when she learned that both were scheduled to work on Thanksgiving, missing the holiday with their children, ages 2 and 5.

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/19/wal-mart-files-legal-complaint-o-stop-growing-worker-strikes-ahead-black-friday/#ixzz2Cm1Aai00​

 

Who wouldn't have seen this coming:

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Why do you blame unions for everything in every case? It really is a two-way street and you seem to think that you're on a one-way. Are you really that naive or just that simple-minded? You only have to look at the abuses of employers throughout history, that ironically are making a comeback these days, and know that collective bargaining is the only logical recourse workers have. You don't seem to be able to recognize all the benefits they have won over the years for people like you. Blinded by your inability to see more than one side of an issue, you relentlessly see unions as the source of all problems in spite of the reality of history. You really are quite unique in your myopic perspective, good for you!

 

This is all they do, from the moment they wake up to when they tire themselves out with their idiocies:

They fear EVERYTHING.

 

They even fear the people that represent people just like themselves. I think the French used to call their fellow countrymen that helped the Nazi invaders Nazi sympathizers. Coin is kind of like a Plutocrat sympathizer. He knows who his betters are.

 

Is that a parrot?

 

Considering how often you quote Fox News, you might want to reconsider calling anyone else a parrot. Have you had a craving for crackers lately?