[Peace-discuss] Elections and activist Wal-Mart

[Karen Medina]

>       Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats: report

I guess this means that all the Wal-Mart employees will be voting for Obama then. 

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>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Elections and activist Wal-Mart  
>To: peace discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>   Got this from Astrid Berkson, and I just thought it
>   might interest folks since there seems to be an
>   ongoing discussion about the elections on this list
>   ...
>   -Ricky
>
>   [IMG]
>
>       Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats: report
>
>   Fri Aug 1, 2008 7:23am EDT
>
>   (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is mobilizing U.S.
>   store managers to lobby against Democrats in
>   November's presidential election, fearing they will
>   make it easier for workers to unionize, The Wall
>   Street Journal reported on Friday.
>
>   In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart managers and
>   department heads have been summoned to mandatory
>   meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside
>   for workers if store workers unionize, the paper
>   said.
>
>   About a dozen employees who attended meetings in
>   seven states said executives stressed employees
>   would have to pay hefty union dues and get nothing
>   in return, and might have to go on strike without
>   compensation, and warned that unionization could
>   force the company to cut jobs as labor costs rise,
>   the Journal reported.
>
>   The Wal-Mart human-resources managers who have run
>   the meetings didn't tell those attending how to vote
>   in the November elections, but made it clear that
>   voting for the presumptive Democratic presidential
>   nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, would be tantamount to
>   inviting unions in, the Journals said.
>
>   Wal-Mart could not be reached immediately for a
>   comment.
>
>   (Reporting by Purwa Naveen Raman in Bangalore;
>   editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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