Wal-Mart has tried and will continue to try and keep their poorly paid workers from joining a union. Wal-Mart has shifted their tactics, besides attacking any thing that slightly resembles a union and threatening their workers with dismissal if they even think about organizing. Wal-Mart donates money to left and right wings of the Democrat party, along with the Republican Party, (the democrats receive nearly as much money as the republicans) especially congressional races; Wal- Mart targets primarily African-American and Hispanic representatives in poor areas, Why would these congressmen and women take money from a company who's essence, and policy to disintegrate the working standards of the working class in America.
Why would the democrat party leave their principle behind and take money from a low life greedy company as Wal mart? And then in their political stump speeches, they try and woo the voters of this country to support them for office, the money that these politicians are taking from Wal mart in my opinion is simply blood money from the Devil himself.
Organized labor should ban together and refuse to support any political figure if they take one-cent from Wal-Mart. If not, the abuse from this company to its workers will never cease. All you union brothers and sisters who shop at Wal-Mart should be ashamed of yourselves and should stop feeding the union busting giant, after all you will be protecting all union job's in the long run, and you will be helping someone else to organize so they too can receive good pay and decent benefits. If Wal Mart accomplishes their mission, stopping workers from organizing as they have been, it will not be long until other companies will follow suit, using the same tactics, even going one-step further and busting the already established unions. We must always strive to further the unions in all work places.
Wal-Mart has at least 80 class-action lawsuits in 41 states pending against it.
Wal-Mart illegally denied full rest or meal breaks in violation of state wage and hour laws--a violation that may cost the company $2 billion.
Wal-Mart abuses women, and is the defendants in the biggest sex discrimination case in history.
Wal-Mart is a habitual tax-dodger.
Wal-Mart's heirs buy expensive paintings but won't give their workers decent health care.
Wal-Mart sued a disabled woman, demanding she give back money she won in a settlement.
Wal-Mart exploits children in Mexico.
Wal-Mart lead a global corporate lobbying campaign to block a very modest improvement in Chinese labor laws--because Wal-Mart's business model depends on exploiting cheap labor, here and abroad.
Here is the list just for the 2008 cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the House:
Altmire, Jason (D-PA) $12,000
Arcuri, Michael (D-NY) $10,000
Baird, Brian (D-WA) $2,500
Barrow, John (D-GA) $10,000
Becerra, Xavier (D-CA) $6,000 Berry, Marion (D-AR) $6,000 Bishop, Sanford D Jr (D-GA)$5,000 Boren, Dan (D-OK) $7,500 Boswell, Leonard L (D-IA)$5,000 Boucher, Rick (D-VA) $6,000 Boyd, Allen (D-FL) $6,500 Butterfield, G K (D-NC) $3,500 Cardoza, Dennis (D-CA) $2,500 Chandler, Ben (D-KY) $2,500 Christian-Green, Donna (D-VI) $1,000 Clarke, Yvette D (D-NY) $1,000 Cleaver, Emanuel (D-MO) $1,000 Clyburn, James E (D-SC) $6,000 Cohen, Stephen Ira (D-TN)$2,000 Cooper, Jim (D-TN) $5,000 Cramer, Bud (D-AL) $2,500 Cuellar, Henry (D-TX) $7,000 Davis, Artur (D-AL) $7,500 Davis, Lincoln (D-TN) $5,000 Donnelly, Joe (D-IN) $5,000 Edwards, Chet (D-TX) $10,000 Ellsworth, Brad (D-IN) $12,500 Etheridge, Bob (D-NC) $2,000 Gonzalez, Charlie A (D-TX)$6,000 Gordon, Bart (D-TN) $5,000 Green, Gene (D-TX) $3,500 Hill, Baron (D-IN) $10,000 Hinojosa, Ruben (D-TX) $5,000 Holden, Tim (D-PA) $2,500 Hooley, Darlene (D-OR) $1,000 Hoyer, Steny H (D-MD) $6,000 Jackson Lee, Sheila (D-TX) $2,500 Johnson, Hank (D-GA) $1,000 Kilpatrick, Carolyn Cheeks (D-MI)$4,000 Kind, Ron (D-WI) $7,000 Klein, Ron (D-FL) $10,000 Larsen, Rick (D-WA) $2,500 Larson, John B (D-CT) $3,500 Lewis, John (D-GA) $2,500 Lofgren, Zoe (D-CA) $2,000 Maloney, Carolyn B (D-NY)$1,000 Matheson, Jim (D-UT) $5,000 McDermott, Jim (D-WA) $1,000 McIntyre, Mike (D-NC) $1,000 Meek, Kendrick B (D-FL) $7,500 Meeks, Gregory W (D-NY) $7,500 Melancon, Charles J (D-LA)$6,500 Moore, Dennis (D-KS) $3,500 Moran, Jim (D-VA) $2,500 Neal, Richard E (D-MA) $2,000 Oberstar, James L (D-MN)$1,000 Ortiz, Solomon P (D-TX) $3,000 Pastor, Ed (D-AZ) $5,000 Payne, Donald M (D-NJ) $1,000 Peterson, Collin C (D-MN)$5,500 Pomeroy, Earl (D-ND) $5,000 Rangel, Charles B (D-NY)$5,500 Reyes, Silvestre (D-TX) $5,500 Richardson, Laura (D-CA)$2,000 Rodriguez, Ciro D (D-TX)$10,000 Ross, Mike (D-AR) $5,000 Ruppersberger, Dutch (D-MD)$4,500 Salazar, John (D-CO) $7,000 Sanchez, Loretta (D-CA) $5,500 Scott, David (D-GA) $5,000 Scott, Robert C (D-VA) $2,000 Shuler, Heath (D-NC) $10,000 Sires, Albio (D-NJ) $2,000 Skelton, Ike (D-MO) $3,000 Snyder, Vic (D-AR) $2,000 Spratt, John M Jr (D-SC)$1,000 Tanner, John (D-TN) $9,000 Tauscher, Ellen (D-CA) $5,000 Taylor, Gene (D-MS) $5,000 Thompson, Bennie G (D-MS)$7,500 Thompson, Mike (D-CA) $4,500 Tiberi, Patrick J (R-OH)$2,500 Towns, Edolphus (D-NY) $3,000 Watt, Melvin L (D-NC) $3,500 Waxman, Henry A (D-CA) $2,500 Wilson, Charlie (D-OH) $5,000 *Wynn, Albert R (D-MD) $5,000
In the Senate:
Baucus, Max (D-MT) $7,000
Landrieu, Mary L (D-LA) $5,000
Lincoln, Blanche (D-AR) $2,000
McCaskill, Claire (D-MO)$5,000
Pryor, Mark (D-AR) $3,000
Salazar, Ken (D-CO) $2,000
The Wall Street Journal article reveals the background in a piece about Wal-Mart's internal political drive to organize its managers to vote Republican in the coming election as a strategy to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act, the single-most important legislative priority for organized labor: "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. "In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside for workers if stores were to be unionized." And "The meeting leader said, 'I am not telling you how to vote, but if the Democrats win, this bill will pass and you won't have a vote on whether you want a union,'" said a Wal-Mart customer-service supervisor from Missouri.
The Employee Free Choice Act, the single-most important legislative priority for organized labor: Would make it easier for workers to form a union. Wal Mart is afraid if a democrat is elected in the fall, they will lose a good portion of their power. Wal Mart's strongest fear is that they will lose the ability to exploit their slave labor, which has been the companies trade mark and mission, thus reducing the huge profits that the company has enjoyed for years off the sweat of the brow of their workers.
It is sad that the United States of America, the land of milk and honey, has allowed its own citizens to become third world workers with third world pay Shame on You America and when I say shame on you America I am referring to you the ordinary American citizen who are allowing these human rights travesties to continue.