The latest news in the Walmart labor protests — which have included walkouts and marches in Dallas, San Diego, Chicago and Los Angeles — is the threat of a strike on Black Friday. That’s the day after Thanksgiving, widely considered the busiest, and most lucrative, retail day of the year.
Some 200 angry protesters showed up at a meeting of investors and analysts earlier Wednesday at Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. Under discussion at the meeting was Walmart’s intent to go head-to-head with Amazon and offer same-day delivery.
Walmart is the world’s largest private employer and has long been a target of workers’ rights groups, who advocate higher wages, more flexibility in hours and an end to the punishments (reduced shifts, for instance) they claim are meted out to workers seeking to unionize.
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Walmart’s workers have generally voted against the unions (which is why people in Brooklyn are required to overpay for things unless they drive out of town to shop at Walmarts and Sams Clubs). It is unlikely the handful of (probably hired) union advocates will disrupt much unless they resort to terrorism, which isn’t their style. If Walmart’s workers were listening to the union bosses, they would have voted for, rather than against, the union. YWN’s reliance on a clearly biased news sources suggests poor judgement.
I guess the evil unions have located some of their famous “Rent-A-Mob” folks.
Down with unions!