BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 07:04 AM

Martin and Doug, your hypocrisy is sometimes too much to take. You are the frst to chastise the old hippies, and talk about traditional values. How exactly does breaking the law of the land over and over square with these values of yours? This company gets busted over and over for illegal activity and you act like they are fine, just a few bac apples.

Shallow is the only description for your attitude. As long as they dress it up nice, that is fine with you.

Disgusting.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: dianavan
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 03:56 AM

"too cheap to look at the real cost of what you're doing when you shop at WalMart," that says it all.

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: Bearheart
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 06:26 PM

Actually there are lots of folks who care about this issue. Some of them are just too busy taking action on other web sites to see what's up here. Thanks to the mudcatters who do care.

I certainly know lots of really poor folks who shop at Wal-Mart because they don't feel they have a choice.

My guess is that those aren't the folks who are rallying in support of Wal-Mart here-- Too bad, because if you have the bucks to support an alternative, you'd REALLY be supporting capitalism (ie, healthy competition in the market place). As it is you will find yourselves, down the road, without alternatives, and paying top dollar, because that's what Wal-Mart aims to do-- drive everyone else out so that it has sole propriatorship in the marketplace! And all because you are too cheap to look at the real cost of what you're doing...

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: Once Famous
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 05:23 PM

Yeah, I mean really. I went there today and bought some stuff and the place was doing a fine business. No one was bitching and everyone was paying less and saving money.

So, your thread has zero impact and you completely waste your time.

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: DougR
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 05:15 PM

That does not necessarily mean there is anything wrong with the barrel, however.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: DougR
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 05:14 PM

Does anyone care if there is any truth to it? Keep spereading the news! :>)

Ron: I don't know what you expect me (who has no objection to Wal-Mart). There are rotten apples in every barrel.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 12:37 PM

There's also a story circulating that WalMart was busted for transporting illegal alien to clean their stores. Any truth to it?

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 08:45 AM

... or honest ones ...

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 07:07 AM

Well, Ron, you may have a long wait seein' as the Bushites are a tad touchy these days... You are more than likely just going to get Martinized with some reference to bodily functions or parts... That seems to be the "usual" reponse these days as we are now being barraged daily with Bush and Bush supporter wrong doings..

BTW, didn't a court recently order Walmart to compensate it employees millions of dollars for underfunding their health insurance? I don't remember the datails but thought, upon hearing or reading it, "Hmmmm, no wonder the Bushites are so intent on getting rid of liberal judges?"...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: Ron Davies
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 06:54 AM

"Coughlin" is the correct spelling.

Subject: BS: Walmart: Union-Busting SOP
From: Ron Davies
Date: 10 Apr 05 - 06:42 AM

Fascinating front-page article in the Wall St. Journal, (that leftist rag) 8 April 2005, on misdoings of the long-time #2 man at that pillar of corporate propriety and stalwart Bush supporter, Walmart.

Thomas M. Couglin, # 2 at Walmart for 5 years, "abruptly resigned on March 25 from his board seat after Wal-Mart found what it said was a pattern of expense-account abuses and the use of false invoices to obtain reimbursements". Mr. Couglin's "total compensation" was more than $6 million last year. Walmart itself has found "questionable transactions totalling between $100,00 and $500,000."

What's particularly intriguing is how Mr. Coughlin covered up and plans to defend himself.

He would ask for expense payments to be paid without any receipts, saying it was to be used for a "union project".

"Mr. Couglin told several Wal-Mart employees that the money was actually being used for anti-union activities, including paying union staffers to tell him of pro-union workers in stores, according to people familiar with the matter." The false invoices, Mr. Couglin told these people, were "simply a roundabout way of compensating him for out-of-pocket expenses in his anti-union campaign".

"If Mr. Couglin did pay union staffers for information, it would represent a criminal offense under the federal Taft-Hartley Act..."

Mr. Couglin's defense to charges of misappropriation, according to the Journal, will include the "union project". He will allege he paid former, not current, union people--thus avoiding a charge of criminal activity. However, according to Fred Feinstein, former general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, these payments still "could violate the National Labor Relations Act and carry civil penalties".

Even if the "union project" never existed, using it as a defense shows crystal-clear the corporate culture at Walmart--union busting is A-OK, even straying over the border into criminal activity once in a while. After all, none of this came out til very recently, so the spokesmen for Walmart had complete and convenient deniability.

In the grand tradition of shooting the messenger, the Walmart whistle-blower has now been fired by Walmart.

Where there's smoke...

OK, defenders of Walmart--Doug R., Larry K et al.--- the ball's in your court.