Wal-Mart Warns Workers Of Democratic Win

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.

According to about a dozen Wal-Mart employees who attended such meetings in seven states, Wal-Mart executives claim that employees at unionized stores would have to pay hefty union dues while getting nothing in return, and may have to go on strike without compensation. Also, unionization could mean fewer jobs as labor costs rise ...

The Wal-Mart human-resources managers who run the meetings don't specifically tell attendees how to vote in November's election, but make it clear that voting for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama would be tantamount to inviting unions in, according to Wal-Mart employees who attended gatherings in Maryland, Missouri and other states.

"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. "I am not a stupid person. They were telling me how to vote," she said.

T4R-Wal Mart is ultimately doomed. As the price of oil rises, it will no longer be feasible to make cheap goods overseas and ship them here. It will cost too much to both manufacture and ship the stuff. As resources become scarce, we will need to start making quality products that last, instead of junk that breaks within a year.Wal-Mart has a business plan which is competitive only because it dumps it's poverty level paid employees on the tax-paid social welfare systems of the communities in which it embeds itself, then It further destroys the economy of these communities by driving out small businesses. Of course they are afraid of empowering Labor.