Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it has held meetings with U.S. store managers warning them of issues that could arise if Democrats win power and pass a law that would make it easier for workers to unionize, but stressed it was not telling workers how to vote.Now, call me paranoid, but when a company that has a larger economic presence than a small-to-medium country starts "suggesting" to its employees on how to vote ... well ... shoots ... I guess I'll just wait in line for my soylent green like everyone else ...
Aug 1, 2008
and it begins ...
So you know how there's about a thousand movies that depict some kind of bleak world future where corporations run everything, and its just soooo crazy because that would never happen, right? Besides, everyone knows that aside from lobbyists, special interest groups and huge private "gifts" given to politicians; corporations don't involve themselves with the government! They just get politicians to sign bills that favor their industry, hand out cute logo-emblazoned golf balls, and control the government from behind the scenes. Big business would never outright tell people how or who to vote for ...
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While not a Walmart apologist, I will say that Walmart is able to keep prices low by religiously avoiding unions in their workforce. Not that unions are all bad, but do we really need a checkout clerk wanting 20 bucks an hour, and with a union backing them up?
I agree that unions can go "mad" with power. I deal with this issue twice a year running festivals that take place in "unionized" halls where there must be present, at all times, 2 security personnel, an electrician, an "engineer" and various others all making OVER $20 an hour (time and half on Sundays!) ... My point with this story is really about the politics, not the unions. It could have been that Democrats were going to push a bill for unisex bathrooms. That issue is really secondary in that, we now have corporations OPENLY (because I'm sure this is really nothing new) telling its employees how to vote.
We don't need a checkout clerk making $20 an hour, but that checkout clerk should feel confident that their wage WON'T drop below a livable wage, and that's where unions can come in handy. To me, its the equivalent of our governments warrant-less wire-tap program. Pretty much saying; "Shut up and don't worry about it, we only spy on the bad guys and its for your own good." The workers would be lucky to have as much control over their lives as the management who "manage" them.
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