AND! if there is any mention of a union. The Manager is to report to head office immediately. At which point a team of three union specialist fly out to rinky dinky down in their jet and take over temporary control of the Store. At which point they systematically go through the staff and find the person who is speaking to a union and fire them. They are VERY good at doing this and VERY quick. This is their only job and its almost and art form.
If you think Wal-Mart supports unions. It does exactly the opposite. It might be feeding you chump change with one hand. But its choking your child with the other.
Brother you know not of what you speak or at the very least are over dramatizing the issue as many do.
First off supporting trade unions that pay their membership in the $70 an hour range to errect their buildings is not chump change,not even close,the trade unions walmart supports helps pay the salaries of men who are proven to stay at their job more than a few months with most being in the life long carrerr catagory,the trade unions that walmart supports are stable high paying jobs .
Ok now,on to walmarts anti "inhouse" union policy.
This is the one thing you are correct about,walmart has taken a stance against ANY INHOUSE unionization of its work force,let's look at the reasons why it is in walmarts best interest & in the interest of the consumer for walmart to remain non union.
What could the possible benifits be to walmart for becoming a union shop ?
Better employee training offered by unions ? ,i think not,it dont take a rocket scientist to stock a shelf,not one area of walmarts day to day operations needs any real training above 7th grade skill level.
Long term devoted employees ?,again i think not,the average length of employment of any low paying job like food service or commercial food workers is not lenghty,employees use places like walmart & (meijers who just so happens to be a union shop) as a stop gap until they find better paying employment.
Higher productivity due to slightly higher wages ? ,walmart as a business allready runs like a finely tuned machine,how would raising wages increase employee productivity when walmarts entire hourly work is still looking for a better job the day they hire on.
Lets take the wage issue one step further,how much would walmart need to raise the employee wage to convince a employee to make a long term carrer at the company,lets leave management positions out of the ecomomic end of this discussion for the sake of making sense of walmarts reasoning.
Weather a person loves ther job at walmart or not,sooner or later the economics of commercial food work are going to force that employee to look for more suitable work in order to move up in life,this applies to unionized commercial food service as well as walmart,it's impossible to stay a stock boy for 20 years & be able to pursue the american dream,economics & the sheer buying power of the people will not allow such a lengthy stay,there are only so many high paying management positions open at any one time,the rest of jobs available are very low skill level with a massively high turn over ratio.
Im a 100% union man down to the bone when it makes sense,union membership can be a great thing,great for the economy,great for corporate,great for labor & great for the consumer but only when clear cut benifits of unionization can be shown across the board,in this case the only ones would benifit would be the union proper,their benifit would be from due's collections.
Show me how walmart going union would benifit all involved if im off base here .
