Okay I got another good article from my partna in crime, RiQ, regarding some shocking political news. Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is afraid that Barack Obama will be elected as next president. You ask why? Well, If Obama (who supports the Employee Free Choice Act) wins, Wal-Mart employees might unionize. Walmart is so worried about Obama winning, the store managers have meetings trying to encourage staff to vote against him in the upcoming election.The managers may not say it directly, but the insinuation 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.

A bit of history…Over the course of its 48-year history, the company has successfully barred many attempts by Wal-Mart employees to create unions for better pay and increased benefits which has caught the attention of organizations such as Human Rights Watch, which, in an exhaustive study titled Wal-Mart Is a Poster Child For What Is Wrong With Labor Laws, declared:

Walmart doesn’t want Obama as president because of his views on Wal-Mart’s anti-union stance.

Obama said last year:

“This is a much broader issue that Wal-Mart, but I think the battle to engage Wal-Mart and for them to examine their own corporate values and what their policies and approaches are to their workers and how they are going to be good corporate citizens, I think, is absolutely vital.”

Obama went on to compare Wal-Mart to another mega-chain:

“If Costco can do that, it means Wal-Mart can do it. And if Wal-Mart does it, then what we’re going to see is other companies recognizing that they have some obligations not only to their shareholders but also to their stakeholders, and that’s workers and communities in which they’re located.”

In the article written by David Knowles, he xposed that “Wal-Mart, whose first quarter profits in 2008 rose 6.9% to a total of $3.02 billion, has not exactly shown the greatest of concern for its employees’ well-being. A veritable blizzard of lawsuits have been filed against the company regarding labor relations”

So will management of Wal-Mart stores be successful on trying to persuade their staff to vote AGAINST Obama? Well here’s what an employee had to say about it:

“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.

With Obama in office, Wal-Mart might just get the “union” they want…

Let us know what you think about this? Do you think Wal-Mart is wrong for trying to persuade their staff to not vote for Barack Obama? Leave your comments!

Source Walmart Worried Obama Will Win Article

Thanks RiQ!

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