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Josh Eidelson: Walmart Is a Pioneer in Union-Busting
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171418/josh-eidelson-walmart-pioneer-union-bustingWalmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg has dismissed the Walmart worker strike as a fringe effort that will have no impact on the most profitable day of the year. “We are preparing to have our best Black Friday ever,” Lundberg said in a statement. But while the PR team promotes an air of indifference, mandatory meetings—in which Walmart managers imply striking employees could be fired—say otherwise. Nation contributor Josh Eidelson joined Democracy Now! to cut through Walmart’s mixed messages about Friday’s strike. The megastore has a reason to be nervous: if the strikers can win, it will send a message to low-wage, anti-labor corporations everywhere.
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once they adopted the theory that the strike was about "black friday" only, they've closed their own
minds as to what is actually happening in their stores.
The higher ups are probably thinking, "great, that's over. let's get back to screwing the employees over".
Little do they realize this is a long drawn out battle, not a skirmish.
