red states rule
11-28-2013, 04:22 AM
Looks like unions are making a desperate attempt for attention as they watch their ranks continue to shrink. If you are one of the millions hitting the stores later today, you probably will not see any of these fake and paid protestors at your local Wal Mart
The “widespread, massive strikes and protests” targeting (http://www.thenation.com/blog/176054/walmart-workers-plan-widespread-massive-strikes-and-protests-black-friday-2013#) Wal-Mart on Black Fridayhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/23/black-friday-union-strikes-against-walmart-likely-to-fizzle/#) will almost certainly fall flat, says one union watchdog closely monitoring the labor group planning the pickets.
OUR Walmart, a close affiliate of the massive United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), is threatening the big-box chain with crippling strikes and angry crowds during next week’s crucial Black Friday sale unless the company raises worker wages.
The planned strike, along with a series of smaller pickets preceding it, have been heavily hyped in the left-wing media. “We do expect [the protests] to be larger than last year because we have so many more members and so much more community support,” the head of a labor advocacy group told (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/walmart-protests-2013_n_4319420.html) the Huffington Post on Thursday.
But Justin Wilson, managing director of the pro-business Center for Union Facts, says reporters predicting widespread walkouts and parking lot chaos are being played.
“The emperor has no clothes here,” he told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “This is not even a strike, it’s a picket. And it’s a picket by union leaders, not Wal-Mart employeeshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/23/black-friday-union-strikes-against-walmart-likely-to-fizzle/#).”
Wilson’s organization sent observers to labor union meetings designed to plan and promote the Black Friday walkouts in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Raleigh. Although touted by union leaders as crucial to the strike’s success, according to Wilson nearly no one attended the events.
Only two union activists — not Wal-Mart employees — showed up to the Chicago meeting on Nov. 12. Just four managed to make it to Pittsburgh’s strike planning committee this Wednesday. And an expected meeting in Raleigh earlier this month was canceled, apparently due to a complete lack of interest.
“At the Chicago one, instead of having a meeting talking about the strike they had people making phone calls, trying to get people to turn out for the strikes,” Wilson claimed. “And even after making a fair number of calls, no one actually even wanted to come.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/23/black-friday-union-strikes-against-walmart-likely-to-fizzle/#ixzz2lvkozSY4
The “widespread, massive strikes and protests” targeting (http://www.thenation.com/blog/176054/walmart-workers-plan-widespread-massive-strikes-and-protests-black-friday-2013#) Wal-Mart on Black Fridayhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/23/black-friday-union-strikes-against-walmart-likely-to-fizzle/#) will almost certainly fall flat, says one union watchdog closely monitoring the labor group planning the pickets.
OUR Walmart, a close affiliate of the massive United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), is threatening the big-box chain with crippling strikes and angry crowds during next week’s crucial Black Friday sale unless the company raises worker wages.
The planned strike, along with a series of smaller pickets preceding it, have been heavily hyped in the left-wing media. “We do expect [the protests] to be larger than last year because we have so many more members and so much more community support,” the head of a labor advocacy group told (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/walmart-protests-2013_n_4319420.html) the Huffington Post on Thursday.
But Justin Wilson, managing director of the pro-business Center for Union Facts, says reporters predicting widespread walkouts and parking lot chaos are being played.
“The emperor has no clothes here,” he told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “This is not even a strike, it’s a picket. And it’s a picket by union leaders, not Wal-Mart employeeshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/23/black-friday-union-strikes-against-walmart-likely-to-fizzle/#).”
Wilson’s organization sent observers to labor union meetings designed to plan and promote the Black Friday walkouts in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Raleigh. Although touted by union leaders as crucial to the strike’s success, according to Wilson nearly no one attended the events.
Only two union activists — not Wal-Mart employees — showed up to the Chicago meeting on Nov. 12. Just four managed to make it to Pittsburgh’s strike planning committee this Wednesday. And an expected meeting in Raleigh earlier this month was canceled, apparently due to a complete lack of interest.
“At the Chicago one, instead of having a meeting talking about the strike they had people making phone calls, trying to get people to turn out for the strikes,” Wilson claimed. “And even after making a fair number of calls, no one actually even wanted to come.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/23/black-friday-union-strikes-against-walmart-likely-to-fizzle/#ixzz2lvkozSY4