[JR.Roofing]

Obvious question :

WHO bankrolls Wal-Mart Watch ?

[Ben Mugged]

The Unions are attempting to get unionized businesses competitive by raising Wal-Marts rates to equal them.

labor unions are leading the political assault to overwhelm the individualistic traditions that made our nation great and to impose socialistic planning and regulation. labor unions are socialisms shock troops.

[GungaLaGunga]

Another 2-bit pro-union diatribe run in a paper that loves unions. God, they are beyond parody.

[Beagle8U]

The Walmart bashing from the Communist unions is getting old.

My sister worked at walmart in Michigan. She had healtcare and a retirement plan she was never offered in her previous health care job.

When she moved to Florida last month they had a job for her waiting, and gave her a raise the first day.

Anyone willing to work and show up does quite well at walmart, lazy union slugs however don't have the other 99% of workers willing to protect, and support them.

[MEGoody]

One of Wal-Mart's most vocal union-funded critics took out a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on the company to live up to the "moral responsibilities" of being the world's largest private employer by improving wages and health insurance.

I'll back the unions on this demand when union leadership lives up to its "moral responsibilities" and stops lining its pockets from the union dues coffers, and pushes all union members to put in a full day's work for a day's pay.

That's not going to happen any time soon.

[jonno]

...calling on the company to live up to the "moral responsibilities...

Sounds like something out 'Atlas Shrugged'.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Unions are good. Just look what they did to GM!

And it's just a matter of time before GM defaults on its pension obligations and turns them over to the good old US taxpayer.

[ridesthemiles]

I ,for one, am sick and tired of all the carping about Wal-Mart.

You don't HAVE to work there if you don't want to.

Many of the employees are semi-retired or "retired". They have other sources of income. But, some don't have enough to keep up with $3+ gallon gas. Some just missed the activity of being out of the house every day. They have other sources of "health insurance" and they don't need anything from Wal-Mart. It is voluntary on their part. Also, alot of Wal-Mart employees can only work part time due to kids, etc. Some are so poorly educated they cannot work successfully in a smaller Mom-Pop atmosphere. They can be kept busy stocking shelves at Wal-Mart and are off welfare.

The prices at Wal-Mart are a direct reflection of the fact that it is NOT a union store. For the local UNION grocery store to sell me a roll of Viva paper towels for $2.79 each and for Wal-Mart to charge me $1.79 is a perfect example. This isn't a "different product" made especially for Wal-Mart like some appliances in some stores. This is an everyday item. Laundry soap is about half price at Wal-Mart.

The unions have lost their power with their shenanigans. Watch clostly the actions of the SEIU with their high membership of illegal intruder crimmigrants. They have a dog in this fight, don't think otherwise. When Wal-Mart gives up it's independence and gets hammered by the unions, it will be a death knell.

Wal-Mart pays alot of property taxes and sales taxes in whatever county they exist. Washoe County, Nevada didn't want a new Wal-Mart in their lower county. Wal-Mart built right across the line in Douglas County. Now all those sales and property taxes go to Douglas County. 2 Wal-Marts closed in Washoe County. Finally, one new one opened near the 395 bypass. Being penny-wise and pound foolish is the usual action of the politician. They are often heavily influenced by the unions. Follow the money.

Lots of retirees in this country cannot afford to shop in the union grocery stores. Alot of military families cannot afford it either. I live on $929 a month social security. Wal-Mart lets me have a choice.

Leave them alone.

If they close their stores and leave everyone unemployed, you will bitch about that, also.

[winner3000]

Thank you AP for the free propaganda you provide the unions. I doubt very much that if a conservative group had taken a one page ad in a major newspaper, the AP would have written an article going the same way. As a matter of fact, I could bet that they either would have ignored it totally, or would have written an article refuting every point, making the expense meaningless instead of magnifying it.

[Gabz]

Another day, another WalMart bashing...........

[synbad600]

The slimes would actually have to have readers for this to make a difference.

[PzLdr]

Betcha it includes a union shop down the line.

[Still Thinking]

They DO provide low cost health insurance. As far as taking away low cost jobs, many of those employed may not have skills adequate to justify hiring them at a higher wage. WalMart can't just make those more productive by executive fiat. If WalMart disappears as a potential employer, where are they supposed to go?

[bert]

screw the unions. We should develop laws to abolish the ability of unions to terrorize business with which they have no members.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Actually, Manpower, Inc. is the largest employer in the world. If anyone has ever worked the "Temp Circuit" for any time at all, you know what a cr@ppy job being a Temp is, versus working for Wal-Mart. *Rolleyes*

Manpower, Inc. must be unionized, or the union pukes would be taking out ads against them too, right? ;)

http://www.doleta.gov/brg/Business_Solutions/Manpower.cfm