"Washington, DC – Nearly 100 Walmart workers from 17 states will come
to Washington, DC this week for a national organizing committee
meeting, and to brief Congressional staff on working conditions at
America’s number one private employer and why they need a union voice
in the workplace.

Workers from Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin,
will be available to speak to reporters following the briefing with
Congressional staff:

WHAT: Briefing for Congressional Staff and Press by Walmart Workers
WHEN: Thursday, April 30 at 10 AM
WHE Agriculture Committee Room, #328 Russell Senate Office Building

Despite Walmart’s long and well-documented history of anti-worker
activities, associates say they are emboldened by the election of
Barack Obama and the introduction of the Employee Free Choice Act in
Congress. Ten of these workers shared their stories in a new video,
released last week.

Walmart Workers for Change is a new campaign made up of thousands of
Walmart workers joining together to form a union and negotiate better
benefits, higher wages, and more opportunity for a better future.
The campaign is a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers
(UFCW), America’s neighborhood union. The UFCW represents 1.3 million
workers nationwide, with nearly one million working in the supermarket
industry. Many of UFCW members also work at national retail stores
such as Bloomingdales, Macys, H&M, Modell’s Sporting Goods, Saks Fifth
Avenue, RiteAid, CVS, and Syms."

So these overworked and undercompensated employees from 17 states have
enough time and money to take a couple of days off to travel to DC for
a demonstration? Is this a spontaneous decision?

Reporters should be asking whether these demonstrators are getting
compensation from the UFCW for their travel expenses, meals, time off,
and anything else.

After all, some people wouldn’t mind a job at Wal-Mart or anywhere
else in this economy. And if they’re getting on round-trip flights to
plead poverty in our nation’s capital in an effort to strip workers of
the secret ballot, I’d like to know who’s footing the bill.

Wouldn't you?

"Reginald P. Smithers, IIII, Esq." wrote in message
...
"Washington, DC - Nearly 100 Walmart workers from 17 states will come
to Washington, DC this week for a national organizing committee
meeting, and to brief Congressional staff on working conditions at
America's number one private employer and why they need a union voice
in the workplace.

Workers from Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin,
will be available to speak to reporters following the briefing with
Congressional staff:

WHAT: Briefing for Congressional Staff and Press by Walmart Workers
WHEN: Thursday, April 30 at 10 AM
WHE Agriculture Committee Room, #328 Russell Senate Office Building

Despite Walmart's long and well-documented history of anti-worker
activities, associates say they are emboldened by the election of
Barack Obama and the introduction of the Employee Free Choice Act in
Congress. Ten of these workers shared their stories in a new video,
released last week.

Walmart Workers for Change is a new campaign made up of thousands of
Walmart workers joining together to form a union and negotiate better
benefits, higher wages, and more opportunity for a better future.
The campaign is a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers
(UFCW), America's neighborhood union. The UFCW represents 1.3 million
workers nationwide, with nearly one million working in the supermarket
industry. Many of UFCW members also work at national retail stores
such as Bloomingdales, Macys, H&M, Modell's Sporting Goods, Saks Fifth
Avenue, RiteAid, CVS, and Syms."

So these overworked and undercompensated employees from 17 states have
enough time and money to take a couple of days off to travel to DC for
a demonstration? Is this a spontaneous decision?

Reporters should be asking whether these demonstrators are getting
compensation from the UFCW for their travel expenses, meals, time off,
and anything else.

After all, some people wouldn't mind a job at Wal-Mart or anywhere
else in this economy. And if they're getting on round-trip flights to
plead poverty in our nation's capital in an effort to strip workers of
the secret ballot, I'd like to know who's footing the bill.

Wouldn't you?

As long as you aren't paying what do you care?

Don White wrote:

As long as you aren't paying what do you care?


You're just encouraging that asshole, Don.

On Apr 30, 4:02*pm, "Don White" wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers, IIII, Esq." wrote in messagenews:ql0kv41bcg4ttagur6jklufopqv6hclm59@4ax .com...





"Washington, DC - Nearly 100 Walmart workers from 17 states will come
to Washington, DC this week for a national organizing committee
meeting, and to brief Congressional staff on working conditions at
America's number one private employer and why they need a union voice
in the workplace.

Workers from Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin,
will be available to speak to reporters following the briefing with
Congressional staff:

WHAT: Briefing for Congressional Staff and Press by Walmart Workers
WHEN: Thursday, April 30 at 10 AM
WHE Agriculture Committee Room, #328 Russell Senate Office Building

Despite Walmart's long and well-documented history of anti-worker
activities, associates say they are emboldened by the election of
Barack Obama and the introduction of the Employee Free Choice Act in
Congress. Ten of these workers shared their stories in a new video,
released last week.

Walmart Workers for Change is a new campaign made up of thousands of
Walmart workers joining together to form a union and negotiate better
benefits, higher wages, and more opportunity for a better future.
The campaign is a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers
(UFCW), America's neighborhood union. The UFCW represents 1.3 million
workers nationwide, with nearly one million working in the supermarket
industry. Many of UFCW members also work at national retail stores
such as Bloomingdales, Macys, H&M, Modell's Sporting Goods, Saks Fifth
Avenue, RiteAid, CVS, and Syms."

So these overworked and undercompensated employees from 17 states have
enough time and money to take a couple of days off to travel to DC for
a demonstration? *Is this a spontaneous decision?

Reporters should be asking whether these demonstrators are getting
compensation from the UFCW for their travel expenses, meals, time off,
and anything else.

After all, some people wouldn't mind a job at Wal-Mart or anywhere
else in this economy. *And if they're getting on round-trip flights to
plead poverty in our nation's capital in an effort to strip workers of
the secret ballot, I'd like to know who's footing the bill.

Wouldn't you?

As long as you aren't paying what do you care?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You'd better listen to Harry, you don't know what you're talking
about, dummy. ALL U.S. taxpayers ARE paying.
And again, your analogy is just plain stupid. Do you condone
everything that your government does if it doesn't cost you money?

wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:06 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers, IIII, Esq."
wrote:

in an effort to strip workers of
the secret ballot,

That is the only part of this that confuses me. How is removing the
secret ballot (the cornerstone of our democracy) establishing "free
choice". It sounds more like opening up the voters to intimidation.
Would anyone tolerate having public disclosure of how they voted in


The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 1409 / S. 560) puts the decision of
how to form a union in the hands of workers, not employers. Under the
measure, workers would continue the long-established process of
collecting signatures on cards from their coworkers indicating that they
support forming a union.

If a majority of workers sign cards voting for a union, and if those
cards are validated by the NLRB, the agency will certify the workers as
a union.

The employer would be legally required to recognize the workers’ union
and bargain with them.

Employees could still choose to use their signed cards to petition for
an NLRB election. But given the many flaws with that process, many will
choose to avoid conflict-ridden elections.


Under current law, management can refuse to recognize a union even when
100 percent of employees have signed union authorization cards, and even
if the employer has no reason to doubt the validity of the cards.

Instead, employers can insist on an election process that enables them
to take advantage of weak labor laws and launch a one-sided campaign to
intimidate their employees out of supporting a union. When workers try
and form unions, 91 percent of employers force employees to attend
one-on-one anti-union meetings with their supervisors, 51 percent coerce
workers into opposing unions with bribes or special favors, and 30
percent fire pro-union workers. In fact, these elections don’t measure
up to the most fundamental standards of democracy.

NLRB “elections” invite more coercion and intimidation than majority
sign-up. That’s why majority sign-up is so critical – it helps level the
playing field and offers workers a fair and direct path to form unions.
During NLRB elections, 46 percent of workers report management pressure
compared to only 14 percent of workers reporting union pressure during
majority sign-up. And it is very rare for workers who organized their
union through majority sign-up to report any incidence of union pressure.


"Free Choice" is needed in order to level the playing field. As it is
now, employers simply intimidate employees into not joining with the
union, even after enough cards are signed to hold an election.
Anti-union law firms make hundreds of millions of dollars every year
helping corporations skirt and break the laws that relate to joining unions.

Once Al Franken gets to the Senate, there will be a vote on this, and
now the odds are about even it will pass.

There are tens of millions of wealthy Republicans who feel that somehow
capital is more valuable than labor. Well, it isn't.

On Apr 30, 5:32*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:45:05 -0400, HK wrote:
If a majority of workers sign cards voting for a union, and if those
cards are validated by the NLRB, the agency will certify the workers as
a union.

If the union goons are collecting the cards, that is intimidating
employees who don't want a union into signing.
What is wrong with a secret ballot?

They don't get to come to your house and ask you in front of your kids
on the swing... This new law is intimidation and nothing else...

wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:45:05 -0400, HK wrote:

If a majority of workers sign cards voting for a union, and if those
cards are validated by the NLRB, the agency will certify the workers as
a union.

If the union goons are collecting the cards, that is intimidating
employees who don't want a union into signing.
What is wrong with a secret ballot?


The employers intimidate the workers...

Reginald P. Smithers, IIII, Esq. wrote:
"Washington, DC – Nearly 100 Walmart workers from 17 states will come
to Washington, DC this week for a national organizing committee
meeting, and to brief Congressional staff on working conditions at
America’s number one private employer and why they need a union voice
in the workplace.

Workers from Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin,
will be available to speak to reporters following the briefing with
Congressional staff:

WHAT: Briefing for Congressional Staff and Press by Walmart Workers
WHEN: Thursday, April 30 at 10 AM
WHE Agriculture Committee Room, #328 Russell Senate Office Building

Despite Walmart’s long and well-documented history of anti-worker
activities, associates say they are emboldened by the election of
Barack Obama and the introduction of the Employee Free Choice Act in
Congress. Ten of these workers shared their stories in a new video,
released last week.

Walmart Workers for Change is a new campaign made up of thousands of
Walmart workers joining together to form a union and negotiate better
benefits, higher wages, and more opportunity for a better future.
The campaign is a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers
(UFCW), America’s neighborhood union. The UFCW represents 1.3 million
workers nationwide, with nearly one million working in the supermarket
industry. Many of UFCW members also work at national retail stores
such as Bloomingdales, Macys, H&M, Modell’s Sporting Goods, Saks Fifth
Avenue, RiteAid, CVS, and Syms."

So these overworked and undercompensated employees from 17 states have
enough time and money to take a couple of days off to travel to DC for
a demonstration? Is this a spontaneous decision?

Reporters should be asking whether these demonstrators are getting
compensation from the UFCW for their travel expenses, meals, time off,
and anything else.

After all, some people wouldn’t mind a job at Wal-Mart or anywhere
else in this economy. And if they’re getting on round-trip flights to
plead poverty in our nation’s capital in an effort to strip workers of
the secret ballot, I’d like to know who’s footing the bill.

Wouldn't you?

McDonald's is hiring.

wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:45:05 -0400, HK wrote:

If a majority of workers sign cards voting for a union, and if those
cards are validated by the NLRB, the agency will certify the workers as
a union.

If the union goons are collecting the cards, that is intimidating
employees who don't want a union into signing.
What is wrong with a secret ballot?

If secret ballot is good enough for our political leadership it should
be good enough for unions.

On Apr 30, 6:01*pm, wrote:
On Apr 30, 5:32*pm, wrote:

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:45:05 -0400, HK wrote:
If a majority of workers sign cards voting for a union, and if those
cards are validated by the NLRB, the agency will certify the workers as
a union.

If the union goons are collecting the cards, that is intimidating
employees who don't want a union into signing.
What is wrong with a secret ballot?

They don't get to come to your house and ask you in front of your kids
on the swing... This new law is intimidation and nothing else...

Anyone over 5 feet tall, is intimidating to Justhate.......