Re: Walmart

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"[UFCW organizing leader Mike] Leonard says his dpartment receives
approximately 100 web-generated messages daily from Wal-Mart workers ...
that organizers turn into contacts." (Labor Notes, April 2004, p. 7)

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Date:    Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:56:43 -0800
From:    Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Walmart

This last weekend I participated in a forum on Wal-Mart.  A large number
of Wal-Mart workers showed up to vigorously defend their employer.  They
were obviously working-class people and not professional spokesman.

Several mentioned their salaries.  I responded that given their obvious
intelligence, they deserved a far better income.  Their answer was that
Wal-Mart was the only job that they could find.

Is the Chico behavior that common -- that Wal-Mart confined a retinue of
such devoted workers who would volunteer a Sunday afternoon to defend
their employer?
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Charles Andrews
http://www.laborrepublic.org