She's in trouble

[delldude]

My source was the National Insitute of Health.

And do you think it is ok for companies to rake in millions and our government waste billions on foriegn aid and we have uninsured Americans?

Do you know the highest percentage of employed workers on government provided healthcare are Wal-Mart employees.

And right now it costs the government 1% to run Social Security, if they privatized it the cost would run over 10%.

Hey dude.......so far Wal Mart employees have rejected union representation.A cushy promise from management has sealed that....where's your union support when no one wants it?

Never said it was ok for companies to rake in mega bucks(just like the unions)....gov't ,if you check your facts ;has always wasted millions on foreign aid....so whats your beef?

And this horsecrap about the gov't running SSi.....don't you mean 'stealing from the fund'? And running the country...but before you do,tricky dickie ,I think brought that in....

Spew your perverted Dem mantra so others can decide your party is full of Pelosi crap....

 

[700UW]

There has not been a vote for Wal-Mart except for butchers in Texas and this is what wally world did.

Wal-Mart Butchers Force Anti-Union Retailer to Eat Crow (July 7, 2003)
By Cynthia Green

After elaborate trickery designed to blunt union activity, the world's largest retailer has been forced to recognize and bargain with a United Food and Commercial Workers local.

Wal-Mart has a long and ugly history of shady anti-union tactics, but a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge may have muzzled the company, at least temporarily.

Marking the first such labor victory at any of Wal-Mart's more than 3,200 U.S. stores, the NLRB's decision neuters the company ploy to void a successful union election by abruptly changing job descriptions.

In February of 2000, a dozen meat cutters in the Jacksonville, Texas, Wal-Mart voted for representation by UFCW Local 540. By July of that year, the company had abruptly replaced fresh meat with pre-packaged products in all of its stores, neatly eliminating the need for skilled meat cutters and rendering the election moot. The company was reportedly proud of its novel "union avoidance strategy."

Three years of legal battles finally produced a stunning win for the UFCW. In June 2003, an NLRB judge ordered Wal-Mart to restore the meat department to its prior structure, complete with meat-cutting, and to recognize and bargain with the union over the effects of any change to case-ready meat sales, for which purposes Local 540 will represent the workers.

"The elimination of work requiring their special skills greatly affected both job satisfaction and future earning potential," administrative law judge Keltner Locke wrote of the former meat cutters in his ruling.

"This is a historic decision—the first bargaining order issued against Wal-Mart in the United States," UFCW Executive Vice President Mike Leonard said. "It is a victory for all Wal-Mart workers who are fighting for a voice at work."

Al Zack, assistant director of the UFCW's strategic programs, said, "Wal-Mart's not above the law, and that's the message the decision sends to Wal-Mart workers."

But Zack noted that the judge ruled the bargaining unit non-existent, effective July 2000, when Wal-Mart unilaterally decided to move to pre-packaged meat.

"We're going to be appealing that part of this decision," Zack said, adding that Wal-Mart, too, is appealing other sections.

In a brief to be filed later this week, the UFCW will be arguing that there is a continuing "community of interest" that sets the meat cutters apart.

Though the judge disagreed with the union on the community-of-interest issue, he did find the former meat cutters still have separate supervision, distinct skill requirements, generally higher pay, are hired specifically for the meat department and transfer in and out of the department less frequently than in other areas of the stores, Zack said.

"These findings, we believe, help our appeal," Zack said.

The union does not know, however, how many workers it might now be representing, nor anything about their pay levels. The company has refused to hand over this and other basic worker information, but the judge has ordered that Wal-Mart comply.

Wal-Mart has indicated it will be appealing the information portion of the decision as well as the "status quo ante" section, which would re-establish the meat-cutting division in the department, Zack said.

A final decision by the NLRB in Washington is expected next summer, he said.

The judge's June decision sparked renewed interest in organizing by Wal-Mart workers across the country, Zack said.

"But there is still so much fear out there," Zack said. "Employees are deathly afraid that Wal-Mart will get rid of people" who try to organize themselves or who seek union representation, he said.

Wal-Mart has already informally settled on back pay to four illegally fired meat-department workers, and there have been other such settlements around the country, Zack said.

These actions prevent adjudicated decisions that can highlight the company's record of breaking the law. An established pattern can encourage the NLRB to seek stronger remedies, Zack said, adding that it's a long process.

"But I can't force people to give up the money when they need it," he said.

Wal-Mart's defeat in its battle with Local 540 comes amid a company-wide sex discrimination scandal.

More than a million current and former female Wal-Mart workers have prepared a lawsuit that could wind up being the largest job discrimination class action in history. Wal-Mart's own workforce data indicates that the company short-changes women on promotions and pay, plaintiffs alleged.

In other Wal-Mart news, the retail giant that has squeezed out countless family-owned small businesses across rural America faces an odd charge this week in a Coshocton, Ohio courtroom. A local man is suing the company for nearly $1 million, alleging that a half dozen dog food dishes fell off the store shelves and on to his head.

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world, employing more than one million workers in the U.S. and another 300,000 internationally. Its chief executive, Scott Lee, brought home more than $18 million in compensation in 2002, doubling his 2001 haul. The company's annual revenues are roughly $230 billion.

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Maryland Passes Health Care Law Aimed at Wal-Mart
The Maryland General Assembly approved legislation Thursday that would require Wal-Mart to pay more for employee health care.

The bill passed despite a veto by Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr. Lawmakers overruled Ehrlich's veto of the Fair Share Healthcare Act Fund by a vote of 88 - 50 in the House, with one abstention after the Senate voted 30 - 17.

The bill requires all employers with 10,000 or more employees to spend up to 8 percent of their total wages paid on employee healthcare benefits.

Right now, only Wal-Mart is affected by the law.

Anti-Wal-Mart groups are working to get other state legislatures to pass similar acts.

The law was welcomed by union-supported WalMartWatch.com, as well as AFL-CIO president John Sweeney.

Retail groups, on the other hand, blasted the move.

"This legislation makes no attempt to control skyrocketing healthcare costs, and it creates a hostile environment for Maryland retailers leading to fewer jobs, reduced tax revenues and a weakened economy," said RILA President Sandy Kennedy. "It sets a bad precedent for other state legislatures that want to shift the burden of healthcare costs onto retailers. Instead of mandating retailers pay a fixed amount for healthcare, lawmakers should address the real problem of healthcare costs and work to enact cost-reducing legislation."

In a statement, Wal-Mart spokesperson Sarah Clark noted that, "more than three-fourths of Wal-Mart associates have health insurance. And every Wal-Mart associate in Maryland -- both full-time and part-time -- can become eligible for health coverage that costs as little as $23 per month.

"This vote was never about health care. This was about partisan politics in the Maryland gubernatorial race. In allowing a bad bill to become a bad law, the General Assembly took a giant step backward and placed the special interests of Washington, D.C. union leaders ahead of the well-being of the people they serve. And that's wrong," she said.

 

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There has not been a vote for Wal-Mart except for butchers in Texas and this is what wally world did.



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Dude..you should do Leno...he needs copy.

Never was a vote , Dude because they never wanted one...... You can't figure that part out?

 

[700UW]

Cause walmart spends millions and threatens their employees:

US supermarket giant Wal-Mart has used aggressive tactics, some illegal, to prevent staff from forming a union, a human rights group alleges.

In a report titled "Discounting Rights: Wal-Mart's violation of US workers' right to freedom of association", Human Rights Watch claims that the retailer uses a number of anti-union tactics and some "run afoul of soft US laws".

The report claims to have evidence that Wal-Mart, which employs 1.3 un-unionised staff in the US, "indoctrinates workers and managers to oppose unions from the moment they are hired".

Information in the firm's "manager's toolbox" reportedly gives instructions on how to "remain union free in the event union organisers choose your facility as their next target".

"Wal-Mart workers have virtually no chance to organise because they're up against unfair US labour laws and a giant company that will do just about anything to keep unions out," said Carol Pier, senior researcher on labour rights and trade for Human Rights Watch.

"That one-two punch devastates workers' right to form and join unions."

However the claims have been vehemently denied by Wal-Mart, the world's largest corporation which revealed profits of $11.3 billion (£5.64 billion) in 2006.

"Wal-Mart provides an environment of open communications and gives our associates every opportunity to express their ideas, comments and concerns," a spokesperson for Wal-Mart, David Tovar, said.

"It is because of our efforts to foster such an environment that our associates have repeatedly rejected unionisation attempts."

Wal-Mart Gags Whistleblower; Investor Group Demands Apology; Activists Spied On
By Matthew Rothschild
April 10, 2007

Wal-Mart has won a temporary restraining order against a fired employee who spilled the beans about the company’s spying operations to the Wall Street Journal on April 4.

Bruce Gabbard told the Journal that he was part of a sophisticated company surveillance operation that spied not only on employees but on shareholders and critics. The outfit was called the Threat Research and Analysis Group. He confirmed his story to the Associated Press.

“Wal-Mart’s actions are paranoid, childish, and desperate,â€￾ says a spokesperson for Wal-Mart Watch, who himself was tracked by company sleuths.
But he won’t be confirming any more stories for a while, since a judge in Benton, Arkansas, home of Wal-Mart, granted the gag order late Friday, April 6. Wal-Mart successfully argued that Gabbard had gabbed about confidential corporate information. The local judge also ordered Gabbard to cough up “the names of all persons to whom he has transmitted, since January 15, 2007, any Wal-Mart information,â€￾ AP reported.

According to Gabbard, Wal-Mart’s spies kept tabs on several groups, including the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). After the story broke, Wal-Mart said it regretted that shareholder groups had been monitored. But that’s not enough for the Interfaith Center. On April 9, it demanded a formal apology.

“We were surprised and disappointed to read the results of the Wall Street Journal investigative report,â€￾ four leaders of the group said in a statement. “We view such actions as a serious breach of the trust relationship between shareholders and their company. . . . We ask that Wal-Mart formally apologize to investors and to others whose expectations of privacy has been breached.â€￾

Signing the letter was Sister Judy Byron of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, U.S.-Ontario Province; Sister Susan Mika, who represents the Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas; Father Michael Hoolahan, the interim executive director of the ICCR; and Mark Regier, chair of the ICCR’s governing board.

The Wall Street Journal article said that Wal-Mart had done “some preliminary background work on the potential threat assessmentâ€￾ of the Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas.

Another group the company went to great lengths to keep tabs on was Wal-Mart Watch. Gabbard told The Wall Street Journal that he found photos of Nu Wexler, a spokesperson for the group, on a South Carolina Democratic Party website, and shared the photos with company personnel.

“Wal-Mart’s actions are paranoid, childish and desperate,â€￾ Wexler said in a statement on his group’s website. The company’s “thug-like tactics only confirm their critics’ charges. Wal-Mart should stop playing with spy toys and take the criticism of their business model seriously.â€￾

In addition to Wal-Mart Watch, the company also reportedly was concerned about ACORN and Up Against the Wal.

Wal-Mart sent “a long-haired employee wearing a wireless microphone to Up Against the Wal’s Fayetteville, Ark., gathering, and eavesdropped from nearby,â€￾ the Journal reported, relaying Gabbard’s story. “We followed around the perimeter with a surveillance van,â€￾ he said.

In response to the article, Wal-Mart issued a statement that said, in its entirety: “Our senior management, our board and their advisors regularly conduct thorough, strategic reviews of all aspects of our business. That’s just good governance. We look at a full range of alternatives, many of which are considered and rejected, and we will not comment specifically on any of them.â€￾

 

[local 12 proud]

Who likes hillary,raise your hand

Oh dear

stick a fork in her

 

[MMB]

... we would have national healthcare if it wasnt for the insurance companies spending millions to brainwash people that it would be a bad idea.

National health care:
Brought to you by the same people who sponser:
the social security Ponzi scheme
Medicare
The war on poverty

I'll pass.

 

[delldude]

Cause walmart spends millions and threatens their employees:

And like I said.....why haven't the 'scared' workers sought to unionize if its so damned bad?

 

[delldude]

Shes in trouble now

Listen intently unless you have your head where the sun doesn't shine.............

 

[local 12 proud]

I bet the fireplaces are keeping NH homes warm tonight with all the vote HILLARY Campaign signs. :cold:

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

I bet the fireplaces are keeping NH homes warm tonight with all the vote HILLARY Campaign signs. :cold:

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Ok, fellow "water coolers",

Any of you that watched the debate(s), like I did here IN NH, most likely did'nt get to see the local news at 11pm, from the same channel(WMUR) that I did/can

From what I saw, Hillary made ZERO "slip ups". Obama was rather reserved. (VERY IMPORTANT) Bill Richardson "Scored BIG" when he hammered out the point, that experience DOES count, and NO ONE called him on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 11pm news people gave the debate to Hillary, and THAT is exactly how I scored it !
If Hillary wins NH(and I feel she will) ALL OBAMA bets are OFF !!!

So for now, we wait for tuesday nite.

AND

for DELL, and "12",........I'll leave you with 2 words..................(Are YOU ready for your 2 words you ol' BUZZARDS) ??


"YOGI BERRA" ......

 

[delldude]

700UW-

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Barack Obama, fresh from his victory in Iowa, now holds a ten point lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race found Obama with 37% of the vote while Clinton earns 27%.

Snowball effect.


Quote me...

 

[local 12 proud]

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Ok, fellow "water coolers",

Any of you that watched the debate(s), like I did here IN NH, most likely did'nt get to see the local news at 11pm, from the same channel(WMUR) that I did/can

From what I saw, Hillary made ZERO "slip ups". Obama was rather reserved. (VERY IMPORTANT) Bill Richardson "Scored BIG" when he hammered out the point, that experience DOES count, and NO ONE called him on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 11pm news people gave the debate to Hillary, and THAT is exactly how I scored it !
If Hillary wins NH(and I feel she will) ALL OBAMA bets are OFF !!!

Kinda like watching a car wreck Bears, everyone has a different take on what happened!

So for now, we wait for tuesday nite.

Champagne is already iced down....

for DELL, and "12",........I'll leave you with 2 words..................(Are YOU ready for your 2 words you ol' BUZZARDS) ??


"YOGI BERRA" ......

Here's another one for ya!

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

 

[Gilding the Lily]

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Ok, fellow "water coolers",

Any of you that watched the debate(s), like I did here IN NH, most likely did'nt get to see the local news at 11pm, from the same channel(WMUR) that I did/can

From what I saw, Hillary made ZERO "slip ups". Obama was rather reserved. (VERY IMPORTANT) Bill Richardson "Scored BIG" when he hammered out the point, that experience DOES count, and NO ONE called him on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 11pm news people gave the debate to Hillary, and THAT is exactly how I scored it !
If Hillary wins NH(and I feel she will) ALL OBAMA bets are OFF !!!

So for now, we wait for tuesday nite.

AND

for DELL, and "12",........I'll leave you with 2 words..................(Are YOU ready for your 2 words you ol' BUZZARDS) ??


"YOGI BERRA" ......

I think Hillary did make a slip-up. And if the amount of time it took for it to be placed on You Tube and its number of views is any indication, I would claim that other people viewed it as a slip-up as well. It was when Edwards said that when someone is a champion for change, you always get resistance from the status-quo... then, Hillary got VERY defensive, raised her voice to a near shout. Richardson then cracked a joke about hostage negotiations being more cival.

 

[delldude]

Her vision of herself is slipping away.....she is not in control....the worst dilemma for a

master control freak.I bet you'll see more cracks in the foundation over the next few weeks.

This is not in the plan....

 

[local 12 proud]

Yea seems that 'two for one' mantra isn't helping her much.

...Bill sure is tight lipped these days!