Transparent Eye

So says Mark Vernon in the Guardian.

Wal-Mart caught telling its employees to vote Republican, according to the Wall Street Journal.

I’m more outraged, however, by it’s viciously anti-union activity. Basically, they take the nuclear alternative to unionization.

Through almost all of its 48-year history, Wal-Mart has fought hard to keep unions out of its stores, flying in labor-relations rapid-response teams from its Bentonville, Ark., headquarters to any location where union activity was building. The United Food and Commercial Workers was successful in organizing only one group of Wal-Mart workers — a small number of butchers in East Texas in early 2000. Several weeks later, the company phased out butchers in all of its stores and began stocking prepackaged meat. When a store in Canada voted to unionize several years ago, the company closed the store, saying it had been unprofitable for years.

I would note that my father, years ago, was a member of a union that became a part of the UFCW.

I don’t think this is a humanistic company.