Wal-Mart Telling Workers How to Vote
Thursday, August 7, 2008
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
As if Wal-Mart’s business model of poverty wages, unaffordable healthcare,
discrimination, and rabid unionbusting wasn’t bad enough. Now the anti-worker
retail giant is holding mandatory meetings telling employees not to vote for
Democrats who are supportive of the Employee Free Choice Act, reported Ann
Zimmerman and Kris Maher in last
Friday’s Wall Street Journal. “Wal-Mart is stepping up its efforts to
prevent Democrats from being elected this fall, by telling employees that
‘voting for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama would be
tantamount to inviting unions in,’” reports Tula Connell on the AFL-CIO
Now Weblog. “Wal-Mart employees report feeling pressured to vote for
candidates who oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.” Click here to
tell Wal-Mart to stop intimidating workers and here to
ask the Federal Election Commission to investigate Wal-Mart’s electioneering.