DUmmies Discuss Big Walmart Strike In Minnesota

[GOBUCKS]

Uh oh!! Looks like it's curtains for Walmart! Workers are walking off the job in advance of the biggest shopping days of the year.  DUmmies are overjoyed:

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 04:42 PM
geardaddy (14,529 posts)

Walmart Workers In Brooklyn Center (MN) Walk Out, Protest Low Wages

Ahead of Black Friday, workers at Brookdale Shopping Center's Walmart walked off the job Monday with the support of dozens of other retail workforce activists, Nina Moini reports (1:41).

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/9568709-walmart-workers-in-brooklyn-center-walk-out-protest-low-wages/

cross posted from http://www.democraticunderground.com/10592404#post2

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024097228

Response to geardaddy (Original post)
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 05:21 PM
Star Member ohheckyeah (6,699 posts)
2. Walmart replied by telling customers

not to worry that this would affect black Friday shopping.

Response to ohheckyeah (Reply #2)
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 05:21 PM
geardaddy (14,529 posts)
3. Not unexpected.

We know where their priorities are.

But wait a minute! Wait a minute! An average Walmart Supercenter has about 300 employees. Three hundred.

The number who walked off the job? 3, as in "three".

Yes, this whole kerfunkle is over three 0bamaite clerks in Minnesota, who could be 0bama's daughters were he not homosexual.

Fifteen or twenty sign-carrying moonbats joined three (3) off-duty malcontent clerks to bring mighty Walmart to its knees.

Response to geardaddy (Original post)
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 05:55 PM
geardaddy (14,529 posts)
10. More info: Ellison was striking with them.

Walmart workers demanding higher wages walked off the job in Brooklyn Center Monday.

Similar strikes are happening across the country ahead of Black Friday. Workers are staging a national strike on the busiest shopping day of the year.

Congressman Keith Ellison joined the employees in Brooklyn Center to support their cause.

The workers are asking for at least $25,000 a year and for the company to provide full time positions for those who want them.

It's pretty certain these 0bamaite malcontents will not be among the employees moving to full time positions.

[JakeStyle]

I doubt many of the protesters are actual Walmart employees.

National Labor Relations Board lawyers okayed a major union's practice of paying people to protest against Walmart in a legal memorandum earlier this month. The federal labor law enforcement agency said the practice of paying workers $50 apiece to join protests “did not constitute unlawful … coercion of employees.”

In a Nov. 15 memorandum from the NLRB's general counsel office regarding the so-called “Black Friday” protests staged by United Food and Commercial Workers against the nonunion retailer last year, the NLRB lawyers determined that the UFCW's offer of $50 gift cards to anyone who showed up to protest “was a non-excessive strike benefit.”

The lawyers said there was “no evidence to indicate that the gift card was meant to buy support for OUR Walmart” since the card was available not just to the retailer’s employees but to anyone who showed up at the unions’ protests.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/labor-relations-board-oks-unions-paying-people-to-protest-walmart/article/2539825

[Tucker]

Last year I went driving around looking for a Walmart that had protesters. I didn't find any. I'll try it again this year.

[Skul]

Last year I went driving around looking for a Walmart that had protesters. I didn't find any. I'll try it again this year.

Didn't see any around the one a few miles from me, either.
I did donate to the Salvation Army bell ringer.
I'll look for the "protesters" again.  Probably put more in the SA guys kettle while I'm there.

[GOBUCKS]

Didn't see any around the one a few miles from me, either.
I did donate to the Salvation Army bell ringer.
I'll look for the "protesters" again.  Probably put more in the SA guys kettle while I'm there.

That's the Sally.

[DLR Pyro]

I'd love to see Wal-Mart fire any slackers who walk off and replace them with people who are grateful to have a job.

[marv]

I think I'll drive over to Walmart in Cassville on Friday.

[seahorse513]

I have never heard of anyone walking out, but then again I know , they value their jobs.

[GOBUCKS]

I doubt many of the protesters are actual Walmart employees.

In this case in Minnesota, there were 25 or 30 moonbats carrying picket signs, but only three even claimed to be associated with Walmart. Of course the reporter made no effort to verify whether they were employees. It makes a better story to just bash
Walmart.

[Tucker]

In this case in Minnesota, there were 25 or 30 moonbats carrying picket signs, but only three even claimed to be associated with Walmart. Of course the reporter made no effort to verify whether they were employees. It makes a better story to just bash
Walmart.

If the lady at the link is a WM employee, I sure hope it works in the bag department.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/26/as_wal_mart_workers_plan_record

[dane]

In a Nov. 15 memorandum from the NLRB's general counsel office regarding the so-called “Black Friday” protests staged by United Food and Commercial Workers against the nonunion retailer last year, the NLRB lawyers determined that the UFCW's offer of $50 gift cards to anyone who showed up to protest “was a non-excessive strike benefit.”

Wouldn't it be great if the gift cards were Wal Mart gift cards.

[miskie]

In this case in Minnesota, there were 25 or 30 moonbats carrying picket signs, but only three even claimed to be associated with Walmart. Of course the reporter made no effort to verify whether they were employees. It makes a better story to just bash
Walmart.

Most of the protesters are probably the 'Jobs With Justice' gang - especially since they are looking for Walmart protesters on the front page of their site.

http://www.jwj.org/

[Wineslob]

Stoopit is as stoopit loses job.

Why is it that these "working poor" are so fat?

 

[jukin]

Three new job openings at the Walmart In Brooklyn Center (MN).

[NHSparky]

If every malcontent REAL Walmart worker walked out right this second, would anyone even notice?

Shit, I still can't find more than two checkout lines open at any given time there.

[seahorse513]

If every malcontent REAL Walmart worker walked out right this second, would anyone even notice?

Shit, I still can't find more than two checkout lines open at any given time there.

What Walmart are you going to? and at what time?

Each store is given a scorecard, based on sales of the year to date, for that store. Peak times on an average is 10 am to 8 pm. Obviously, because the holidays are coming up, peak times and surges will be all over the place. the fun never ends!!

[Tucker]

If every malcontent REAL Walmart worker walked out right this second, would anyone even notice?

Shit, I still can't find more than two checkout lines open at any given time there.

I use the self check out whenever it's available. This goes for all stores that I frequent. This includes Home Depot, Walmart, Target and especially grocery stores. Less likely to get berated for my opinions from DUmmies within earshot of what I say. It's bad to log on to the computer and find your words, verbatim, posted at the DUmp and the ensuing bitch-slap I received from said DUmmy.

 

[Bad Dog]

Went to the local super store and thought we had a strike going on.  Turned out to be a couple of drunks sharing a bottle of MD 20/20.

[seahorse513]

I have to work till 11 pm tonite......gah!!, then 3-10 tomorrow!! FUN TIMES ARE HERE AGAIN!!!!