Wal-mart busts union

Anderson Robert L band at unm.edu
Mon Mar 6 06:34:35 PST 2000


I saw an article our the local paper where about a dozen fresh meat cutters at a Wal-Mart in Jacksonville, Florida voted to unionize. What did Wal-Mart do as a result of this small group workers exercising their constitutional right to assemble for their own benefit (much as corporations do and for which WTO was organized by large corporations)? Wal-Mart closed the fresh meat cutting section of the supermax stores in the whole region and declared they would subcontract for prepackaged meatsat the effected stores. The power of a small number to alter large corporation is clear. But also the greed of Wal-Mart management is clear, that they will go to extreme measures to prevent sharing even the smallest of benefits generated by their superior organizational and distribution system generates with their employees. The precedent of this would be immense if workers at these large corporate stores were successful and understood the power they hold over the large company.

Also, in an NPR this morning a commentary from a scientist at the Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque pointed out that the environmental disaster of many of the recent floods like in Honduras and Mozambique is due to the growing populations deforesting water shead areas which would normally have controlled the rain run-offs.

bob



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