I am not a big fan of unions. I think that Walmart employees or any company employees should be given the option to join one. I think that we are finding day by day just how ugly that we treat each other as people. Sorry but it makes me sick.

I guess it doesn't matter. I just see my retirement money getting sucked right out of my pocket. Maybe when the time comes Walmart will hire me as a greeter.

imo when the formation of unions began they were needed

but most of them have become to the compnay what many companies were to the worker b4 unions became needed

and most of the time unions do not do there job anyway they are just a collector of you dues which they use as a tooth in the political gear


was a member of carpenters union in akron oh was fired by employer for refusing to work on a nonunion job (it says in the union handbook do not do nonunion work for your union employer)

the union refused to do anything

a few months later they called everyone that worked for this company in and said that they had not paid in enough to the health and welfare fund and wanted us to help them collect this money

i looked at the same guy that refused to do anything about my getting fired and said "when you do something about my unjustified discharge i will consider helping you"

he said that there was nothing he could do

i said nothing i can do for you neither and got up and walked out

(followed by every other employee that was there

when i seen that i went back and said now that is how a union is supposed to work

That is what I am trying to say. When the idea of unions was first concieved it was a good thing. Unions were made to help people and make better working conditions and better benefits. Now it seems that Union executives are out there for themselves. They are just as mean and unthinking than a lot of businesses that just throw people away because they know that there and many more that need the job.

I'm for unions. Unions are very common in my city.

The Walton family is the richest in america yet it provides minimul health care and wages. If they pay a just wage and provide benefits they do not need a union but when employees are exploited they should form a union.

except that the Walmart employees ALWAYS vote down the union. they must be happy enough

Union Dues will have to be paid.. hense the increase in pay. And the result, the increase in product pricing to cover the increase in pay.


We are over priced in the USA already,

I am against unions. Can ya tell......................

They dont vote it down by choice they are threatened to be fired, one way or another. A group of meatcutters formed a union in Canada and wallmart closed the doors. The same happaned when a group in the tire dept did the same. the message sent?form a union and lose your job. Simple.

right to work law is:
A state law that prohibits required union membership of workers.

When I worked at a plastics company that manufactured parts for the auto industry the UAW tried to get voted in. The factory did everything possible to keep the union out. Includin holdin meetings with employees an tellin us the bad things that could happen if the union was voted in. They went so far as to 'stakeout' the UAW oraganizational meetings an then pull those employees into the office to find out where they stood. Hard arm tactics are used by both sides to get their way an the employees are stuck in the middle. IMO they are pros an cons to havin a union.

I have worked for the Wal-Mart corp in both a Wal-Mart an a Sam's Club. They are pros an cons to workin for them. They do offer good wages for the most part, but they should offer better benefits. They are really bad about hiring someone as part time an then working them full time hours in order to get out of giving full time benefits. But they aren't the only company that does such things. This is widely done in the retail business.

Sears does that. There are no non management employees of Sears that work full time. My dad was a store manager for years and he quit when they started that policy

quiet...correct me if I am wrong...but in the states that are NOT right to work...does that mean if the employer is unionized then in order to work at the company you have to join the union?

yeah I tried to be an electrician in California and they said I would have to get the Union approval to take the state certification test and then pay to join the union

I said no thanks and came back to Texas

that's what I thought I read...thank you quiet

Alabama | Arizona | Arkansas | Florida | Georgia | Guam | Idaho | Iowa | Kansas | Louisiana | Mississippi | Nebraska | Nevada | North Carolina | North Dakota | Oklahoma |South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Virginia | Wyoming

those are right to work states. to see the laws for each state...

http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm

Face it, the american way of life is over. The only employees that kept up with inflation were the UAW, after 30 years of everyone else falling behind, suddenly they were "overpaid". The middle class is now impossible for the working men and women of America. It will be a two class society working poor and the rich, welcome to feudal america.

WOW for some reasone these were former slave states in the cival war with one or two exceptions.

If somebody was a heavy equipment operator, would they want to make $12/hr/non-union with no benefits or $18/hr/union with benefits?

If you're a brick layer, would you want to make $10/hr/non-union and no benefits or $18/hr/union with benefits?

I don't know a lot about unions. I know some people are happy with their unions while others hate it.