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Sorry Benighted, I didn't see your Australian location.  I had assumed that everyone knew what the teamsters union is.

The Brotherhood of Teamsters is a large and powerful union here in America. Mostly, their members are truck drivers, but some other trades are represented as well.  More on their history can be read at their website

The man who entered the Hudson Walmart had simply gone in for basic items, and the store was on his way home. But, Walmart management spotted the t-shirt, and was apparently afraid that he had come in for other reasons, so they shadowed him. 

Home Depot, built on the Walmart business model, is also very anti-union, and has been known to fire anyone who even suggests organizinng.  There are not as many web pages dealing with this with respect to Home Depot however.

I keep asking why some companies feel so compelled to treat their employees so badly, and the only answers I can come up with are Ego, power, and just plain bullying.  That's just what I think, anyone got any other ideas?

Enigma

I'll give you extra points for enthusiasm, oatmeal.

Screw tourist attractions, when I go to the US I am going to go to a WalMart.

Go to a super walmart for the full effect.

Will-do. And I think I'll buy some cheap canoe-sex beer while I'm there.

Sorry Benighted, I didn't see your Australian location.  I had assumed that everyone knew what the teamsters union is.

That's ok, Enigma. You can't be expected to pander to our foreign wiles.

From what Geesy posted:
"Thinking union? Get outta here! "Wal-Mart is opposed to unionization," reads a company guidebook for supervisors. "You, as a manager, are expected to support the company

4. Nothing will be manufactured in this country at all. Not a bicycle, not a t-shirt, not a single toy, not a pair of bluejeans or even a bar of soap. Nope, nothing.

Would that be a bad thing?  If manufacturing has become a low-margin, high-risk, bottom-end sector of our economy, why not let it be farmed out of the US?  Let other countries provide the low-pay laborers, deal with the environmental challenges and absorb the low end jobs, while the US jobs retain the high-end jobs...We lost the low end, but added the high end.  When manufacturing jobs go overseas, the high-end jobs that require high skill levels, education and training stay right here in the USA, and the low end jobs go overseas.  Is that a bad thing?

However, it's not that simple.  Now, CEO's who are eager to increase the size of their multi-million dollar bonuses are farming IT and other high tech jobs out to other countries as well.  The bottom line is that it's the wage difference between the third world and the United States that is driving this.  To fix it, you'd have to pay our workers what those in the third world made and that represents an unacceptable sacrifice of our standard of living.

Unless something is done soon (read: serious tarriffs and penalties on companies who shift jobs outisde the US) we will be reduced to an economy where the only jobs left are those which require face-to-face contact between the customer and the worker.  Such an economy will neither sustain us as a wealthy nation, nor provide enough jobs to our workers.

So if you're exicted about a future where everyone is (a) a CEO, (b) working in restaurants, (c) working in health care, (d) is a repair tech for things too large to fedex to mexico, or (e) is unemployed...

...keep the Bushies in power.

Will-do. And I think I'll buy some cheap canoe-sex beer while I'm there.

 

For heaven's sake, stay away from Corona.

Will-do. And I think I'll buy some cheap canoe-sex beer while I'm there.

I think I want to go to walmart and get myself a cheap canoe, sex and beer all in one trip.

I wonder if Jdude (or anyone else) got the "cheap canoe-sex beer" joke, bb...

If you did, Jdude, my apologies for assuming otherwise.

I don't think I understood it at all, but I tried to make it funny for my fellow morons  

Will-do. And I think I'll buy some cheap canoe-sex beer while I'm there.

 

For heaven's sake, stay away from Corona.

I actually don't mind Corona. It's good to drink when it's stinking hot, and I can reuse the bottles for home brewing.

nicely done, Temetka. You know that they only cared about one thing though, and that was getting you out of the store. It is possible that you may have made it onto some sort of list.

I would not be surprised to learn that walmart uses video footage to monitor and photograph people they just don't like.

Anyone care to guess where they get people to be managers and supervisors?  Are they all ex KGB and STASI thugs, or what?  Well, I guess not. One thing I have learned, is that there is no shortage of sadistic people.

Enigma.

nicely done, Temetka. You know that they only cared about one thing though, and that was getting you out of the store. It is possible that you may have made it onto some sort of list.

I would not be surprised to learn that walmart uses video footage to monitor and photograph people they just don't like.

Anyone care to guess where they get people to be managers and supervisors?  Are they all ex KGB and STASI thugs, or what?  Well, I guess not. One thing I have learned, is that there is no shortage of sadistic people.

Enigma.

Then they don't know who they are tangling with. Go ahead target me. Surveil me. Database me.

I will hunt you [Walmart] down and make you [Walmart] pay. Not for my beneift. Oh no. You see that would be too petty, too small minded. I would make a public matter over every form of media available from free cable, to radio, to the internet and the papers. 

I would take pictures of employees and their cars. Get their license plate numbers and make it real personal. If they wanna smurf with me, be careful, I smurf back.

Big Brother may be here, and he may be livin' large, but I will spite on principal.

These kinds of tactics are employed by them (not outright, that would be stupid) but we all know they do it. I beleive in the power of the individual. I have the ability to atleast make them see me as a big enough threat that they would leave me alone simply because they fear what I might unveil on their sorry butts if they didn't.

I have been told to leave other Wal-Marts on the basis that I was disrupting their employees production. I had my lawyer on the cell beofre you can say lickety split. I took names.

You know what? I am greeted by name when I visit those stores now. It's amazing what the threat of a lawsuit will do to change peoples attitudes real quick.

The sad thing is the extreme lengths to which I have gone to achieve this. Whats even worse is that I enjoyed doing it. It was empowering to say the least.

Today Wal-Mart, tomorrow the RIAA!

I dont shop walmart anyway. They sell edited for language CDs. I dont mind edited that much, but the fact that some shopping place can dictate to me what i should not hear drives me nuts.