Is it time to start organizing labor via secret societies again?

[gordonzola]

I read the paper every day but I try not to let it get to me. I fully believe that the capitalist press exists in part to demoralize us. Still, there was a quote in the article about a failed organizing drive at Wal-Mart that got to me.

Cody Fields, who earns $8.10 Per hour after two years at the garage, said he originally backed the union "because we need a change" but said the antiunion videos* were effective. "it’s just a bunch of brainwashing, but it kind of worked," he said.

Sigh.

Oddly, this quote only appears in the print edition of today’s Chron. Not in the online version or the NY Times online version where it was syndicated from.



*Shown as part of a daily anti-union campaign by Wal-Mart’s full-time anti-union organizers.

Comments

[pink-jacket.livejournal.com]

I read that this morning too in the Chronicle and felt a shock and then sadness, as always with reading the paper. I picture a war room type atmosphere with the anti union "experts" buddying up to the guys, giving them cigarettes, the videos running non stop. Oh Cody.
I was morbidly fascinated to see the part about the meatcutters who unionized in 2000 in Texas and then Wal-Mart replaced it's meat cutting operations "in the south" with prepackaged meat. ugh.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, doom awaited that union in this political climate, that's for sure.