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

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

I dunno. The union looks at it as a PR victory. Labor board rulings certainly cannot keep up with a fast-moving global corporation.

In my neighbourhood, they're trying to resist a Wal-mart. Maybe this will help.

Will Americans care? It happened outside your borders, and it was in the French province of Soviet Canuckistan.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Will Americans care?

mostly? of course not.