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[missroserose]

Wal-Mart to employees: "We're not telling you how to vote, but a vote for the Democrats is an Invitation to Unions! And everyone knows Unions are Communist and Anti-Free-Trade and Un-American and will make Bad Things Happen to your job! But we're not telling you how to vote!"

If you'll pardon my sarcastic French accent...

Rose to Wal-Mart: "Le boux houx. My heart bleeds for youx."

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm terribly heartened by the 'little David' Wal-Mart standing up to the Mighty Goliath juggernaut of organized labor.

Also? How can organizations named Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and the Employee Freedom Action Committee be wrong? I like Democracy! I like Freedom!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Support the Patriot Act! If you don't, you're unpatriotic!

Misleading names like that annoy the piss out of me. I mean, you don't have to call it the We Want To Be Able To Treat Our Hourly Employees Like The Disposable Proles That They Are Committee, but at least pick something vague and not intentionally obfuscating. >

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You mean like the Clean Air Act?

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Or the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. Sure, we're going to make the forests healthier by cutting the trees down!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, another favorite term of mine - "Right to Work" laws, which are universally anti-labor and anti-union. But it's okay, we all want to work! Who knew we needed legislation to protect that right?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yes, because as soon as employees are treated like citizens and not indentured servants, then they're a liability to the almighty corporate mother and no longer just a human resource.

It sounds like they know exactly where the line of the law is drawn and they're dancing the lambada right up on that line. Just a little smarter than your typical corporate ruthlessness, but the same flavor.

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they are making it clear where they think their employee's best interests lie.:)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

In a twisted and roundabout way, yes. I particularly loved the person they interviewed who called them on their bullshit: "I'm not stupid. They were telling us how to vote."

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

tl;dr If walmart goes union they won't be able to be as "nice" to their employees and will be more aggressive with terminations for "poor work performance" (IE not supporting the company line), yes?

I do prefer union action through secret ballot when possible - lowers the chance for targetted company retribution against the average worker although the ability to claim/support being sacked due to union tendencies is also lower because there's no written record of their voting for such.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

You used "tl;dr". That makes you unworthy of arguing with.

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

Hooray for personal attacks instead of logical debate!

Seriously, is there disagreement?

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't figured out that I consider "tl;dr" to be tantamount to a personal attack by now, you're obviously not paying attention. :P

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

tl;dr you insist on no netspeak amirite?

;)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

No, it's not the netspeak aspect so much as the implied disrespect. To me, "tl;dr" states "My time is worth so much more than yours that not only am I not going to read what you posted, but I'm going to take up your time to tell you that it's not worth my time." If you don't want to read something, fine - it's the internet, no one's forcing you to. But don't be an asshole about it.

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

ah, no, the original tl;dr was about the article, not your posting.

Usually a reply is made to a post already read, so a tl;dr would be pointless used on such.

Sorry. *shrug*

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Eh, it still annoys me. Mostly because a lot of asses use "tl;dr" for exactly that - replying to a post they haven't bothered to read. For the reasons outlined above.

Still not going to argue with you on the union thing, though. I think I've made my part clear, and I've learned from experience that doing so would be a pointless experience. :P

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

Low cut. No further response.