Some of you may read this and ask yourself why does my union care about what happens at the single largest employer in America (Wal-Mart)? This website was established with the intention of communicating information to our members in a timely fashion and to try and educate our members on matters pertaining to UNIONS in general.
Let us examine these facts:
§ According the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report, in 2009 the percentage of wage and salary workers who were members of a union was 12.3 percent, essentially unchanged from 12.4 percent in 2008.
§ The single largest employer in America today is Wal-Mart.
§ Six percent (6%) of employees in the retail industry are represented by a union.
§ Unions provide job security, higher wages and benefits and better working conditions.
§ How is it that not a single employee at Wal-Mart is represented by a union?
Part of the Wal-Mart plan is to have a Union-Free State and if an employee mentions the word “UNION” they are harassed, intimated and persuaded to quit or they find an excuse to terminate their employment. A recent publication entitled An American Rights at Work Report gives a very comprehensive analysis of Wal-Mart and how it treats its employees.
Each of you that are members of this very proud union has choices that you make each and every day in your personal lives including shopping wherever you so desire. Why take your hard earned union wages and spend them at Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club?
