Walmart And Anti-Unionism

Brutality that retail companies impose on workers The earth is a place where anyone can do their own business but some big companies like Walmart always forget about the society just to make higher profits. Every person in the world has the right to get proper wages for the work done, every person has the right to speak against anything wrong going on in the society and every business has have the right to develop their business. Walmart is violating their customers and employees. Walmart’s offer of jobs, its attitude towards unionization and influence on other industries. Millions of employees worldwide to which Walmart has failed to pay living wages, also understaffing is the strategy to gain hard work from employees. Anti-unionism
There is much news about Walmart’s effort to break the unions all over the globe in their corporation. The recent article from Stephano Medina on the website policymic.com in article named “Read the leaked documents that Walmart doesn’t want you to see” is about Walmart and its labour relations. On Black Friday 2012, Walmart employees around the country came together to protest low wages and poor working conditions, sparking a bitter war of words between Walmart management and OUR Walmart, a non-profit organization that advocates for worker's interests. The National Labour relation Board (NLRB), the independent government entity tasked with enforcing labour law, issued a complaint against Walmart alleging that during these and subsequent protest, Walmart management violated labour law by punishing and threatening to punish employees engaged in protected legal activity. As an NLRB decision is poised to shame and punish Walmart over the alleged abuses, a slew of recently-leaked internal documents showcase Walmart’s anti union tactics (January 20, 2014). There are many other unsuccessful efforts made to stop unionism in Walmart. Wedekind,J. Said about Walmart’s anti-unionism in his article named “multinational Monitor”. In October, 2008 just two months after eight employees at a Walmart store in Gatineau, Quebec, became the only Walmart
As the world’s largest retailers promises that they give the lowest price on the shelf which the small retailers cannot afford to give to their customers. Henderson, Tom reported in daily journal of commerce about the small retailers who are closing their stores just because they are afraid of the new stores like target and Walmart. The president of Roth’s fresh Markets, Michael Roth, said he closed 35,000-square- foot store in Keizer in 2012 summer in the fear of increase in competition (Portland, OR. 2012). Also in the article by Lords, Christina written in Moscow-Pullman daily news said the local business owners said that their store’s overall sales were down because of the Walmart supercentre has pulled some new business. The owner also says that many Pullman residents don’t realize they’re paying into the Moscow tax base by choosing to shop at similar stores in the Palouse Mall