From Michelle Malkin: Black Friday always brings out the worst: long lines, short tempers and
random outbreaks of shoppers’ rage. This year, Big Labor will ratchet up
the Strikesgiving tension with professional grievance-mongers and
workers picketing at 1,000 Wal-Mart stores nationwide. (In Las Vegas, there were no protests- smart employees)...
Wal-Mart, SEIU and CAP together endorsed Obamacare’s employer mandate
and “shared responsibility” provisions, which they called “important
proposals that should be included in the current efforts to reform our
nation’s health care system.” These unholy alliances were forged out of
Wal-Mart’s desperation and political expediency....
Wal-Mart foolishly contributed between $500,000 and $999,999 to
Podesta and his Soros-backed Center for American Progress. But Soros’
MoveOn hit team is now instigating the Black Friday strikes online.
Similar corporate outreach to the Congressional Black Caucus brought
rebukes from, you guessed it, SEIU leaders, which blasted Wal-Mart for
“undermining standards for all American workers.”
Never mind that Wal-Mart employs 1.3 million people, 250,000 of whom
have been there for more than 10 years and 165,000 of whom are hourly
associates who were promoted last year.
Nor will the company ever have the sympathies of the president —
despite first lady Michelle Obama’s comfy seat on the corporate board of
directors of TreeHouse Foods Inc. Wal-Mart happens to be the
conglomerate’s biggest customer.
The TreeHouse Foods position netted Mrs. Obama $45,000 in 2005 and
$51,200 in 2006 — as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more
than $72,000 for each year. While Mrs. Obama welcomed Wal-Mart’s
decision to team up with her on her anti-”food deserts” campaign last
year, Obama’s union cronies at the SEIU and AFL-CIO once again
excoriated the nation’s largest employer.
“Wal-Mart should not be celebrated for false contributions to our
communities and glitzy public relations campaigns that disguise their
destructive policies,” the union bosses railed.
President Obama has said nothing about the strike actions, but he
made his allegiances clear in 2007, when he told union activists he
“would not shop” at Wal-Mart. Company heir Samuel Walton forked over
$300,000 to the Priorities USA super PAC, run by former Obama flack Bill
Burton. How’s that working out?
For the sake of its survival, I hope the Black Friday lesson isn’t lost on the rest of Wal-Mart’s management and heirs.
When you lie down with thugs, you get up with … more black eyes http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/23/wal-mart-vs-the-mob/
Wal-Mart has a lot of smart and dedicated employees who really know the truth about what is reality versus what the union puts out.
But upper management wants to play nice with liberals and that just isn't going to work. No matter what Wal-Mart does in trying to appease liberals, it's not going to work and they shouldn't even try.
Wal-Mart ought to concentrate on it's customers instead of liberal special interest groups because the liberals are going to hate Wal-Mart no matter what.
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