Target Puts Out Anti-Union Video Warning Employees Of New 'Card-Check' Law

bloomberg.com:

Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Target Corp. retooled a training video to warn workers against a bill that would make union organizing easier. Michaels Stores Inc. told investors "our businesses could be impacted" by the measure. Enrollment in Jackson Lewis LLP's "How to Stay Union-Free" seminars tripled.

Companies are rallying to fend off a so-called card-check law sought by labor leaders and backed by President Barack Obama.

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Comments

[olddognewtrick]

01:24 PM on 01/02/2010

Now that they've laidoff all of the white folks in Walnut Creek..this should be easier.

[totaldisbelief]

12:56 PM on 12/31/2009

When CEOs rake in the lion's share of the money at the expense of both shareholders and employees something is wrong. Those same CEOs and Board Members won't fix that situation by themselves. Then the shareholders and employees are left to their recourses to fix the situation.
Who can blame the people who actually do the work for wanting to be rewarded for their efforts?
I see Costco Employees are happy with their CEO who buses a rather "enlightened " approach to management, They have good jobs and they know it and show it in their work.
Keepin "full-time employees" under 40 hours a week to save paying them benefits is a telling sign of just how a company "values" its employees.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

05:03 PM on 12/30/2009

Wow, IKEA & Target? I'm disappointed and shop a lot at both.
I won't be shopping at either until I hear that their employeess are being paid and treated well.

[cyoohoos]

08:34 AM on 12/31/2009

Why do you assume that the only way a company will pay their employees and treat them well is if the company is unionized?

Unions have a place, but sometimes they do more harm than good. How would you like to be told that even though you work harder, have more education and skill that you can't get a promotion until some lazy person with more seniority and a bad attitude gives up their job?

[totaldisbelief]

12:37 PM on 12/31/2009

as opposed to working hard and never getting any notice or improvement in income or position from a non-union employer ?

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

04:45 PM on 12/30/2009

I don't thik unions are good for our economy and they definitely do not allow us to compete in the world market.

Example: Construction job:
Union guy shows up at 9ish, takes a looong lunch, has a few beers and leaves at 2-3 p.m. - yes, he does.
Non-union guy is there at 7:30, works like he((, eats his boxed lunch, and leaves at 5... having done twice as much work as the union guy. Union guy gets paid AT LEAST twice as much. Good? Fair?
THIS little story is straight from a union guy's mouth.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

05:04 PM on 12/30/2009

Hmmmm.. Unions are thre reason there is a middle class in this country

[FreedomOnionSoup]

05:30 PM on 12/30/2009

Example: HP
someone posts completely inane and anecdotal information to try and prove a ridiculous point.

[PoliticalJunkie65]

10:23 PM on 12/30/2009

Agreed.

[woodshoe]

03:40 PM on 12/30/2009

i really must make one of these for target as well;.

http://sabotsabot.deviantart.com/art/unionize-wal-mart-62104350

(btw, if you are a wal-mart employees, please feel free to print out several copies of the above poster and wheatpaste it to the inside doors of all the bathroom stalls, ..in the employee break room (if walmart even has such a thing.) .and on the doors of the management offices.. maybe even print out a few and slip them between items on the shelves.. to be discovered by patrons and employees alike.)

[spinns17]

12:10 PM on 12/30/2009

its come down to this.anyone or thing tied to wall street is bad for us and the country.

[gjohnthehorrible]

08:19 AM on 12/30/2009

So is Target going to draw the anger of liberals the way Walmart does?

[DFL]

10:13 PM on 12/29/2009

The perks we now enjoy took bloodshed and the way things are going, it might come to that again.

[spinns17]

02:39 AM on 12/30/2009

it looks that way to me to.

[LemonMeringue]

09:39 PM on 12/29/2009

The moneyed uberlords are short-sighted. If the people do not have enough money, who is going to buy their products? People were better off in the sixties and seventies, when minimum wage was higher in real dollars and the wealthy were taxed more. There seemed to be plenty to go around, then.

Wal-Mart has shot itself in the foot. Unbelievably, they advocate a higher minimum wage, because their customer base doesn't have as much to spend there. They have been experimenting with a more upscale model of store to attract the next-up socioeconomic level. They forced one into our town (after a long battle, I'm proud of my town to say) and it isn't doing so well.

[LemonMeringue]

09:30 PM on 12/29/2009

A recent Harper's has an article on the sweatshops that produce clothes for Target, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc.

A clothing worker produces an average of $195,000 in retail sales a year in merchandise, for which they are paid $750. If the American company charged $101 instead of $100 for an item, nobody in America would notice, but it would pull virtual slaves out of poverty. But if an American company could squeeze another dollar in retail price, they would just keep it as additional profit.

When did America become both heartless and satisfied with absolute krap quality?

[LemonMeringue]

09:28 PM on 12/29/2009

I would never set foot in a Wal-Mart and I don't like Target very much either (now even less). Those stores exhaust me just to pass by the parking lot.

It's amazing what you can do without if you don't go to stores like that. And you survive! What you really need is available elsewhere or online, and much of what you think you need - the cheap krap they sell at WM & T - you will be happier without.

[3dtrix]

01:38 AM on 12/30/2009

I've never set foot in a Walmart - it isn't so hard to avoid..

[SocialistBoy]

08:18 PM on 12/29/2009

Why do I recall the old 'plantation days' and the era early railroad(builders) tycoon days??

[SocialistBoy]

08:11 PM on 12/29/2009

There is a Target store in the next town, from me. I never had the inclination to go to it and gives me a bad vibe. Never have set foot in one-Just saying.

el Shaman

[austin4]

07:57 PM on 12/29/2009

The People at Target, need to talk to the people at Whole Foods, about p!ssing off Unions, they will be closing stores by June.

[gjohnthehorrible]

08:21 AM on 12/30/2009

Will the Union pay to feed the workers who get laid off?

[spinns17]

12:09 PM on 12/30/2009

will the company do the same?

[RandVictims]

07:51 PM on 12/29/2009

Reading Desmos posts, it's clear to me he's never done an honest days work in his life. He most likely inherited a self-sustaining business from parents or grandparents.

[RightWingMarine]

03:02 PM on 12/30/2009

is there something wrong with passing wealth or a business onto one's children?

[woodshoe]

03:32 PM on 12/30/2009

yes.

and interestingly.. the political history of that issue is an curious one that takes us back about 2-300 years.. to some of the first splits between what would later be called conservatism and what would be called anarchism.

the anarchists, you see, maintained that age old idea that everyone had "a right to the fruits of his/her own labor."..quite so.. while the newly developing capitalist oligarchy were eager to abandon that timeless truth and replace it with what we all must currently endure.. a culture which says we have a right to not only the 'fruits of our labor'.. but also a "right" to the fruits of our fathers labor and his fathers labor, and his fathers..etc

quite a distinct and altogether immoral prospect. and it was treated as an extremist deviation at the time .. properly so, as this began the primitive capital accumulation that has since created the wealthy lazy oligarchy we all now toil to feed and clothe.

it was the first and largest of all welfare programs, whereby we have all come to support the rich for many centuries. (later, those same oligarchs would come to refer to those minor and slight democratic victories of the common people attempting to reclaim little bits of what had been long usurped, as "welfare".. and to refer to themselves as "conservatives" despite their utter dependence on the work of others.)