Wal-Mart Enters The Political Arena With Political Intimidation Of Employees!
We couldn't believe the front page of today's Wall Street Journal. Have you seen it?
It’s Right Here: Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121755649066303381.html
Wal-Mart has been threatening employees to not vote for pro-worker candidates like Barack Obama in November because they support the Employee Free Choice Act. If passed, the bill would make it easier to form unions in stores like Wal-Mart.
Telling employees how to vote in a U.S. election is not only morally reprehensible, it's potentially illegal.
So we’re starting a petition to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), asking for an investigation into Wal-Mart’s electioneering. Can you sign on?
Ask the Federal Election Committee to investigate Wal-Mart’s potentially illegal intimidation.
Wal-Mart is stretching the bounds of legality with these outrageous tactics – it's illegal for companies to advocate for political candidates to hourly employees. Here’s how one Wal-Mart worker described the meeting:
"The meeting leader said, 'I am not telling you how to vote, but if the Democrats win, this bill will pass and you won't have a vote on whether you want a union,'" said a Wal-Mart customer-service supervisor from Missouri. "I am not a stupid person. They were telling me how to vote," she said.
Unfortunately for Wal-Mart workers, intimidation is par for the course at the world’s largest employer.
Wal-Mart threatens workers who try to form a union, flying in a unionbusting team any time there's a whiff of union activity. Workers at Wal-Mart face threats, propaganda, discrimination, intimidation, and even firings in retaliation for trying to improve their lives and working conditions.
But this is a new low – one that goes to the very core principles of our democracy.
All of America’s workers have the right to freely decide whom to vote for independent of employer pressure and intimidation. And all of America’s workers should have ability to form a union free of employer pressure and intimidation.
Please forward this message to friends and family and let them know what's going on. Thank you for helping us call attention to this latest outrage.
Ask the Federal Election Commission to investigate Wal-Mart’s electioneering.
Sign on to our petition to the FEC!
Sincerely,
Liz Cattaneo
American Rights at Work
www.AmericanRightsatWork.org
http://action.walmartwatch.com/page/s/voters
Let’s Have It All:
Wal-Mart denies that it told employees how to vote
The Associated Press -
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