Wal-Mart Telling Workers How to Vote

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
As if Wal-Mart’s business model of poverty wages, unaffordable healthcare, discrimination, and rabid unionbusting wasn’t bad enough. Now the anti-worker retail giant is holding mandatory meetings telling employees not to vote for Democrats who are supportive of the Employee Free Choice Act, reported Ann Zimmerman and Kris Maher in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal. “Wal-Mart is stepping up its efforts to prevent Democrats from being elected this fall, by telling employees that ‘voting for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama would be tantamount to inviting unions in,’” reports Tula Connell on the AFL-CIO Now Weblog. “Wal-Mart employees report feeling pressured to vote for candidates who oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.” Click here to tell Wal-Mart to stop intimidating workers and here to ask the Federal Election Commission to investigate Wal-Mart’s electioneering.