deeply under chinese communist party control. that sent a message, i think, to a lot of u.s. manufacturers. and he is the one who has been explicitly aggressive about china s foreign policy initiatives such as increasing spending on the military. so who could be surprised that there would be a reaction and and backlash against all of this and, yes, american ceos have to be aware of it. paul: all right, hanks, gentlemen. still ahead, house democrats using their last days in the majority to step up their attack on the supreme court, holding a hearing into what they call a stealth effort on the right to influence conservative justices. the moral of the story is this: supreme court justices cannot effectively self-police their own ethics. kevin! finish finish
food and commercial workers union, in essence arguing the group is trying to organize a stealth effort at unionizing the retail chain s gregg: giles, that was a huge james, that was a huge legal concession you got out of the pastor there. a lot of these groups including our walmart claim, no, no, no, we don t have anything to do with the union, the united food and commercial workers union even though they register with the labor d. as an affiliate of them. so, i mean, this would normally have consequences but for the fact that the labor relations board is pretty much stacked pro-union, right? reporter: i can say to you, gregg, that i was aware of the potential consequences of the answers when i posed the question to the reverend dr. jones. you mentioned the political makeup of the national labor relations board is presently comprised of four members, three democrats, one republican, so
hired lawyers who filed a legal complaint with the labor relations board saying, hey, wait a minute, a lot of what they re doing here is illegal, and it is interfering with their businesses, and they wanted a stop to it. reporter: right. gregg: but my guess is the labor relations board has simply sat on their hands and so far at least taken no action which renders at least today s protests rather moot. reporter: that s right. what happened was last friday walmart filed a complaint with the national labor relations board saying, in essence, that the united food and commercial workers union by organizing these protests across more than 30 days is legally required to file a petition with the labor relations board to seek an election to form a union. and that without seeking to do that, in essence, what the uscw s trying to do here, says walmart, is mount a stealth effort to unionize the walmart work force. again, 1.4 million people across
past. however, with picketing aimed at some 1300 wal-mart stores, the company has warned of consequences for employees who walk off the job tomorrow. weir going to have more than a million associates working that day. we have been walking stores. we have been talking to associates. they are excited to serve customers. they are ready we don t think a couple of sporadic events across the country that unions do is going to have any effect whatsoever. 1/3 of the population went shopping online or bring and mortar stores last blank friday so the stakes are high. greg: how closely aligned is this wal-mart group with the union that s involved. reuters reports that a form filed with the labor department last year listed our wal-mart as a subsidiary of the union. wal-mart has filed an unfair labor practices claim against the united food and commercial workers with the national labor relations board charging that this union is, in effect, mounting a stealth effort
these protests, they focus on health benefits and salary structures and working hours. complaints against wal-mart are not new, nor is the response from the giant retailer in essence, working at wal-mart is a big deal. wal-mart is filing a claim of unfair labor practices against the u.s. tw with the national labor relations board. charging that the union is mounting a stealth effort at unionizing wal-mart workers. in violation with the rules that require a formal petition for union elections after 30 days of protests. historically, wal-mart is viewed as a place where employees exploited, locate, long working hours, no job