same thing with the autoworkers. they were bailed out. i m not sure walmart is on the verge of going out of business, far from it. mr. rosen pointed out just how much money they make. but that is the whole sort of give and take between unions and the private sector, and they have to worry that if they push too hard, maybe the company doesn t go out of business, but it has to lay people off. patti ann: and this is a more interesting twist on this, though, because walmart is not a union shop. ofy of these protesters not them are union members, many of whom were bussed in by the union organizers. right, i mean, listen, this is why we re here to provide both sides of the story. the whole notion that a union person can t put together a subject and a predicate and explain, say why they re there is absurd. i ve been to union protests. you ask the construction workers 20 years ago, 25 years ago when i was a kid with my dad, they would put more than a subject and a predicate together, let me
the united states. we expected that we would have a ruling on that complaint of unfair labor practices from the national labor relations board sometime yesterday, over thanksgiving, so that it would apply to what we re seeing here. but it never came. typically, those complaints take six weeks to adjudicate. it was filed in little rock. the memphis regional field office was handling it, but so far no ruling. and to the national labor relations board apparently keeping its hands off today s activities. gregg: james rosen, if you re able to get somebody there to put a subject with a predicate, we ll come back to you. thanks very much. reporter: all right, thank you. [laughter] patti ann: well, as you can see, unions are backing these protests. are they accomplishing anything? charles gasparino is a fox business network senior correspondent. charles, thanks for joining us. i will try to put a subject and a predicate together this morning. [laughter] patti ann: they re protesting for hi
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
whether that is the way to win over the hearts and minds. this is what makes it so interesting. i think that all parties would agree that it is an attempt to make a splash, especially to kill some business on this busiest day of the entire year. the real question is what is the likely impact of that? is the impact is to get wal-mart workers on the side of the union or would-be union, it may have some effect. if it is to make a broader case, and i think the intervention for mass protest would suggest that it might be that, we ll really have that effect? will it anger or upset potential customers who don t want to go through the hassle of walking through these union protests or decide it is not worth it and don t even show up. if that was the case, i think that they might have the inverse effect.
unions. first it was his campaign s new web ad depicting union protests in missouri as a tax on small business. then it was his speech at a boeing facility in south carolina where he said he would outlaw unions from making campaign donations using member dues. we have no problem with unions. unions can be productive and helpful in keeping enterprises successful and thriving. when a president runs over the principles of democracy to pursue an agenda which happens to be associated with the interest of people that donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his campaign, it is something we cannot abide. so romney doesn t agree with the agenda of organized labor, but he s fine with the agendas of his biggest donors. romney has said he would repeal the dodd/frank financial reform act because of its regulations on wall street final firms. washington post reported the largest corporate sources of money for romney are mostly finance industry leaders