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Sign of things to come to change for workers at walmart? i want to drink water here. i am joined once again by my panel, but i also want to bring in from san francisco andria dellendorf who is the chief in making changes at walmart. good to be here this morning. what sort of gains did walmart workers make with this strike this year? well, the most important gain they made is that they proved that it is possible to stand up and speak out against the country s largest employer, and workers have faced low wages. they have faced lack of hours that walmart has been in existence, but it is the first time that walmart workers stood up. walmart threatened they would lose their jobs, but they all walked back in with their heads held high to tem brace of their coworkers so they proved that it is possible to stand up around ....
Multicorporation strike that workers went out on, and based on the fact that workers are continually paid poverty wages that keep them in poverty while they are still working. full time. people wish they could get the full-time hours, but they get the part-time hours and the $7.25 minimum wage pay and they cannot afford the rent and barely food, and sometimes they c cannot afford the take the train to work, so they walk miles to work, and it is winter and cold out now, and this is what people are going through everyday in the low-wage jobs, and also in walmart and the other industries in the economy that we are becoming. so if i m a labor cynic, i say that people went out on a strike about a month ago around fast food and looks to me that fast food is about the same it was. so is this idea of strikes like this kind of a guerrilla warfare other than the chicago teachers strike that shut down the whole ....
For the labor movement, well, that may be the understatement of the year. let s take a quick review of some of the events that made headlines. in june, wisconsin unions were dealt a blow when efforts to recall anti-union governor scott walker failed. ally labors launched an extensive campaign but no match for the deep pockets of walker s donors. in september, chicago s teachers went on strike for the first time in 25 years. while they did get a pay raise they had to make concession like longer school days. and walmart organizers began to strike for holidays. and there was also michigan passing a right to work and making them the 24th state with such laws. the events of this year can leave anyone with mixed feelings and uncertainty about the future of organized labor, but that is looking at the glass half empty ....
Most of the stuff in the food and everything else that you have comes via a ship, and somebody has to take it off of the ship and put it on the railway or the truck, and this is the old-fashioned way of doing business. is there something that we learned in this narrower version of the longshoreman strike this week, marc? well, it is a good question. i was talking simply as a joke with one of the producers when i had the inside fact that there was going to be a strike and it didn t happen. but no strike. i think that there was, because it is a powerful union, and that union has some strength on the east coast. and so it was able to do certain things, but the problem is that, i think that the other part of that story is when you look at things like the steel workers, baltimore was a steel town. steel industry is gone. dead. union could not stop the closing of that plant. leo gerard who is head of the union wants to do things like having the workers to think about buying the companies t ....
City and nobody can go to school, and the form of mediation. how do you take a small sort of guerrilla warfare strike like this, and turn it into real changes in fast food? well, like the woman from walmart talking before, this is a new tactic within the labor union, and not necessarily the strike tactic, but the tactic to have workers step up, go out, you know, go on strike, an confront management in a real way, and you know, be in their face about it, and then go back to work. it is it s the rules are so stacked against workers organizing, and that is one of the reasons that the labor union has been stuck in the bind, because workers are retaliated against over and over and over. we saw the target store in long island that was organized, and they were ready to vote for the union and then all of the intimidation tactics taking the workers in the back room saying you need to do this, this, this, and it is within the law, but ....