I know we've all been brainwashed to reject unionization, but it is probably past time to think about it at the HO. If I hadn't been sh*t-canned in April I would definitely consider it. That might be the only way to make execs in fairyland take notice.
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Shad,
I'm not the CEO. I highly doubt he reads this message board.
You will not get a union into Walmart. It won't happen. Ever. Jesus himself couldn't get a union into Walmart.
For one, if it was just a single group of employees, Walmart would just fire them all. There would be a re-org and suddenly those jobs wouldn't be needed any longer.
If the entire home office went crazy and decided to sign union cards, they'd just move the HQ to some other pro-business southern city that wanted jobs and had sense enough not to try this union nonsense. Then this entire town folds because that's what happens when THE company leaves a company town. Remember what Walmart did with the situation with the meat cutters.
Third, nobody wants to pay union dues out of their paycheck every month. That alone would cause people to vote no on your crazy scheme.
Fifty one percent of home office will never sign union cards. Never. For all intents and purposes, Walmart owns Bentonville and everyone in it. What they say goes.
But all this is just what I think. Feel free to tilt at windmills if you want to.
Uh okay doug, do you know what you're doing to this company town? Get ready, it's coming!
Uh do you even know how many people work at HQ? How many signatures you'd need? Thousands.
You think you're going to get thousands of people to sign union cards in Bentonville Arkansas? It will never happen. Bentonville is a company town. Walmart owns everyone in it. Best get used to it.
I'm hearing this more and more when speaking to people outside the office...only a matter of time now
Boeing's salaried engineers are unionized in Seattle ie SEEPA.
I have never heard that salaried associates can unionize. Not sure I believe that.
Besides, what good would it do to unionize a single team? Walmart could just eliminate that team and problem solved.
Plus union dues are expensive. Yikes.
You can unionize in the home office even if you are salaried. Just not if you manage someone. An individual team can unionize. That's the reason for the 7 to 1 manager ratio that happened a year or so ago.
It will never happen. Why do you think most of HO is salary? It's so you can't unionize.