Walkout. May 11th. Can’t do big sales with no associates.
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Unfortunately they can and will fire us all. The government will not step in and order us back to work like the Air Traffic Controllers many years ago, we are not in a safety sensitive job. Managers would be ordered to staff the clubs open to close, the managers would do it or loose their jobs, hire more people on the spot and use the associates that did not participate in the organized no show. It is not possible to organize 633 plus or minus clubs to have a walk out or no show on such short notice; and the company knows this. People would have to have money saved for months because they will terminate everyone. This generation of work force has been brainwashed to think organized labor is a bad thing. Just as the company directed.
If the company agreed to raise pay rate, they would raise cost of goods sold, we would loose sales then the company would reduce the work force. So who do you want to sacrifice? Don't get me wrong, I would not cross over, it is just there is no way to win this battle except in doing your job to the best of your ability, shop at Target, Amazon, Costco, running your managers ragged, have members calling in complaining about the heat, the cold, stop selling a product in club, not enough help in clubs, anything but member service. Then you can effect the price of the stock. Now you have their attention.
Unions are blood s---ing leeches. They steal your money to pay the fat a-- bosses to speak on your behalf. Trust me I can speak foe myself.
If at any point something would happen now is it. They are going to cripple clubs with mass walkouts because of schedule from people who were coming to work every day doing a good job.
It’s the end
Id love that. But the sad truth is every one is too much of a pu--y to do anything about it. But will b--ch and cry about it. Its 2019 and u people are too weak minded to realize the power youd all have if u came together. Sad.
Get to work or get out! Nobody forces you to stay at Sam’s. You bring everybody down with your constant negativity.
You have better odds of hitting the lottery than having any kind of organized protest.
You are talking about a company that almost nuked an entire department, Sam’s Club Meat Cutters, when some union thugs almost had a couple dozen workers start a union. Had the union spread back then, today you would see 100% of the meat cut and packed at the plant, never cut again at any club, ever. I do not blame corporate for this stance by the way, do you think Amazon, Google, Facebook, or most any Fortune 500 company doesn’t have a plan of action whenever the U word gains strength in their company, then you know nothing about business.
Fun Fact:
One of the reasons the company went to posting all schedules in one location, the break room, and ONLY in the break room, was to combat union organization rules. If a department posted their own separate schedule, ie Meat Department schedules on a cork board behind Meat Department, then the unions could say that the Meat Department was a “separate” job and they could get 6 out of the 10 employees to sign a union card to start the unions foot in the door to WMT and Sam’s.
Allegedly this is how it happened, as it was told to me by some old timers 😗
People are meek
Will never happen