{"id":2701,"date":"2008-08-24T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/24\/wal-mart-tells-employees-to-vote-gop\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T14:18:30","slug":"wal-mart-tells-employees-to-vote-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/08\/24\/wal-mart-tells-employees-to-vote-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart tells employees to vote GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/s_584448.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080826-wal-mart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080826-wal-mart.jpg\" title=\"080826-wal-mart.jpg\" alt=\"080826-wal-mart.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Always low-price Wal-Mart is also always low wage, low benefits and low ethics when it comes to its workers, here and abroad.The company that insiders claim encouraged employees to seek taxpayer-funded health care for the poor now is accused of encouraging its store managers and department supervisors to vote Republican in November.If those employees do so, they&#8217;d be committing electoral hara-kiri. It is hard to fathom an act more inimical to their economic interests.According to The Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart made it clear in mandatory meetings around the country that a Democrat victory would be a disaster for its anti-union business model.The focus of the meetings was legislation known as the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow employees to unionize without a formal union election if more than 50 percent sign certification cards. Sen. Barack Obama is a co-sponsor of the measure while Sen. John McCain opposes it &#8212; a fact that Wal-Mart drove home to its supervisors. Image source : adpulp.com\u00c2\u00a0 &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/s_584448.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">News selected by Covalence | Region: <\/span><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">USA<\/span><\/st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">: <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Wal Mart<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Source:\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburghlive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always low-price Wal-Mart is also always low wage, low benefits and low ethics when it comes to its workers, here and abroad.The company that insiders claim encouraged employees to seek taxpayer-funded health care for the poor now is accused of encouraging its store managers and department supervisors to vote Republican in November.If those employees do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}