Why does Walmart and McDonalds shut down the esablishment when threatened with workers organizing?
953092
Union busting is as old as the industrial age. Closing factories and retail outlets to break unions has been common since the end of the nineteenth century. Closing a store is a lot less expensive to a company like Wal-Mart than letting a union be established.\n\nIt is too bad that here in the United States the Unions have an adversarial relationship with management. In many countries Unions work with management and not against them—it is one of the secrets of Japan's success. \n\nIt is clear that here in the United States the distribution of wealth within most companies is enormously unfair. With executives making hundreds of millions of dollars in salary and perks while the average worker is not making a living wage--something is very wrong with this formula. \n\nThis is probably a great time for Unions to revive. This time they must keep the crooks away and work with management and the government. There is clearly a need for organized labor in America and I am a conservative and have served in senior management positions.
884531
It's a bad idea.  Yet it makes a great point in alerting the public to a corporate structure that seems to be taking over every country it can gain access to.  Perhaps Wal-mart is owned by the government & they just want it to look like a private enterprise?  Things that make ya go hmmm!  :o)
22839
They are doing that in many smaller communities.  Just imagine you owned the local grocery store and are making a good living.  Walmart comes into town, you are out of business.  You will never be able to get the wholesale prices that they get or sell the different products that they are able to.\n\nThey are lowering income levels of the entire community when they move in.  That is according to their own study.\n\nAnother issue with Walmart is how they deal with suppliers.  If you had a farm and sold your produce to Walmart, they will say we need a 20% discount from you.  And if they are you only customer, what do you do?\n\nThey are hard on the community (store owners) they move in and the suppliers.
330773
a disadvantage is that if the union decides to strike you're stuck without work.  also the union dues.  I don't know what the advantages are but where I work the warehouse workers are unionized and they are a pain in management's butt.
825925
There are good points and bad points. The only good thing here in McDonalds employees here have the opportunity to join a union and McDonalds hate it!!!
756455
You mean persecuted. Many people are set up in order to conveniently dismiss them.  It is extremely important in a work environment to adhere to the rules of the work place and don't get caught up in peer employee relations as most often it is another employee that helps get you fired.
779447
I don't think the problem is that people think Walmart is bad for the country in general, but more on a local level. In my area there has been opposition to new Walmarts based upon how it will affect the traffic flow and congestion in the area. \nThe old argument that they will put "downtowns" and smaller local businesses out is I believe a foregone conclusion. Most downtowns have eroded years ago, and  the local businesses have been replaced by national chains, and they're in malls.\nOne of the biggest problems has been that Walmart becomes a major employer in their area, and that the employees were being shorted in benefits, hours and pay, but those issues are being addressed.
740070
Fine the employers and the jobs will dry up for illegals.  No jobs, no illegals.  But this will not happen as it would solve the problem, and as you can see, nobody in power is interested in solving it.  Instead, they allow passions to be stirred, and try to distract the public with fictions like a border fence, etc.  It is time for the public to realize that some powerful people have friends, like Tyson Foods, profitting from taking jobs away from Americans and giving them to people who will do the work for less than the minimum wage, without any benefits - in effect, slave labor.  Why would anyone who loves this country, wish an outcome like this?
373631
Because they manufacture by paying their workers less than $1.00 per day and US workers get considerably more... they can make a cheaper product making more profit for the company! It puts US workers in a bind and causes a lot of controversy similar to the WalMart issues!
166689
Keep records of every instance when the union fails to protect its members.\n\nThen call the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board).
99833
Walmart is a private business, they have the right to sell or not sell the items they want. Unless laws dictate them one way or another.  I feel it is great that they are concerned about what they do sell.  And since there are other choices of stores to shop at, if one doesn't like it, they can shop somewhere else.  Just like I have the option of not shopping at stores selling things I don't agree with
975342
Very mixed feelings here...certainly there are some socio-economic considerations involving any Walmart store, but do we really want to empower government to the point that it can decide where people should conveniently shop in their community?\n\nOverall I guess I would likely oppose any ban on free enterprise and so I would oppose the San Diego city council decision...\n\nJust a thought...
763885
i guess it would mainly be situations where something "took off" and the person in the job handling it is very overworked and the entity doesn't realize they need to hire help in that area.  For example if the number of students goes from 10 to 1000 the person who is handling student services is going to be overworked if management doesn't figure out this impact.  It also happens the other way - things have less to do (for example if military training in a certain area goes way down because they are phasing out that system) then sometimes a person is left handling it and essentially has nothing to do.  This is more of an impact on the organization because the person cannot contribute.
139765
I’m sure it does affect their sales somewhat. All retail outlets censer what they allow in their stores by choosing which products to put on their shelves and which to not whether for moral or economic reasons. They also do not sell porn videos at Wal-Mart, so you could say that they (and other retailers), some by law and some by choice, have been censoring content in their stores for moral reasons.  Is it worse or better for society to have access to these items...it doesn't matter, this is a retail store and they choose what is sold there based on their beliefs and culture of the corp. involved that best suits their business needs.
436842
It is possible to lose your job on May 1 if you mean, "is it legal to fire us?" \n\nI don't think many employers *will* fire people for that, but I can guarantee you that that fear will cause the number of people participating in the boycott to be lower than it otherwise would, no matter how many people do decide to participate.\n\nThe economy will technically be affected, probably more in some sectors than others, but nothing will crash because of 1 day.
865431
Well, for one thing, Wal-Mart has one of the worst ratings in terms of how they treat their employees.  I know people who boycott them and have encouraged me to do likewise.\nThey are not like Costco at all.\nWhy would Californians want to encourage a store to treat its peopel poorly?\nWhy would they want to pay when the full-timers get cut back to part-time, lose their bennies, and go on Medicaid and use state-supported supplemental insurance plans (I'm assuming; I'm from NY)?\nWhy would they want the related stress that comes with the anger and worthless feelings of being in such an environment so many hours a week?\nWhy would they want them around at all?
1183859
In some cities there are codes and permits you have to have to picket.   So you have to be in compliance with city codes.  you can not block people comming in or out of that business, and can not harass anyone.