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In Walmart and Fast Food, Unions Scaling Up a Strike-First Strategy
http://labornotes.org/2013/01/walmart-and-fast-food-unions-scaling-strike-first-strategy
January 23, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Small but highly publicized strikes by Walmart retail and warehouse workers last fall set the labor movement abuzz and gained new respect for organizing methods once regarded skeptically.
“The labor movement is all about results,” says Dan Schlademan, who directs the Making Change at Walmart project of the Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). “The results are creating the energy.”
OUR Walmart members near Los Angeles were among several hundred retail workers who struck dozens of stores on Black Friday. Walmart workers are ignoring the typical path to a union. Photo: OUR Walmart.
Walmart is a particularly rich target because the company is so large that it sets wages and prices among suppliers and competitors.
What’s the strategy behind the latest surprising wave of activism?
FULL story at link.
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