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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Walmart Exec Leads Shadowy Smear Campaign Against Black Friday Activists
http://www.thenation.com/blog/177376/former-walmart-exec-leads-shadowy-smear-campaign-against-black-friday-activistsAs activists continue to organize demonstrations at McDonalds, Walmart and other low-wage firms, big protests are planned against retailers for mistreating their workers this Black Friday. In response, union-busting consultants are ramping up efforts to marginalize them.
Last nightWorker Center Watch, a new website dedicated to attacking labor-affiliated activist groups like OUR Walmart, Restaurant Opportunities Center, and Fast Food Forwardbegan sponsoring advertisements on Twitter to promote smears against the protests planned for Black Friday. In one video sponsored by the group, activists demanding a living wage and better working conditions for workers are portrayed as lazy professional protesters who havent bothered to get jobs themselves.
This Black Friday, just buy your gifts, not their lies, instructs the Worker Center Watch narrator. Watch it:
Worker Center Watch has no information its website about its sponsors. Yet the group attacks labor activists and community labor groups for lacking transparency. Hiding behind these non-profits, unions mask their true motivations, circumvent operational requirements and skirt reporting and disclosure obligations, says Worker Center Watch, referring to labor-supported worker centers like OUR Walmart.
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Former Walmart Exec Leads Shadowy Smear Campaign Against Black Friday Activists (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2013
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DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)1. and many people
want to elect a former wal mart exec named Hillary to be president.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)3. Won't be much of change, then, will it. ? n/t
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Board member, not exec, but your point stands.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)6. New Boss same as old Boss
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)2. Hey hey hey. I'd say they're just a little bit too touchy.
Sounds like the big-box/wage-slave activism is more effective than I thought.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)4. k&r for labor. n/t
-Laelth
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)7. OOoooooooooooooo! scare us with big scary legal words!!!
Hiding behind these non-profits, unions mask their true motivations, circumvent operational requirements and skirt reporting and disclosure obligations,
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you, so-called Work Center Watch.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)8. kick
Best youtube comment concerning Worker Center Watch:
"The irony of you calling them liars."