Menard's contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch

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8. John Menard is a big Squat Wanker donor, and I avoid his stores like the plague ...

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/secret-1-5-million-donation-from-wisconsin-114429739886.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

John Menard Jr. is widely known as the richest man in Wisconsin. A tough-minded, staunchly conservative 75-year-old billionaire, he owns a highly profitable chain of hardware stores throughout the Midwest. He’s also famously publicity-shy — rarely speaking in public or giving interviews.

So a little more than three years ago, when Menard wanted to back Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — and help advance his pro-business agenda — he found the perfect way to do so without attracting any attention: He wrote more than $1.5 million in checks to a pro-Walker political advocacy group that pledged to keep its donors secret, three sources directly familiar with the transactions told Yahoo News.

And it paid off ...

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/scott-walker-opponents-question-his-wedc-role-after-menard-report/article_79997f77-8c8b-5755-8ff0-80faca65c767.html

The Yahoo report noted that Menards — Menard's big box home improvement store chain — was awarded up to $1.8 million in tax credits by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the public-private jobs agency chaired by Walker, in 2013 and 2014.