UFCW 789 plans rally at Best Buy corporate headquarters (remember circuit city?)

[Omaha Steve]

BLOOMINGTON - On Monday, April 27, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789 is holding a "Shame on Best Buy Rally" in Bloomington.
Although Best Buy earned $9.5 billion in profit on revenues of $40 billion in 2008, the company announced last week plans to demote as many as 8,000 senior associates and eliminate as many as 1,000 salaried assistant manager positions. Instead of paying full-time workers, the non-unionized company will increase hours worked by their part-timers, who earn much lower wages and few or no benefits.

Workers without a union contract can be fired, demoted or have their pay and benefits taken away at any time – and for almost any reason. Best Buy is also an opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act, federal legislation that would enable workers who want a union to organize more easily than under current labor law.

The rally will be at Best Buy corporate headquarters, 7601 Penn Ave. S, Bloomington from 7:30 to 9 a.m.

[Deja Q]

1. Layoffs are not a long-term solution.

:(

[dcsmart]

2. i think companies are taking advantage of our K & R

economic situation and purging their work forces whether they need to or not....why not pay part-time instead of full. but, once people cannot buy the crap these companies sell, then they will reevaluate their postions...maybe....unless of course the EFCA passes and the whole country unionizes and the Workers Unite and the revolution comes and workers take over the means of production.....and.....no, wait.....i'm awake...not dreaming...sorry. it's still early on saturday....LOL


Keep up the fight comrades.

here is something fun

woody guthrie-this land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialistwebzine.blogspot.com%2F&feature=player_embedded



and of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWMB8xtK1IM&feature=related

[pberq]

3. Kick and nominated

"Workers without a union contract can be fired, demoted or have their pay and benefits taken away at any time – and for almost any reason."

An important point to keep in mind.