Anti-union video by Target

[UTUSN]

The video sports a tag, "Property of Target. Do not duplicate" so for the record, this is a post of the Gawker item, not that I'm afeard or anything like that...

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http://gawker.com/behold-targets-brand-new-cheesy-anti-union-video-1547193676

[font size=5]Behold, Target's Brand New Cheesy Anti-Union Video[/font]

Hamilton NOLAN


Target is America's third-largest retailer. It is also as staunchly anti-union as they come. In 2011, we showed you the cheesy anti-union video all Target employees were shown. We now bring you the new cheesy anti-union video all Target employees must endure.

The existence of Target's new anti-union employee training video (entitled "Think Hard: Protect Your Signature&quot was first reported today by Josh Eidelson at Salon. And we have obtained the actual video, which is above. It features Dawn and Ricardo, a cool, knowing, multiracial pair of Target employees who are here to talk to you, the Target team member, about the dangers of unions. "Someday, someone you don't know may approach you at work, or visit you at home, asking you to sign your name to an authorization card, petition, or some other union document," Ricardo warns.

Stranger danger! ....

The video drones on for 15 minutes, as Dawn and Ricardo plod through various dire consequences of unionization. "You could come into work one day to find union protesters telling our guests not to shop at Target," Dawn says. "And how could that possibly be good for anyone on our team?"

I dunno... higher wages and better benefits and improved working conditions? Notably absent from this video is any discussion of the fact that the primary reason Target does not want any of its employees to unionize is not because it fears a loss of its precious "culture," but because it fears having to pay higher wages and provide better benefits and working conditions. I don't know how that bit was left out of the script. Quite an oversight.

At the end, the video proclaims that if a union comes into the happy Target workplace, "All those open doors may have to close." Considering what lies behind those open doors, that sounds like a great improvement.

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[PumpkinAle]

1. Target, Walmart and others

are all the same. For bigger and bigger profits and to hell with the employees.

I always find it ironic that people go to great lengths to bash Wal-mart and say nothing against Target. They all make great profits at the expense of their employees.

[B Calm]

2. Auto Zone too! Orentiation with that company is a real eye opener!

[PumpkinAle]

4. Did not know that

all afraid of the unions, because hey paying a living wage is just so "American" in their minds.

[daligirl519]

3. I worked

for Macy's briefly while between jobs last year, and they had the same kind of insulting, cheesy anti-union video during orientation. I nearly exploded I wanted to speak up so badly! I could tell that the manager running the session was watching to see people's reaction to the video.

[Omaha Steve]

5. IF Target had....

A unionized IT dept they would not have had all those ID thefts from THEIR system on Black Friday!