Quick Settlement of Mexican Wal-Mart Worker Strike is Suspicious (politically controlled union)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.newwest.net/citjo/article/quick_settlement_of_mexican_wal_mart_worker_strike_is_suspicious/C33/L33/

By Nick Gier, New West Unfiltered 2-12-08

QUICK SETTLEMENT OF MEXICAN
WAL-MART WORKER STRIKE IS SUSPICIOUS

by Nick Gier ([e-mail])

Every winter since my retirement I spend a month in Mexico at a timeshare in Cabo San Lucas. Over the years, I’ve seen many changes, and the most noticeable one is the Big Box stores going up along the 25-mile freeway between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas.

Walmart, CostCo, Sam’s Club, and Home Depot stand as monuments to the new global marketplace. Both tourists and locals load up their cars with groceries and other items as the mom and pop markets struggle to make ends meet.

On February 7, workers at the Los Cabos Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, and the VIPs Restaurant decided to call a strike. The workers complained that they had to work more than 8 hours a day; they were not paid over-time; they were forced to take arbitrary days off; their wages were sub-standard; and women suffered discrimination and sexual abuse.

At noon about 300 workers gathered outside the stores flying black and red strike flags. Their actions were swiftly rewarded. At 9 o’clock the next morning a contract was signed between Wal-Mart executives and union leaders in Mexico City.

Leading up to the strike, Wal-Mart had been telling the workers that they had already made a deal with their own labor association. The employees were both puzzled and insulted by this information. They had never heard about this organization, and a group of them told Wal-Mart that they wanted to be represented by the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Confederacy, with the wonderful acronym of CROC.

Because of a steep decline in union membership in the U.S., precipitated by Ronald Reagan firing striking air controllers and Republican presidents stacking the National Labor Relations Board with anti-union appointments, American employers have taken advantage of the suppression of unions and the sad lack of labor literacy and awareness in the working population.

FULL story at link.

[thunder rising]

1. American's, stupidly convinced of their individualism, fail to see capital IS UNIONIZED.

It starts with an "Introduction to Fucking Labor" in every business college in the world. The more you buy into it the greater the corps let you rise. But the real training is at Yale, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, ... In these institutions they measure you like an athlete for your ability to Fuck Labor while avoiding negative phrases and best use of double speak.