    
Christine Baker
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 167
Registered: 08-2002
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Sample of a press release other than announcing "partership:"
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-10-200 2/0001797745&EDATE=
Wal-Mart's War On Workers: Managers Speak Out for the First Time to Expose Wal-Mart's Dirty Campaign to Suppress Worker Rights, Says UFCW
Newly Released Video Featuring Wal-Mart Managers and Workers
Available at UFCW.org
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Go behind the closed doors of
management's secret meetings and find out the reality that Wal-Mart covers up
with its smiling face. Intimidation, threats, profiling, surveillance, illegal
firings and Orwellian double talk are integral parts of a corporate-wide
culture and continuous campaign to crush worker organizing efforts according
to Wal-Mart managers and workers featured in a newly released video, Wal-
Mart's War On Workers.
For the first time, managers who were actually there as it happened tell
the true story of Wal-Mart's war on workers. The words, the faces and the
expressions of the managers and workers paint a grim picture of the reality
behind the smiling face.
Highlights of the video include:
* Supervisory personnel -- titled "people managers" -- profile and
identify potential union supporters for heightened scrutiny, discipline,
isolation or termination. Union busting manuals are hidden from workers,
with managers instructed never to allow associates to see or even be
aware of the manual. Secret management meetings are held in out of the
way locations with directions to the meetings covertly slipped to key
managers.
* Every store manager has a hotline number to report any union activity,
real or imagined, immediately to the "People Department" in Bentonville.
Union busting is a key component of every manager's job, and drilling
anti-union sentiment into every associate is a daily routine with the
constant repetition of Wal-Mart's prescribed anti-union mantra, "I don't
need third party representation, I can speak for myself."
* The company's response to worker organizing activity can be ruthless and
devastating to workers. A team from Bentonville descends on the
offending store or Sam's club, and what follows is a steady dose of
harassment, forced meetings, threatened job or benefit loss,
browbeating of individual workers in meetings with multiple supervisors,
promises of promotion or pay increases and discipline and often firings
for those who refuse to capitulate to company pressure.
The video is part of a mass mobilization effort to ignite grass roots
efforts across the United States to demand that Wal-Mart obey the law, respect
the rights of workers and create good jobs with living wages and family
benefits. As the largest employer in the United States with over 900,000
American workers, Wal-Mart is setting, and sinking, the standards for wages,
benefits and corporate conduct.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) -- an independent government
agency -- has issued complaints against the retailer in 14 states for illegal
firings, threats, intimidation and coercion.
Visit UFCW.org and see the video in its entirety.
The 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International
Union (UFCW) is America's neighborhood union with members working in local
neighborhood grocery stores in virtually every community. UFCW members working
in packing houses and food processing plants put dinner on the table for
America's families. In nursing homes and hospitals, the UFCW is giving care a
voice. And in chemical, textile, garment and manufacturing plants, the UFCW is
making it in the U.S.A.
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