On August 1, I told you about how Wal-Mart has been pressuring its workers to vote the way the company wants them to this fall:
They’re terrified that if you have the power to decide your own fate — to reverse decades of inequality and start bringing the benefits of your productivity home to your own family, rather than having it go to send some Wal-Mart executive’s kid to boarding school — you’ll use it. And that would put an end to an era that has been extraordinarily profitable for those fortunate few at the top.
Well, today Change to Win, along with many other labor groups, delivered a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission asking them to stop Wal-Mart’s pressure program:
Today American Rights at Work, the AFL-CIO, Change to Win, and WakeUpWalmart.com will hand deliver a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) calling for investigations into Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s unlawful corporate expenditures on electioneering and unionbusting in the workplace. A recent Wall Street Journal article (8/1/08) charges that “in recent weeks thousands of Wal-Mart’s store managers and department supervisors have been summoned to mandatory meetings” where the company told workers that “voting for Senator Obama and other Democrats would lead to [the Employee Free Choice Act’s] enactment.”
The complaint contends that Wal-Mart made “prohibited corporate expenditures by expressly advocating against Senator Obama’s election to employees who were not in its restricted class.” Further, the complainants request that “the Commission immediately open an investigation to determine whether a violation occurred and, if so, to take all appropriate steps to remedy that violation of federal election law.”
Employers are forbidden from telling employees how to vote under federal election law.
If you want to join us in this call to stop Wal-Mart’s campaign of political intimidation, use this online tool from Wake Up Wal-Mart to send your own complaint to the FEC.
Or, if you’d prefer, read the official complaint in its entirety (PDF).
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You idiots, NObody can be worse than Bush. Your overblown rhetoric is preaching to the choir and will gain few if any converts. Once again, the opposition is shooting themselves in the foot.
Posted by Shakin My Hed on August 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Posted on August 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM