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or else what ........ they quit and work elsewhere
Anti-Walmart Flash Mob Turns Up at Store Demanding Pensions & Benefits for Employees…or Else
What better way to help communities in need of work than to invoke an angry flash-mob targeting a major retailer that offers nearby residents… jobs?
Well, that is precisely what happened in Laurel, Maryland, when an activist group called “Respect DC” recently turned up at a local Walmart to deliver an ultimatum to the retail giant: give your employees high wages and top-notch benefits, or else. It is perhaps also worth noting that RDC’s politically-charged flash mob was promoted on the SEIU Youtube page. (Hmmm SEIU promotes message of RespectDC - color me jaded, and skeptical, but I be willing to put down a Benjamin that SEIU is behind this little drama)
To deliver its message, the group‘s medium was a jazz performance of Aretha Franklin’s famed song “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” In the flash-mobber’s re-worked song lyrics, RDC apparently wants Walmart to promise, along with great pay and other benefits, retirement pensions for all its employees:
“What you want, Walmart you got it. What you need, you know we got it. All we’re asking is for a little respect if you come to D.C…. We ain’t gonna give you all our money, unless you give us some retirement, honey.”
According to RDC, Walmart needs to “show respect” to the neighborhoods in which the retail giant plans to open new stores by meeting with “community leaders” to whom it will “guarantee,” in writing no less, to “improve” the quality of life for its employees. The RDC website explains the intent of its flash mob:
More than 100 DC residents and members of our coalition held a flash mob at the Laurel, Md., Walmart, to demonstrate the depth of support for an enforceable community benefits agreement(don't they benefit the area by bringing JOBS ... sounds like more Socialist Propaganda Newspeak) before the world’s largest retailer is allowed to enter the nation’s capital. Accompanied by a brass band and chorus, the participants sang out, “All we’re asking is for Respect (Prove you mean it)”.
Did they say “allowed?”
In fact, RDC’s sole mission as stated in its charter is to “educate” community leaders about Walmart’s “checkered” track record of:
…paying poverty-level wages, forcing competitors to close, causing a net loss of jobs, breaking its promises, and multiple lawsuits alleging that the company discriminates against female employees and engages in wage theft, including the the largest sex discrimination class action in U.S history.
RDC then goes on to literally “ensure” that “no Walmart” will be built in the D.C. metro area unless the advocacy group’s demands are met.
How the group intends to deliver on that promise, however, still remains unclear.
you give in to these people and their 'demands' they just come back for more and more POWER ......... they don't want to solve anything, just gather more 'control'
2nd frame of the video :
.... but walmart has yet to come to our community and negotiate standards for workers and neighborhoods where it wants to locate .....
WTF ....... getting all pissy because Walmart has not come begging to be let in
standards for workers ...... I though that was handled by a whole host of Federal, State and Local LAWS ........ what begging must take place 1st
these people are pretty full of themselves ........
last frame:
Walmart:
Respect Associates and Respect DC
or STAY OUT
LIVING Wages and HEALTHY Communities Coalition = Progressive / Fascists
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