Gazing into the Future: Wal-Mart and the Unions
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, together with the Teamsters Union, has lately been putting a large amount of its resources into a crusade to publicize the substandard pay and benefits of workers at the giant "big box" retailer, Wal-Mart. This campaign, given the unions' tepid effort to organize Wal-Mart's "associates," raises a number of interesting questions.