Wal-Mart Shoppers, Workers Ignore NEA-AFT in Droves
You'll need to register with the site to read this article, but it's worth the effort. Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went to a local Wal-Mart to ask real people about shopping and working there. Turns out they like it, and don't much care about the boycott or the Wake Up Wal-Mart campaign. Kersten writes:
"A woman loading packs of ballpoint pens into her cart caught my eye. No, she didn't have 120 children. She was Karla Keller Torp, executive director of the Caring Tree in Bloomington, a nonprofit organization that partners with social service agencies such as the Boys and Girls Clubs to get school supplies to low-income kids across Minnesota.
"Torp told me that 121,000 Minnesota kids live at or below the poverty level. Last year, Caring Tree outfitted 17,000 of them for school. Yes, she knew about the teachers' union boycott, but wasn't deterred.
'At the Caring Tree, we're trying to squeeze every dollar we have for the sake of the kids. Wal-Mart helps us leverage and maximize our dollars.'"
People exercising their consumer choice is the best response to the union campaign. And isn't this kind of consumer choice the reason Wal-Mart is being targeted by NEA-AFT, instead of, say, non-union Target, also the focus of a UFCW organizing drive?
"A woman loading packs of ballpoint pens into her cart caught my eye. No, she didn't have 120 children. She was Karla Keller Torp, executive director of the Caring Tree in Bloomington, a nonprofit organization that partners with social service agencies such as the Boys and Girls Clubs to get school supplies to low-income kids across Minnesota.
"Torp told me that 121,000 Minnesota kids live at or below the poverty level. Last year, Caring Tree outfitted 17,000 of them for school. Yes, she knew about the teachers' union boycott, but wasn't deterred.
'At the Caring Tree, we're trying to squeeze every dollar we have for the sake of the kids. Wal-Mart helps us leverage and maximize our dollars.'"
People exercising their consumer choice is the best response to the union campaign. And isn't this kind of consumer choice the reason Wal-Mart is being targeted by NEA-AFT, instead of, say, non-union Target, also the focus of a UFCW organizing drive?
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