Hey folks. Just got done watching Gene and Keith talking about Hill's "testicular fortitude." Maybe you all can help me figure this one out? How the hell does she keep getting unions? Why is no one talking about her WalMart connection? Do leaders of unions not care about this, or do they just not read?
Firstly, there's this article in the Village Voice I'd like to link to, from May of 2000. Village Voice 2000
And a link to the Center for Public Integrity, too. CPI
Oh and here's an AP story as well, which I'll get into in a bit. AP
Okay. Assuming you read these few links, it should be easy to see where I'm going with this. (As I write this, Keith is showing tape of Deborah Shanks crying. God, I hate WalMart. And there is nothing that they can do to ever make me shop there again.) She keeps getting these unions who don't really seem to care that there are workers who are routinely denied the right to unionize. How is this a non-issue? How do they not know that she sat on the board of this hateful company? The AFL-CIO maybe doesn't realize she was a Goldwater Girl? I just don't get it.
Back to the AP link for a minute. She returned the money due to "serious differences with current company practices" my ass. Let's face it - there's a huge backlash against WalMart in nearly every community they contaminate, and she knows it. She can't be beholden to them at all, lest someone make the connection. There is no real difference in the practices of WalMart since her last appearance on it's board. They continue to buy goods from China made by what amounts to indentured servitude. Their inspectors continue to be bought off by those factories owners, or told outright by the company to look the other way at certain infractions and outright lawbreaking. Women are still told they have opportunity to move up in the company, and yet are still passed over for promotions and paid less than men for the same jobs. They still move into a town and decimate all the surrounding small businesses, which means that all the townies have to not only shop there, but in many cases, work there as well. I really like the last quote of hers in the AP story - wonder if that bothered her while she was on the board? *Please read the fourth comment on that link - that person said it far more elegantly than I.
I work for an agency which is literally forced to buy all it's goods from WalMart. There is no other retailer who offers the prices they do in my area. But the cost of that price is too high for me, and many others, and the union leaders who keep backing Hillary need to wake up and smell the Sam's Club coffee.