Looks like I'm joining the Target boycott, hadn't been paying attention until I saw this:
From RawStory:
Gawker obtained a training video that Target uses to warn its employees about the danger of joining a union.
The 13-milute video titled “Think Hard Before You Sign” is hosted by Doug and Maria, two actors posing as Target employees.
“We’re a target because we’re a threat to unions,” Doug claims. “The unions that represent grocery store workers.”
“When we take business away from unionized grocery stores that means they need fewer employees,” Maria continues.
“And fewer grocery store employees means fewer union members. And fewer members? Well that’s a problem for the union business. That’s right, I said business. Union business,” Doug adds.
The video can be seen here : http://gawker.com/...
unable to link to it but really go watch it please.
Highlights include:
* The fictional employees' assurance that "you can get more hours" without a union—although a persistent inability to get enough hours to earn a living wage is one of the prime reasons that Target employees in New York are now contemplating joining a union.
* The repeated reminders that "you have the right" to not sign a union card, pay union dues, or have a union represent you in any way, as if union-busting were a dramatic assertion of a retail employee's fundamental human rights.