I have a hard time forcing anybody to join a union. Which is what some are trying to do in forcing Walmart to go union. Employees should be given a choice if they wish to belong to a Union or not, in any business. Mugging one corporation does not solve the overall abuse of employees throughout by forcing union status for just all of Walmart employees into a national union such as the Teamsters. If I were the Walmart exec's I would beat the union guys claiming to only be wanting to "protect those poor mistreated people" to the punch and get a program started for the employees of Walmart.

If the Walmart employees want a union. They should be allowed to create their own seperate union. These store employees should be given their own new union with a charter of it's own. I would not be for Walmart employees being forced into unions that are already established and that are bullies by nature. Many unions have already forced to many jobs out of the country.

When you put together any group of people such as many of the unions have. Ones that are already established you are going to create another place where politics, bias, discrimination and prejuduce play a large part in who gets hired and who doesn't. Who gets to work this week and pay their bills. There is already to much of that going on out here.

Many people that are hired at Walmart's throughout the nation that could not get a job anywhere else. I do not know how it is for your state but here the employees at Walmart are women, multi-national, disabled and people in the retirement age group. That is here in the Midwest, that in itself say alot. In Florida I saw the same thing when I was in Walmart some years back. People who need to supplement their SS income, disabled people and people of all national origins work at Walmart. Women have come a long way but we are not all the way their yet. At least Walmart gives women work, not all companies will if they are not teachers, lawyers or accountants...etc. I have not seen any other giant corporate companies out there that have such a diversified staff of employees in their stores or businesses.

My son is not union. He is a specialty construction worker. When he goes on a job site where union workers are they treat him terrible. Some of these guys have gotten right into his face and demanded to see his union card. He is not very polite when they do that. He tells them to back off. The only reason they do is because he is big enough and strong enough to back up the "Back off" statement. trying to force someone into a union takes away the basic freedoms that Americans prize, "Freedom of choice".

It is not that anyone should be mistreated on a job anywhere in America. Personally I cannot agree with the course of many of the unions at the moment. In certain circles and segments they have become some of the worst abusers and users in our society.