Labor Groups Challenge Retail Giant Wal-Mart on Pressuring Employees to Vote Against Obama

Last month the Wall Street Journal revealed Wal-Mart has been warning its managers that an Obama victory would lead to unionization at Wal-Mart stores.

In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings discussing the downsides of unionization. The Wal-Mart human resources managers who run the meetings don’t specifically tell attendees how to vote but make it clear that voting for Obama would be tantamount to inviting unions in.

A coalition of prominent labor groups recently filed a complaint against Wal-Mart with the Federal Elections Commission.

The groups—American Rights At Work, AFL-CIO, Change to Win and WakeUpWalMart.com—say Wal-Mart broke a federal election law that bars corporations from expressly advocating to hourly employees the election or defeat of specific candidates.

Chris Chafe, the executive director of Change to Win, joins me here in Denver.

Chris Chafe, Executive Director of Change to Win.

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