past. however, with picketing aimed at some 1300 wal-mart stores, the company has warned of consequences for employees who walk off the job tomorrow. weir going to have more than a million associates working that day. we have been walking stores. we have been talking to associates. they are excited to serve customers. they are ready we don t think a couple of sporadic events across the country that unions do is going to have any effect whatsoever. 1/3 of the population went shopping online or bring and mortar stores last blank friday so the stakes are high. greg: how closely aligned is this wal-mart group with the union that s involved. reuters reports that a form filed with the labor department last year listed our wal-mart as a subsidiary of the union. wal-mart has filed an unfair labor practices claim against the united food and commercial workers with the national labor relations board charging that this union is, in effect, mounting a stealth effort
gunmen who freely admit being at the consulate at night walked free and ben dossey. yesterday, the national security personnel and ben dossey, he was killed when returning home from work. he may have had information on the four americans. ainsley: we have so much to be thankful today, including your health. gregg: as we countdown to one of the busiest shopping days of the year, thousands of wal-mart employees are preparing to make good on their promise about black friday blackouts. threatening to walk off the job and take part in dozens of protests around the country. james rosen has been tracking this story. what are the workers protesting? what is wal-mart s response to a? the statements we received from the united food and commercial workers and from the group that technically organize
unionize walmart for about 15 or 20 years. they have considerable funding that the actual number is not public record, but they do collect, the group does collect about $5 a month from workers. so they are getting funding from the workers. a lot of the money is probably coming from the united food and commercial workers i should say it clearly is. they have an incentive to do this becau this, the union does, because according to them it s actually hurting their negotiations with some of the other stores like the safeways, the giants and other grocery stores because they say they can t pay more wages because they re trying to compete with walmart. to that end, there is a specific quote i want to get from your article in terms of how walmart has responded. they say, walmart says wages and benefits for its 1.4 million u.s. employees are as good or better than other retailers and that our walmart members helped
the course for many big labor thugs. no surprise in the aftermath of a democrat congressman we talked about this last week, telling these union thugs to get a little bloody on the the streets that we have this kind of confrontation, near riot, i think was the term that senator grossman used when he initially described it. i think that is right. my question for many of the unions whose signs were represented by this mob, including the united food and commercial workers and of course the purple army of the service employees international union, my question is this, is this the kind of behavior that you think is making america s children proud? because as i recall, president obama in the aftermath of the tucson pass kerr called on all of us to engage in behave tucson massacre called on all of us to engage in behavior that would make america s children
thugs. no surise in the aftermath of a democrat congressman we talked about this last week, telling these union thugs to get a little bloody on the the streets that we have this kind of confrontation, near riot, i think was the term that senator grossman used when he initially described it. i think that is right. my question for many of the unions whose signs were represented by this mob, including the united food and commercial workers and of course the purple army of the service employees international union, my question is this, is this the kind of behavior that you think is making america s children proud? because as i recall, president obama in the aftermath of the tucson pass kerr called on all of us to engage in behave tucson massacre called on all of us to engage in behavior that would make america s children