Walmart's Anti-Union Message — Transcript

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1. 0:00labor unions unions we don't think that
2. 0:03a labor union is necessary here during
3. 0:13my orientation we went through
4. 0:15everything and it all seemed pretty
5. 0:17normal and then at the very end they
6. 0:19showed us this anti-union propaganda
7. 0:21video they had these people that they
8. 0:23said were Walmart employees and they
9. 0:25were talking all about how they felt
10. 0:27valued by Walmart and how they felt like
11. 0:31they didn't need unions we hope that you
12. 0:33never have to deal with a union
13. 0:34organizing drive in your facility and
14. 0:36they just kind of kept reiterating over
15. 0:38and over again like a new union we don't
16. 0:40need a union Walmart already treats us
17. 0:43pretty well we've got a great thing
18. 0:45going here great benefits job security
19. 0:47career opportunities I worked there for
20. 0:50eight months I didn't have any benefits
21. 0:52at all because they didn't give you
22. 0:54benefits until you reached a year and
23. 0:57even then I had a lot of co-workers that
24. 0:59were very purposefully kept under
25. 1:00full-time hours so that they wouldn't
26. 1:03get benefits millions of people around
27. 1:05the world have nothing how can you be
28. 1:07upset at a company that provides
29. 1:08employment for 1.4 million people my
30. 1:11which there was 765 an hour it was part
31. 1:16of why I had to leave because I couldn't
32. 1:17really afford to pay all of my bills
33. 1:19while I was making that amount of money
34. 1:22that was even while I was trying to get
35. 1:24assistance like food stamps you don't
36. 1:26know the major welfare recipient in the
37. 1:28United States of America is well at
38. 1:31Walmart I lived in a really tiny studio
39. 1:33apartment at the time I couldn't afford
40. 1:35a car half the time I couldn't really
41. 1:37afford the bus so sometimes I would
42. 1:39either catch rides with other people or
43. 1:41I would have to walk to work I almost
44. 1:44always had to pay my rent late why go to
45. 1:47the doctor's office when you can go to
46. 1:48Walmart now I didn't have any health
47. 1:50care the time that I worked there and I
48. 1:52have an anxiety disorder so I really
49. 1:54should have been on medication but
50. 1:56because they couldn't get benefits
51. 1:57through Walmart and I couldn't afford
52. 1:58them on my own I meant that I had to go
53. 2:00without it I come from really small
54. 2:01towns and in that town all of the
55. 2:04factories went out of business and so
56. 2:06the main employer in that town is mostly
57. 2:09the Walmart so for people that can't get
58. 2:12those factory jobs anymore they had to
59. 2:13go to the Walmart because that was the
60. 2:15place that was always hiring workers
61. 2:17have a choice about where they want to
62. 2:18work if they're choosing to work at
63. 2:19Walmart you know that is their choice I
64. 2:21don't move to that area and try to find
65. 2:24something thing because you've all it's
66. 2:27kind of one of those things that
67. 2:28everyone jokes about with each other
68. 2:30everyone's struggling to get by because
69. 2:32that's the normal in that environment it
70. 2:35was everyone it was every single person
71. 2:37that I talked to was worried all the
72. 2:39time we don't think that a labor union
73. 2:47is necessary here