The anti Wal-Mart group Wal-Mart Watch paid about $150,000 to place this ad in yesterday's New York Times.
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, free registration may be required:
Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group organized with funding from Wal-Mart and its suppliers, issued a statement saying that "Americans have to question why the same union leaders who are failing to address diversity, transparency, accountability and sustainability in their own organizations are spending millions of dollars in union dues attacking a company that is committed to these principles and creates tens of thousands of jobs per year."
Politically, union leadership is monolithically Democratic. However, in 2004, President Bush received about 40% of the union vote in his re-election effort.
As for union members' opinion of Wal-Mart, there is a greater disconnect between what the union leaders push to those they represent, and what the union members actually believe.
From Working Families for Wal-Mart:
Clear majorities of Americans support Wal-Mart and disagree with the Washington, D.C. union leadership-funded attacks. Specifically, the poll shows that of those surveyed:71 percent of Americans believe Wal-Mart is good for consumers while 63 percent of union households hold the same belief
58 percent of Americans and 54 percent of union households believe union leaders should make protecting union jobs a higher priority than attacking Wal-Mart
60 percent of Americans say the campaign against Wal-Mart is not a good use of union dues and 44 percent of union households agree
54 percent of Americans and 42 percent of union households believe the campaign against Wal-Mart makes labor union leaders less relevant to solving the economic challenges facing working families today.
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