Now Wal-Mart Watch, the United Food & Commercial Foodworkers' funded group just started a cross country bus tour. The whole bus-thing was probably inspired by Tom Wolfe's 1960s book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
The problem with liberals is that many of them are still living in the 1960s. Heads up lefties: The Sixties ended 34 years ago.
From CNN Money:
WakeupWalmart.com, backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, has launched a nationwide bus tour to make its case against Wal-Mart's low wages and restrictive employee benefits.
The "2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America" tour is traveling from New York City westward across 19 states, making 35 stops and culminating in a Labor Day event in Seattle.
"The idea is to build public awareness and put political pressure on the retailer," said Chris Kofinis, communications director for WakeupWalmart.com. "Wal-Mart has to realize [that] its negative impact on our economy and society is not being ignored."
Wal-Mart questions the motives behind the campaign. "This is a union funded publicity stunt that's more about politics than anything else," said David Tovar, spokesman for Wal-Mart. Tovar points out Wal-Mart's $23 a month health plans offered to employees and its creation of tens of thousands of jobs a year. "The fact is they're attacking the wrong company."
"Union-funded publicity stunt" can only mean "union dues-funded publicity stunt."
The Wal-Mart Watch bus tour will be in the Chicago area on Saturday, August 12. Maybe I'll be there. It could be groovy.
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