How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce

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I read this with an eye out for what electronic surveillance they did but it doesn't seem like there is anything documented here that is too outrageous.

I was under the mistaken assumption that there aren't people in this world that would be asked to do things like this and would refuse out of virtue.

I don't think I'll ever hire anyone who's ever worked for Lockheed Martin. They simply have no morals.

Why do they have no morals? If you have worked hard to build up a business and then you find out that some of your workforce is engaging in efforts that will destroy your business, would you not want to be kept abreast of it? If you do not feel that the union efforts would destroy business, witness the revenue issue Wal-Mart is experiencing now with a $10/hr wage floor; something the unions would like to start at and move to $15/hr.

Unions have on a consistent basis driven the operating costs of low cost companies through litigation, union negotiations, and other minutiae to bankruptcy. Witness the default process of the Haggen Grocery Store, where union rules drove a business into the red through non-negotiable states.

If the health of your business is predicated on strong-arming your way against market pricing of labor, then perhaps something is wrong with your business.

Of course, the title is a bit misleading.

More like: How Walmart colludes with the surveillance state to suppress labor activities against it.

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