The political battle to unionize Wal-Mart

WakeUpWalMart and Wal-Mart Watch are two union-backed groups intent on unionizing the retail giant. Now they are getting help from the Democrats.

The Democratic Party, flushed with their recent election success, are joining union activists in the battle against Wal-Mart.

Senator Obama and another potential Democratic 2008 presidential contender, a former North Carolina senator, John Edwards, will speak to activists from one of Wal-Mart’s most vociferous union-backed critics today as debate over the world's largest retailer becomes increasingly political.

Unions helped make the Democrat wins possible and now they want their just rewards.

It will be a sad day for America if organized labor successfully unionizes Wal-Mart stores. Anyone thinking otherwise should look at what labor unions did to the American auto industry.

American cars are generally inferior to foreign cars in price and quality.

Top-heavy union contracts keep the cost of American cars too high.

Union autoworker’s jobs are protected whether they are efficient workers or not. This affects the quality of the cars they build.

Link here to the Edwards and Obama pro-union involvement.

Link here to the union “we helped make it happen” story.