Another in a Long List of Reasons to Hate Wal-Mart

We already have a long laundry list of reasons to hate Wal-Mart, from killing "mom and pop" stores, to using Mafia-like "persuasion" to get a better deal than anyone else, to treating their employees like serfs, to enforcing it's own morality on America through its censorship of products. I hate the bastards; they are nothing but corporate thugs and need to be dealt with accordingly.

I internally cringe every time I have to step inside one of these despicable stores (usually I am taking my parents to get something and it is the closest store to their house). I hate this company with a passion. Now I have another reason to do so.

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is mobilizing U.S. store managers to lobby against Democrats in November's presidential election, fearing they will make it easier for workers to unionize, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside for workers if store workers unionize, the paper said.

About a dozen employees who attended meetings in seven states said executives stressed employees would have to pay hefty union dues and get nothing in return, and might have to go on strike without compensation, and warned that unionization could force the company to cut jobs as labor costs rise, the Journal reported.

The Wal-Mart human-resources managers who have run the meetings didn't tell those attending how to vote in the November elections, but made it clear that voting for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, would be tantamount to inviting unions in, the Journals said.

Wal-Mart could not be reached immediately for a comment.

If I never step into another Wal-Mart it will be too soon.