The Associated Press
noted in its coverage of
The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer’s visit to a Mountain View, CA
Walmart, that he triggered a backlash from labor unions and pay equity
advocates who say low wages paid by Walmart “fly in the face of Obama’s vaunted
push to pay equity.”
TWMDCO enraged labor unions by
congratulating their arch-enemy Wal-Mart for making a big commitment to solar
panels.
John Hayward, opining at Human
Events notes, “Wally World holds the same talismanic significance for
unions that the Keystone XL pipeline holds for radical environmentalists.”
"The president's visit sends
a terrible message to workers across America," Joe Hansen, president of
the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has battled Walmart for
years, said in a statement. "He is lending credibility to a bad actor when
he should be joining the calls for Walmart to change."
The progressive online advocacy
group CREDO declared the visit "outrageous" and called on
the White House to scrap it. Pam Ramos, a Walmart worker employed at the very
store Obama is visiting, wrote an op-ed in Salon asking the president
to "tell Walmart to pay us enough to cover the bills."
In a Facebook post, Robert Reich,
the former labor secretary under Bill Clinton, wondered,
"What numbskull in the White House arranged this?"
Anyone else find it ironic Obama is appearing at Walmart when Solyndra is right across the Bay AND how the left hates Walmart? @seanhannity
— Big Bertha (@MistralWinds) May 9, 2014
UPDATE: Thank you, Cardigan of iOwnTheWorld,
for linking to this post.
UPDATE II: Thanks to Admiral Teach at The
Pirate’s Cove for linking to this post.
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