Did anyone really believe that union thugs would be successful calling a strike against Wal-Mart? What a hoot!

cake decorator?

"and just what ARE those sprinkles you´re putting on that birthday cake?"

Voluntary separation, she will be in eligible for unemployment until she asks for a hearing and the doggone judge will develop a quirk in the law to pay her....

"But even Ferreira acknowledges that the other Walmart employees say she doesn’t speak for them, and are annoyed by her theatrics."

I bet most people at Walmart don´t make $12 an hour like Ferreira so it´s not a wonder they are annoyed with her.

New slogan: "Worker of the world unite!"

Mr. President, we had to cancel this year´s the democrat party American Patriot parade.

Why is that, Valerie?

Mr. President, one is sick and the other refuses to march alone.

How can she go on strike when there is no employees union in Walmart? Maybe a walkout?

I guess her Norma Rae moment fell flat.

I had not read the article before I posted above. If she believes her wages are too low, perhaps she should be looking for a higher paying job elsewhere.

Maybe the SEIU will hire her as an organizer.

If she thinks she´s underpaid now, just wait until the Obamacare mandates kick in and Walmart cuts her down to 28 hours a week.

Who in their right mind would ever buy another cake from this walmart? I can only imagine what someone like her would put in it.

Well, I guess she really showed WalMart! The corporate execs must be quaking in their boots. Now, what will she do? Watch TV all day? Maybe she can become a SEIU operative.

Well good. She´s now free to find one of those "higher wage jobs" her union bosses tantalize her with. My guess is she´ll have striker´s remorse in 10, 9, 8,...

All that rah rah rah from the union and she walks out alone. Let them pay her $12 an hour in a state full of mimimum wage service jobs. Someone probably asked for her job before she hit the parking lot.

Florida is a right to work state...so, she walks out, on strike, so......what??

Do these brain trust union members think about how much they´d need to earn if they didn´t have to hand a fair amount of it to their union?

A young female relative who is a sheriff´s deputy in a California county is totally disgusted by what she has to pay to the union every month. "They do absolutely nothing for us. Nothing."

My 19 year old son works at the local Walmart as he goes to college, he makes $8.30 in the deli with good hours. He volunteered to work today from 4pm to 1am because he gets time and 1/2 and an additional10% off his already 10 % employee discount on appreciation days. This is off everything in the store except ammo (bummer!), that´s a huge savings! On top of this, the store had a meal catered for the employees in the employee lounge. Is it a perfect job? No, but it´s a low skilled job it´s not supposed to be perfect! My son is grateful to have it because 30% of his peers can´t find employment. He thinks those complainers need to suck it up and shut up.

Another stupid lefty who thinks that being a cake decorator at Walmart is a career. No, it is NOT supposed to be a career. Why didn´t she use her learned skills and experience to find another job or to try to move up in the organization? That´s the problem with these fools...they don´t realize that those jobs are not supposed to be lifelong careers!! Not knowing enough about her performance, I can´t say if she deserved a better wage or not. But there is a good chance that she didn´t put in that extra effort to get noticed and maybe a better wage. At any rate, until people realize that they can better their lives by working a little harder and making the necessary sacrifices, they will always be stuck in dead end jobs and whine for more. The unions take advantage of their ignorance and laziness.

Most likely in the union that brought down Hostess.

Darwin must be spinning in his grave right now over this woman and the Hostess union.

"I thought they´d be further evolved by now."

She can always go to work at the hostess plant. Wait.....

She´ll be fine. She´ll go to the Social Security office next week and claim her back is shot from standing up all those long 8 years decorating all those cakes and Obama´s minions will sign her up for disability pay quick as a wink.

She could have applied to work for those unions in Hostess. Oh wait, the unions closed Hostess down. Heh, heh.

"WHO´S WITH ME??!?!?!?"

Did she pick up her free phone on the way out????

Art

#17, hooray for your son! I don´t see him as one of those kids sitting around sucking his thumb and complaining about not being able to find a job after he gets out of school. And this woman Ferreira? As others have hinted, she should never be allowed around anybody´s food supply again. Maybe she can find a Twinkie baker to sit on a park bench and commiserate with.

Its all about groceries. Sears, Kmart, JCPenny and Target are don´t have unionized workers either and the wages (I bet) is the same as Walmart. They only picket Walmart because only Walmart sells enough groceries to threaten the food union´s workers and thats wehre unions are still pretty influential.

Good point, #16.

These cranky union dimwits never stop to think how much more they´d be taking home were it not for the very unions they belong to.

Wal-Mark employs a lot of senior citizens .... folks who need to suppliment their income. Did the gimme-gimme union worker expect them to walk away from one of the few places willing to hire persons 70+ years old?

With all the talk about greed on Wall Street, few ever discuss the details of unionized employees´ demands and how much of their paycheck goes to the union bosses.

You would think that since walmart gave ALL its political donations ONLY to the dems, they would be loved. Guess not. Take note christie.

Finally - competition for the California Walnut...

Americans just aren´t as pro union as they once were in this country. That and Walmart employees trying this ´me too´ stunt on the heels of the Hostess debacle and a very tight economy for jobs and any smart person could see why a walkout would be PR epic failure.

#30, feel free to share a link that offers evidence of your assertion that Wal-Mart went All-in on Democrats.

Keep walking Vanessa

Why doesn´t Ms. Vanessa take her skills and open her own little bakery? Something unique. Then, if she becomes successful, and MAKES A LOT OF MONEY, she´ll need help and can hire a few employees to help her MAKE MORE MONEY.

And then SHE can deal with the unions and their wages and demands, and the taxes, and the benefits, and the MANDATED OBAMACARE, and OSHA, and ......

If she´s that good.....

#29 "...Wal-Mark employs a lot of senior citizens .... folks who need to suppliment their income…."

Exactly right. They (Walmart) give older people a sense of doing something and a way to earn money that´s no doubt desperately needed. It´s certainly not an essential job for Walmart. After all, how many businesses have ´door greeters?´ Walmart management should be commended for this.
Walmart also provides employment for dozens of local people in their stores as well as providing a local source for products that otherwise would be purchased out of town. Walmart haters should find another hobby.

"An Army of One"

Actually, #11, the cakes at this Walmart just got a little better! For those who might not know, St. Cloud sits next to the pipeline (Florida Turnpike) that is bringing South Florida to Central Florida. Most are extremely unfriendly, vile and anti-American. (I speak to them every day, just in case someone wants to jump to their defense.)

#1 - yes. Unions will overrun Wal-Mart like a plague of hive rats.

It will happen during the next four years.

Watching FoxNews 85 a.m. my time. Showing protesters who were bused in (big surprise). Tried to interview one, who refused to answer (big surprise) and told James Rosen, "Talk to the people in the green shirt". So he tried to talk to a goofy acting green-shirted fellow who (big surprise) also refused to answer. What a surprising morning!

I wonder how many of the "protesters" actually work for WalMart.

The Walmart near us has both handicapped and seniors working as greeters. In the four years I´ve been going there, the same people have greeted me with a smile. I never see the handicap or the age anymore. Just nice people.

Wages are too low? Why doesn´t Vanessa quit Walmart altogether get herself a high-paying job in her chosen profession (cake decorator) at some boutique bakery run by kindly radical leftists?

I have explained to employees many times that if they want job security and the potential for pay increases all they have to do is do their job so well that I am convinced that I need them.

Married life ain´t hard when you got a union card,
A union man has a happy life when he´s got a union wife.

Just think, according to Woody, in Saint Cloud is a really lucky guy!

Maybe she should have consulted with the Twinkie workers before flying off the handle.

"She´ll be fine. She´ll go to the Social Security office next week and claim her back is shot..."

Spoken like someone who´se never had to fight their way through a disability claim...

Go ask Obama for one of the millions of green jopssss./s

I´ll betcha she´s frosted!

Union leaders are exactly like politicians- they are on the same team. Once they figured out they could leverage their position of power, it became more about their power position and access to money and political power, than their members.

Union members, through force or stupidity, are the sheep that make the leaders and their chosen politicians rich and more powerful.

yes No.10, our big health care hospital bought immiaging centers they closed some and they put the rest of the workers on part time , agreat result of Omamacare.

#47, getting disability for an actual disability is very difficult. You have to have friends, and an addiction of some kind to succeed without really trying.

CNBC has been trying to use the "story" of the "protest" all day long..
they finally found a real WMT employee from SOMEWHERE that supported the "strike"..
the commies had to bus THEIR members in to make it look like a WMT strike..

To answer the question in the Must Reads link, Target doesn´t get targeted because they are owned by Dayton-Hudson. Dayton? The Dayton family? Uber-leftist Democrats from ... Minnesota, I think. Look up Mark Dayton and check out his political career.

Yeah, they have a force field around them against this junk.

The solitary nature of her ´strike´ exemplifies how unionization doesn´t always represent all the workers -- because many of them would choose to keep working, rather than strike.

The complete ineffectiveness of her ´strike´ exemplifies the value of unionization, in places where a company routinely abuses workers. Individually, they lack the kind of leverage needed to motivate change.

A healthy market depends on a sustainable balance between labor, management, consumer, and government. Whenever any one of those gets out of whack, the whole suffers. Big business has a history of abusing workers. Big labor has a history of abusing management (and workers, too). Big government has a way of destroying the whole market. And monopolies have a history of abusing consumers.

Unions are for mamas´ babies who can´t get a real job!!

According to Open Secrets Org., Walmart donations are predominantly Republican.

The NLRB protects those who engage in "protected concerted activity." Acting in concert requires 2 or more employees, so a single person walk out doesn´t fit the law, and she is outside its protection. Obama´s NLRB will bend over backwards to protect her, but if it followed the law as written she´s out of luck.

@54, thanks, I knew that but not too many others do. And the reason Kohl´s is never boycotted or targeted is because the owner is Herb Kohl, big-time lib democrat senator from Wisconsin.

I wish there was no such thing as the unions. I worked in three places that was moved or closed down because of the unions. All it did was make sure those people did not have a job anymore. I think that is what they are good for -certaintly not to make sure people have jobs. The big leaders just want the money out of the people - calling it "dues".

An observation about Walmart, one of my favorite places to shop: Many people working there have an opportunity to excel that they wouldn´t have experienced in most retail settings. There doesn´t seem to be age discrimination. They hire the handicapped.