Dear Editor:
Union hack Ron Lind’s letter praising Kristine Dillon’s naive
letter and condemning Wal-Mart continues to recycle the same old
tried and failed rhetoric.
Dear Editor:
Union hack Ron Lind’s letter praising Kristine Dillon’s naive letter and condemning Wal-Mart continues to recycle the same old tried and failed rhetoric. However, if you continue to tell the lie often enough and loud enough, some people will believe it. Mr. Lind, along with all the other paid organizers and puppets of the UFCW, don’t miss a beat as they tell lie after lie about Wal-Mart, citing the rantings of former disgruntled employees who are now happily employed by union shop, Safeway.
From fronting as Gilroy First! to buying Paul Correa’s seat on the City Council, the unions will stop at nothing until they can legally pick-pocket Wal-Mart and any other business they can. When I spoke before the Gilroy Planning Commission last spring to support the new shopping centers in the U.S. 101/Highway 152 corridor, several union operatives cursed at me as I left the council chambers. The same thing happened outside City Hall when I showed up to support Wal-Mart at a union rally where a teamster got in my face in a weak attempt to intimidate me. By the way, where is Jimmy Hoffa? The UFCW’s sister union is even using a sudden born-again environmental stance to coerce Glen Loma Developers into signing an untenable agreement to hire only union labor. Threats, coercion, lies and intimidation are the realm of labor unions, not Wal-Mart.
I have personally talked to approximately 25 employees of Gilroy Wal-Mart (some contacted me) in the last year while on my personal crusade to expose the UFCW as the devious, deceitful and manipulative outfit it is. All of the employees I spoke to say they liked their jobs and that is supported by numerous letters from current employees of Wal-Mart published in The Dispatch.
The statement that Wal-Mart has regularly threatened employees for organizing is a flat out lie. Wal-Mart is forbidden, by federal law, from doing such things. In fact, last spring, the UFCW brought in two busloads of union parrots to the front of Gilroy’s Wal-Mart to hold a rally, literally on the front steps of the store. I complained to the store manager saying I had been harassed for shopping at the store. The manager informed me, and I later verified that U.S. Labor Department Regulations permit such rallies and the law forbade him to intervene. What is wrong with this picture?
If you want to see the destruction unions can cause, you need only look to southern California, where the UFCW has been striking many grocery stores including Safeway for the last six months. Customers like you and I, are being held hostage by the extortive labor unions.
To Mr. Lind and all the folks at the UFCW and The South Bay Labor Council, many of us in Gilroy, with the exception of a few university women, environmental wacko’s and of course, loose-lipped Dispatch columnist Dennis Taylor, are looking forward to our new Super Wal-Mart, as are the current and future employees of Wal-Mart.
Furthermore, if we never heard from the liars from the north again, it would be too soon.
Mark Zappa, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Jan. 13 to ed****@****ic.com
