tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post5798394887643071464..comments2024-03-28T09:13:04.373-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: A Good Reason to Boycott Circuit CityShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-40596584035655937872007-04-05T11:18:00.000-04:002007-04-05T11:18:00.000-04:00Check out the biting satire of Circuit City at:htt...Check out the biting satire of Circuit City at:<BR/><BR/>http://cantankerousconsultant.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-on-circuit-city.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-34332890880103191982007-04-02T17:26:00.000-04:002007-04-02T17:26:00.000-04:00Boycotting CC only hurts the 40,000 still employed...Boycotting CC only hurts the 40,000 still employed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-38859551606549562602007-04-01T23:25:00.000-04:002007-04-01T23:25:00.000-04:00Ive always liked CC for its knowledgable staff. Iv...Ive always liked CC for its knowledgable staff. Ive bought several items there over the years and Ive always gotten good info and advice from the workers. Sure I could save a little money if I go to Wally World, but if you ask a question you get a blank stare and an "Uhhh.... let me ask my manager." <BR/>If CC is going to be staffed with minimum wage earners who have no incentive to do better, there really is no reason to visit CC anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-3895554184948381332007-03-30T09:42:00.000-04:002007-03-30T09:42:00.000-04:00No doubt there is hardship in organizing workers. ...No doubt there is hardship in organizing workers. If it were easy . . . But, with employers like this, there is more hardship for more workers when they are not organized. <BR/><BR/>As you probalby know, it would be illegal to punish workers for trying to organize a union. It is done anyway, but, eventually, Circuit City will get slammed by the NLRB for that kind of conduct.<BR/><BR/>This is where a good union will step up and start sending unionizers into CC and start flooding CC with applications from union members. When their applicants are not hired, the union can then file complaints with the NLRB.<BR/><BR/>From there they should be able to negotiate a union drive, or force it through litigation. That way, they protect the current workers.<BR/><BR/>The problem is that the unions are not what they used to be and so many of them are run by self-interested goons. In many cases they do little to protect the minimum wage worker -- not enough of a margin in that.A Big Fat Slobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643815117960627121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-22961001812951282752007-03-30T07:55:00.000-04:002007-03-30T07:55:00.000-04:00Good idea, except that everyone caught unionizing ...Good idea, except that everyone caught unionizing would then get fired.Shaun Mullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-66100695097689096352007-03-30T07:28:00.000-04:002007-03-30T07:28:00.000-04:00The article speculates that Circuit City's move is...The article speculates that Circuit City's move is shortsighted because it fails to take inot account employee morale. That's bull. The employee morale is dictated by the paycheck in retail factories like that.<BR/><BR/>Where the Circuit City move is REALLY shortsighted is that ham-handed layoffs like this are precisely what cause the employees to unionize.<BR/><BR/>And isn't that really the answer -- better than boycotts (which, if effective, cost more low-wage workers their jobs). Better than boycotting, everyone should go to their local Circuit City and hand out links to union web sites and NLRB wbe sites on how organizaning workers are protected.A Big Fat Slobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643815117960627121noreply@blogger.com