K-mart Anti Union Video
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Produced by K-mart in an effort to undermine the Teamster union organizing led by warehouse workers at the company's Newnan GA facility. The video is full of misinformation and lies about unions. A copy was mailed to all workers in the bargaining unit days prior to their NLRB election.
Smile and wave at the camera or else YOU'RE FIRED!!!
If Kmart would have spent some money and upgraded their system they would have made it
damn Benson
They fought so hard against unions and they still filed for bankruptcy and closed almost all of their stores.
Yup, but guarantee if they did unionize the downfall of kmart would have been blamed on the union
Yup
@@Malignantt1 It probably still was by some, lol.
That opening song made me want to unionize.
I have to admit I am impressed that they produced an entire original song specifically for this video. (though listening to the lyrics I have to wonder if its some sort of elaborate in joke).
Amazon makes employees watch similar shit today.
Do it. You need a union.
Good to see them shut the f down
@@jl-dc6dt K-Mart or unions?
When a big company goes through the immense hassle of making a video like this, you know they have A LOT to loose.
I don't trust the company suits, or the unions!
Yes, the obvious question is if this were remotely accurate, shouldn't they have welcomed the opportunity to negotiate with the union for those supposedly less generous terms?
Don’t trust the unions either. They will do nothing for you and take their union dues
Wow, kmart has "great benefits and pay"! So they have nothing more to give employees if unions contact them. They shouldn't be scared.
Cut to today and all the things they're saying teamsters are guilty of doing, nearly all big corporations are guilty of doing the same thing. Hypocritical?
@Stephen Anthony sounds like a big old crock of bullshit to me
Uhhh, can't stop listening to that song. IT'S TOO GOOD. GET'S ME WET.
Kmart was a horrible place to work,the pay was a pittance and the management were morons. I recently watched the store I used to work at get leveled and it was great.Goor riddance to a terrible company that took advantage of its employees for far too mnay years.
I know from experience the DC and stores operate very differently. Used to work at toys r us dc.
"the pay was a pittance and the management were morons" that describes basically all retail stores.
Same for Sears!!!!!! Horrible workplace!!@
i loved kmart. i have memories of buying legos as a kid in their stores
Say what you want about unions,
But the fact that multi billion dollar companies are so fiercely against them has gotta mean something
Yes. Well put.
We got shit like this in the 1990s at Borders. The CEO lectured us on video with such anger he seemed unhinged.
These videos may seem biased but they are 100% true, being in a Union hurts your chances for Promotion, better wages going forward, open door status, ie you and your supervisor discussing things face to face, and so on.
I wonder if that video could be found.
Everyone is out of work now. Good job
Kmart song sounds like a freaking cult. Did they have to sing this song everyday or else they would be killed??
Yes.
Walmart does this too
@@germangamingvideos6069 I can confirm that. Worked at one for a month. It was cultish and I would stare off while they were doing it.
Kmart abandoned the facility in Dec of 2015 they just got a new tenant in the warehouse in dec 2017. I assume that facility originally unionized since it went so far as to have a vote. The video appears to be 1995 ish. Also when you look at these union vidoes whether they be lowes,walmart, or kmart they have the same actors in it. I assume its a anti union consulting firm.
A very expensive firm.
In the target store video, the actors were actually unionized...
Brian Smith This is most likely some time in the mid 1980s. You gotta love that cheesy ‘80s music.
Based on the years referenced in the video, this would have been from 1994.
As a former Kmart employee, I tried to keep out of the union fight. As a dept mgr,I was looked up to by a dozen employees. I do not want to say go and say no and I do not want to say yes. What this video did not tell you is that Kmart Always was below national standard in pay and benefits. Georgia is a right to work state. Meaning all employees are employees at will. They could be fired at any time.
I was in a store in the north .a big difference. Stores had a turn over of over 25% ,this was common knowlage even know the management denied this. Here is what they are not talking you. Forced overtime, forced holiday work, forced benefits pay increases. Most of the shit in this video is in the south. Very different in the north.
To bad the under funding is from company's that went bankrupt to get out of contracts. I am not sticking up for the teamsters.they are thug. But this is about union busting. Plain and simple. SS least a did not believe in unions. This was a long time ago for me. But look at what happen to kmart.i left karmt when a Wal-Mart tried to hire me away at a much higher wage. I went to HR and asked for a raise based on Wal-Mart's offer. I was threatened to be fired if I ever brought up the subject. I quit 1week befor Xmas 1989and never worked in a retail store like Kmart,Wal-Mart,etc.
Needless to say Kmart was kissed when I walked out right before xmas.but I had to think of myself as Kmart did not give a shit. What was once a good career(retail) is now minimum wage even with 20 years plus experience. To bad this country is now a joke on decent jobs
Dang. What a great first hand account of that time and place. I was fascinated by your story. Thanks for sharing.
Did the associates really make 13.65 a hour like the video said. I cant see it.
Nah they actually just want you to be qualified in something or go to school for a decent job :) sorry putting items on shelves and managing part time high schoolers didn’t give ya the big bucks you were hoping
The facts are that you could work at Kmart 40 hours a week and not make enough to survive which is a common thing with Big Business today (the only thing with Kmart as it is basically dead with only 400 stores left).
@Jason Exactly! Pisses me off whenever people say that. “Right to work” is short for “right to work without having to join a union.” You’d think a supposed “manager” would know that distinction, but this story is either fake or they’re terribly uneducated.
Yeah, who would want a pension, insurance, fair pay, safe work practices, respect? Who would want to buy stuff like a car, house, or you know food?
Pensions are the worst scam put on people. You have to depend on a company or government for your retirement if they go belly up your screwed
having worked in the steel workers union, id say the separation of worker and management is huge, lots of back stabbing and no communication. pay and benefits were great, easiest job ive ever had, and the laziest people ive ever seen.
1:07 Stan Lee's career might really be hurting
I remember when the Kmart by me closed somewhere between '09 and '12. They kept that hell hole open until it was literally ONE SINGLE isle in the ENTIRE store, even the last standing register looked like they sold parts off of it. It has sat vacant since. Blue light special say whaaaa? 😂
Imagine the feeling of having to sit in a meeting in a dimly-lit room with your coworkers and having to watch this cringe fest.
I wouldn't be able to do it without calling bullshit.
The thing about Business is it's very goal is to eliminate Unions and create as much profit for themselves as possible so it is not surprising Kmart tried this very same thing (especially when this was when the CEO was buying his yacht with Kmart money and Kmart was buying a ton of Companies).
One question, though, did the guy singing for the video win an Grammy for his singing talent?
And remind me why Sears/Kmart is failing since 2010, same boat that the grocery chain Safeway/Albertsons botched deal. walmart ain't to far behind either.
I know your comment is 2 years old, but a lot of things happened since. It's already December 21st 2020, would your views still hold about Walmart?
@@Menaceblue3 Mine do, im short walmart 10,000 shares, entered the position 1/21/22
I'd pay for a K Mart Mixtape. Shit was fire.
The Anti Union stuff, not so much.
“These Dreams” Heart
“Broken Wings” Mr Mister
Unions are only in it for themselves, businesses want you to actually do your job.
Ill be the first to admit that Unions can't do much nowadays, and their members have voted away any future members' benefits, but, Anytime a company calls you an "associate", or "valued team member", tape your ass cheeks together immediately!
Home Depot calls their workers "associates" but Lowe's calls them "employees." They're both terrible to work for though.
So Kmart is saying employees wages will go down, they'll have fewer paid holidays, less paid leave time. So why would Kmart discourage something that would only help Kmart's bottom line? Hmmmm
Because Kmart was lying about all of that.
So they could get people to work for them?
The secret ballet but ... if we find out you vote union you're FIRED!!
In what country is that possibly legal?!
@@Landie_Man most States are a right to work which means they can pretty much fire you for anything as long as it's not discriminating against your race,age, sex, religion or sexual orientation.
AmericanNinja85 sounds like some sort of bullshit to me mate, what a place to have to live in.
@@AmericanNinja85 Actually you are confusing it with “At Will” employment. At will means you can leave your job for any reason and can be let go without a reason,as long as it’s not for age,color,sexual orientation etc....
Right to work is when you have the right to work without being forced to join a union.
The more you know 😀😀
As of this post (7/12/20), Kmart is still holding on at only 44 locations, way WAY down from their peak in 1994 of nearly 2,500 stores. They're currently owned by an outfit called Transformco, based out of Illinois... which is in turn owned by a company owned by the guy that put Kmart in the spot they're currently in.
I don't think there'll be a comeback for them, but stranger things have happened...
Ed Lampert.... Chuck Conaway.... Remember their names when someone talks about Kmart's demise, these names are synonymous with corruption, crookedness, and downright horrible activities.
I remember the first time I heard this song on MTV... it was on fire! So underrated, it never got the record sales it deserved.
So happy i live and work in a Sweden. My company and country has a great expedience of unions
Amen
And now Kmart is dying. I would like to know if what the company is saying on wages is true or fiction.
And then Kmart almost killed themselves with the bankruptcy in January 2002.
well they're killing themselves now so not much has changed
I believe the Bankruptcy in 2002 saved the company-- if there's anything killing them, it's the continued poor management at the top (Fast Eddie) that's shooting them in the foot.
Would love to see interviews with these workers along with the forest park union ones. I'll bet the ones that use the 401k are better off then the pension. I'll bet the ones with 19 years in before it closed and lost all retirement would agree with this now..lol
I remember cutting up the dance floor to this at the clubs!
I can now see why K-Mart is one of the most successful and respectful companies in America.
they're bankrupt
I don't give a fuck about "upholding our brand's reputation for high quality service", we work to get paid, and unions help us to secure that paycheque.
work at teamsters local 50 union I watch these videos and smile.
k-mart, 'making a living' and 'job security' , riiight
10:00 The same thing happened in Australia.
Prior to retail workplace agreements, the award rates went up at a steady rate. After retail workplace agreements were introduced, the unions weren't pushing to have the state and federal award wages to increase, because they were busy negotiating separate workplace agreements.
Union workers told retail workers they were being paid much higher than the state and federal awards. While that is technically true, it was only due to the reduction in state and federal award wages increases, compared to pre-workplace agreement years.
About four or five years after workplace agreements were introduced, comparing the average inflation rate, staff of one supermarket were actually being paid approximately 30% less than they were being paid under the original award wages, prior to the introduction of workplace agreements.
This always gets me, when companies complain about paying a part of your paycheck to unions... And?? The few bucks a week you pay is nothing. The fact is, you get paid worlds above what a non-union worker gets paid. These kinds of videos are pure propaganda. Companies often say unions are greedy. Maybe they ought to look in a mirror. CEOs pay usually average multiple hundred times workers' pay. A Union presence doesn't change this. It simply means more money for the workers on the production floor. Boo hoo, boo hoo. Maybe this means the manager can't buy that 3rd yacht. Tough shit.
Jacob Tranmer this true with seiu
Get paid worlds above??? I make more now that I left a stupid ass skeamsters job and it’s actually worlds more about a third more. FACTS union ain’t needed in this day and age we got labor laws and shit now fuck skeamsters
That manager deserves that third yacht more than you deserve a raise. Fuck unions. Btw I’m a manager.
The lies and length these corporations will go to stop their employees from unionizing is unbelievable.
Man, they just don't make music like they used to anymore.
kind of a catchy tune, "Kmart Noonan, Kmart Noonan, a really good place to be.....", I like it....they should put an album, and concert tour to back it up...I'd go for sure and get front-row seats!!!
Note to Businesses: If you don't want the union, then treat your employees right and you won't have to produce these anti-union "Training" films.
Kmart paid 3 dollars more than the average retail wage bud
The company is basically telling its employees if you unionize, we intend on paying you less money. Sounds like a threat doesn't it.
Dude at 0:31 is having none of this shit.
Isn't the Teamsters controlled by a group called La Cosa Nostra, a.k.a. "the mob"? La Cosa Nostra has long been well-known as a worker and human rights champion, lol!
Ok so did they ultimately vote to unionize or not??
Since then, as Glenn Beck would say, Kmart “went from SUPER POWER to out of power.” 🔦
I miss kmart and Woolworths
Woolworths still exists in Mexico
Years later, Kmart blamed the godawful music on the writer's strike.
well you know, sometimes unions are actually bad. my twitch chat tried to form a union and rise up against me (the streamer). luckily i am currently making them watch this video so i think i've held them off for a few more stream
Gee, no wonder there are only three k-Marts left in the US.
The coming conversion to an all AI/robotic work force will make the entire working class obsolete.
What did they do to make sure the employees actually watched the video and did not just throw it away?
MTLTV1765 probably made them watch it while on the clock.
Rifftrax should cover this.
That's maybe the worst song I've ever heard, and that includes Friday and Baby Shark.
Hey, this song beats Friday and Baby Shark.....at least the music video works....
america works best when we say union NO!!!!!
kmart was only ever good for their in-store muzak playlists, and that was after they went on their knees in 2008 lol
In all likelihood the cost to produce this video cost more than the pay increases requested by the union.
You could have just paid the people a decent wage.
At least this video looks professionally done. The AMAZON Anti Union cartoon is very silly looking with cheesy dialogue. .
What was the result?
Force to work, smile at the camera and then Force to watch it and vote. I remember the day I was nervous you see me at 0:57 i was young and hot looking
Did they unionize?
I find it ironic. Now that you've basically help chase out factory work, your now going after retail, and obviously failed at that so you'll just hit up Mcdonalds fry cooks with this nonsense. Look, I am not opposed to unions as a whole, but I am not opposed to companies refusing to go along with this stuff too. It's called freedom and a free market enterprise. Besides the only thing being in a union had cost me was money and jobs, and I am glad we finally have a right to work law here in my state. Not had a problem negotiating my own pay since and I make more then my last union job. Just saying.
You have way less power than you think you do, and you can be fired for just about any reason, no matter how ridiculous. If you bothered to look beyond your own experience, you'd see how much less workers make in Right to Work states and in non-organized industries, and when you adjust for inflation wages, benefits, and even reasonable scheduling have slid terribly as unions have been pushed out. Countries like Canada and Germany got through the recession much better than we did despite heavy unionization, and VW wanted their Tennessee workers to go union because it works well in Germany. Even non-union shops pay more if the industry they are in has some union representation. There's a difference between companies not wanting unions in and their strong arming employees. Federal law heavily favors companies over unions. Belonging to a union is in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundation for modern human rights standards. And free markets are only freedom for those who profit. Those companies don't give a shit about you. Just sayin'.
Uh huh. You know the best way to solve this?? GO WORK FOR YOURSELF!!!!! That's right. take on the risks, start a business and if that business flourishes... problem solved. But I don't just speak for me here. Nothing hurts worse then getting laid off or fired. I get it. But, that's your job to make yourself so useful they can't or you start your own. That's what I did. Let's just say I've bothered to look beyond my own experiences, and now I help others with my methods. I own that experience now and I like being able to hire and fire how I see fit and while of course I have my standards. If your lazy, you don't need to be and that's not my fault. I also like being able to promote good people. It's called freedom last I checked. I started off sweeping the floors of a factory, if I can do it anyone can. It's just too easy to make excuses and stay in that box. You know?
Unions in General
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Pear CD, unions may not always support their workers, but at the same time they often do give workers more bargaining power. Unionized teachers at my previous high school(before I went to university) were payed way more, had health insurance, and job security that teachers at the non-unionized school did.
The "Free Market" Argument
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Beyond that your "free market" argument is a poor argument.....places where I worked in the "free market" forced workers to work off the clock without pay, else we would be fired. We were payed minimum wage and had to look the other way while the manager gave away company product to their friends and family members.......and when I got hired at a Union shop the stewards kept that kind of shit from happening. At least at a union shop you have an advocate.
Companies get away with making people work off the clock because there are no witnesses. The law is in their favor because they use legal bribery called "lobbying". Want an unfair edge in the "free market"? buy a politician, its that easy!
Worker's Rights Without Advocacy
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Imagine you are working for a company with exploitative business practices, that has a strong advantage, with no witnesses or representation, and in the game of the free market, you the individual worker are alone, and there are a thousand replacements for you that will work cheaper, faster, and harder: illegal immigrants that don't have the same rent and taxes to pay, companies that can outsource your work, and students that live with parents that don't pay rent that will take less pay, will work off the clock for free, and will put up with what no working person with rent ever could.
Pear CD Post Appears Manipulative: Contradictory
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If a guy doesn't care about their worker's rights, not being forced to work off the clock, and does not want an advocate and witness then that's fine....but I don't think you are a worker, I think you are an owner or hired by an owner as a union-buster, or just not very well travelled.
Your own text contradicts itself, in a manipulative fashion:
* "I find it ironic. Now that you've basically help chase out factory work, your now going after retail, and obviously failed at that so you'll just hit up Mcdonalds fry cooks with this nonsense"
* yet you say: "Look, I am not opposed to unions as a whole, "
* and the rest of your post goes on bashing unions as a whole, not mentioning one positive about them: " but I am not opposed to companies refusing to go along with this stuff too. It's called freedom and a free market enterprise. Besides the only thing being in a union had cost me was money and jobs, and I am glad we finally have a right to work law here in my state."
* lastly the most laughable part is the negotiation part of it, which is funny because most average workers and fry cooks get minimum wage or less(working off the clock lowers your average wage below minimum) and they cannot bargain: "Not had a problem negotiating my own pay"
"Bargaining" for Your Own Pay as an Individual
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Here is what it would look like at my non-union job:
employee: "I would like at least 8.00 an hour rather than bare minimum because I am always on time and am a hard worker, and I run several tasks that are normally done by separate people."
boss: "I will take that into consideration but our company pays 7.25"
employee: "If I do not get a raise I will not be able to afford my rent and I will have to find employment elsewhere"
boss: "sorry that you didn't work out here" *boss places out a now hiring sign and promptly gets some desperate people that do not have rent to pay
Response to "GO WORK FOR YOURSELF!!!!"
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I am sorry but that is about the most unrealistic and asinine argument I have ever heard. Most normal workers simply do not have the capital, favorable economic area, or the ability to navigate the legal system to establish a business when they are paying rent, medical bills, interest bearing loans, and other costs. Furthermore established businesses can buy in bulk, you can't, established businesses don't pay rent and have lower overhead and bulk equipment, you can't, large established businesses can to a large extent slaughter smaller business in price wars and buy property more easily, your can't.
Overall Rating of Post
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Self contradictory
Poor arguments
Manipulative or Very Poorly Informed
Post Appears to have no concept of reality
Second Post implies that people who want fair pay as being lazy
@@PearComputingDevices "go work for yourself" that is not possible for the majority of people and for those living paycheck to paycheck it is practically impossible.
Unions are good for collective bargaining power. If there is an excess supply of workers in your field you have little to no chance of having the bargaining power to increase your wage and other benefits if you go it solo.
If the supply of workers was less than the demand then we would never need unions. But that only occurs in some fields
MrEroticWalrus That's a self defeating attitude. I done it. Granted I started out small, and had to work my way around some big fish. It didn't cost me much either. If your living from pay check to pay check, that's not a companies problem. That's yours. If your living like that, why would you keep living that way? I'll never understand that. If your that bad off, why should a boss pay you more for no more skills? Find what your good at, harness that talent and use it to make more money. Problem solved. The only person holding you back isn't some company not paying you enough, it's yourself. I got a buddy, dumb as a brick, drinks like a fish. But he can paint bricks like nobody I have ever known. He's not punching a clock waiting on a paycheck. He''s making bank. If that guy can do it, I am sure you can find something more profitable then stocking shelves at some Kmart.
Eddie Lampbert came instead to doom the company.
Kmart is so bad that unions can’t help them.
What was the result of the vote?
While the concept of a union seems ok. It can have devastating impacts. A good example is Hostess. While yes the teamsters did actually agree to pay cuts to save the company, the bakers union wouldn't budge. So what happened? Chapter 11, now instead of making less they make zero.
If your job sucks get another one, retail, fast food, etc is supposed to be entry level jobs. Climb up the ladder or get a better skill set if you want to be better off. Put the effort in and you'll reap the rewards.
I'm ready for the flame fest, if you disagree then debate my point :)
K Mart is now out of business. (2022).....
Now Kmart is dead and will soon no longer exist in any shape form or fashion. Thousands and thousands of jobs gone. Great job Kmart management!
Lmfao if pay under teamster contracts is so much less than what Kmart pays why is the company fighting unionization so hard.
as a truck driver for over 20 years. Being all over the country i can honestly say that going to union places is the most miserable experience they are the slowest and most miserable people. I also went to truck driving school that was union. After I got my cdl I was on the property and some new students were talking to me and I was banned off of the property because an instructor thought I was giving them advice. Side note the school is no longer union.
Where’s Kmart now?
Kmart could have bee AMAZON, but they had no leadership!
Kmart is gone.
And how are we supposed to believe people that can't properly pronounce "negotiated"?
4:10 Does that mean you get 2 horse heads in your bed if you don't vote for the union?
that song... ugh...
Isn't Kmart bankrupt?
Maldus Alver amd pretty soon KMart will be a relic from the past, ironically back in their early years and years of prosperity most jobs in America were unionized and America had a prosperous economy
What’s a Kmart lol
Kmart forever!
The hell with NON UNION workers!
Michael Barber yeah it seems you are a real friend of the fellow worker. Great job.
Fuck unions. Any one who forces membership can’t be looking out for your best interests.
I fucking hope they voted union.
The Union didn’t keep them open.
They never unionize
Wow
Those were union paid actors!!!
I need this song
Will not be missed like blockbuster video!!
Kmart dead.
That's funny about this tape, you union was supposed to protect all of those positions in suburban Atlanta, GA. No fee, and look what occurred,no operations and total store collapse for the retailer. No foreseeable comeback. Poor decision ever.
Where are they now? Lol
I'm glad K-mart is going out of business.
How old is this video, k-mart is going out of business
How do we have different versions of the same profile picture??
Wilhelm Beaston And you’re both here watching this random video? Interesting.
If you’re an adult who works at K-Mart take the L because you’ve definitely lost at the game of life .... 😂
So teamsters woulda took down Kmart bout 10 years sooner?
That song is cringey
"(to preserve our jobs) it's up to us, as it has ALWAYS been up to the K-mart associates." Wow....never realized k-mart was a worker cooperative. Haha. Vote union, vote worker ownership.
BOOOO ON UNION👎👎👎👎👎!!!!!!!!
SAY NO TO UNION!!!!!
All those hard working African Americans out a job
Just watched this and I'll say I work as an electrician and I'll never support a union.
Let's go Brandon 😂