In the aftermath of Black Friday, there's been an extra focus on mega-popular and always-controversial mega-retailer Wal-Mart – which some columnists suggest may be motivated by more than just social equality for workers.
According to Diana Fruchtgott-Roth, a columnist with the right-leaning Washington Examiner, the series of protest "strikes" organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union outside of Wal-Mart stores last week may have more to do with the union's failing pension finances and less to do with the fate of Wal-Mart's chronically underpaid and largely part-time employees.
The columnist, a former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, opines that the union's substantially underfunded pensions could be fundamentally inflated by the dues of the approximately 1.4 million Wal-Mart employees it seeks to unionize – roughly doubling the UFCW's existing ranks.
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