Go Figure: Cyber Monday To Be Boycotted

[ABM]

http://news.yahoo.com/activist-grou...0043420--abc-news-savings-and-investment.html

In preparation for Cyber Monday, the Day of Virtual Shopping that takes place on the first Monday after Thanksgiving, online retailers are pulling out all the stops. Free shipping deals! Exclusive online promotions! A set of Ginsu knives with every purchase! (OK, maybe no knives, but you get the idea).
Clearly, this year's Cyber Monday - a term coined in 2005 by Shop.org, the online arm of the National Retail Federation - is shaping up to be a big one. According to comScore, which measures digital commerce, consumers spent some $1.25 billion in 2011, up 22 percent from 2010. And this year should show similar growth.
Not everyone is happy with the online consumption. Some organizations and companies have asked shoppers to take a deep breath before pulling out their credit cards - or, more pointedly, to boycott Cyber Monday altogether.
On Nov. 8, Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work, a labor rights advocacy and campaign organization, launched an anti-Cyber Monday campaign.

http://act.americanrightsatwork.org..._KEY=5068&track=20121108_adv_cyber_monday_url

Its goal is to get consumers to sign a pledge not to shop on Cyber Monday because of "dangerous, sweatshop-like working conditions facing U.S. warehouse workers who fulfill online orders for retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon," Sarita Gupta, executive director of Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work, said in a statement to ABC News. On its website, the group cites workplace injustices including the "backbreaking pace of work," "extreme temperature," and "expendable employment," among other issues.
The group says it was inspired by recent strikes by Wal-Mart employees and warehouse workers. In mid-September, workers in Southern California went on a 15-day strike that included a six-day, 50-mile pilgrimage for safe jobs. Around the same time, hundreds of people marched in Dallas and San Diego, demanding better work conditions.....

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I looked them up and it's a union rights organization.

Like that was a big shock.

 

[ABM]

I looked them up and it's a union rights organization.

Like that was a big shock.

Where's Mick when you need him.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Where's Mick when you need him.

Did you put on the batshit crazy light?

 

[ABM]

Did you put on the batshit crazy light?

Sometimes, you just have to take chances in life...

 

[DaLincolnJones]

now there you go, I have to wipe off the keys...repped

 

[3RA1N1AC]

lol, what a circle jerk

 

[Mediocre Man]

Fucking Unions

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Talk about a thread starting out at a low point and getting worse...

 

[MickZagger]

damn union bastards!

 

[ABM]

Talk about a thread starting out at a low point and getting worse...

On a brighter note, I have logged more posts than you. Neener!