Today is International Workers' Day throughout the socialist and communist world, including the Daily Kos, who took this opportunity to slam Wal-Mart. They noted that Wal-Mart was investigated by Human Rights Watch, noting that:
Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental group based in New York, is best known for scathing reports on political issues such as the Rwandan genocide and the Congo's use of children in its military.The clear implication, of course, is that Wal-Mart's treatment of its workers rises to a level of concern consistent with genocide and child conscription, because it's non-union.
My standard for concern about an organization is somewhat different. If an organization has people beating down the doors to get in, it's probably not a problem how they're treating their workers. If an institution has people risking their lives to flee, that's probably an institution that needs some outside monitoring.
The workers of the world deserve better.
Comments (2)
May day is also a holiday in many non-communist or socialist countries...Taiwan for instance.
Posted by Aaron | May 2, 2007 8:11 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 08:11
It's the upside down, inside out, nihilistic and arrogant world of socialism. ‘Tis not the individual employees who know which trade-offs are best for them and ‘tis not the employers (the consumers of employee's labour) who know how much employees' labour is worth to them. Only the Daily Kos has the magic totalitarian formula for workers’ Utopia.
Didn't the Daily Kos post an homage to Sueng-Hui Cho last week? There's a reason leftists always seem to reject good in favour of Evil. Evan Sayet explained it best in this speech at the Heritage Foundation.
Posted by Kat | May 2, 2007 8:43 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 08:43