Unionization at Wal-Mart What Are Case Study

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It's important to remember that Wal-Mart is a private enterprise and has a responsibilities to investors, shareholders and stakeholders to deliver a profit. All businesses in the end must generate profitable cash flows to survive. The ethicacy of their strategies to avert unionization must be balanced against the fact they are the U.S.' fifth largest employer, have a supply chain that makes it possible for the majority of families with incomes at $40K or less to make ends meet with their low prices, and consistently launch new products exceptionally well (Maher, Zimmerman, 2009). This last point drives revenue and jobs into the consumer packaged goods sector. Wal-Mart has been unethical in how they have attempted to alleviate unionization in core markets in the U.S. Yet the long-term implications of this strategy on a global level will not scale, as the case study shows.

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The case shows that the real professionals at socialism, the Peoples' Party of China (Communist Party) demand their workers get 8% raises per year regardless of how the economy or a given company is doing. This is unionization at its extreme and if allowed to flourish in the U.S., would cripple the economy. The more moderate approach of indexing union concessions to the actual performance of a business is a more realistic solution. Wal-Mart has advocated this approach and others like them for dealing with unions long-term......

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