The Employee Free Choice Act, generally known as card check, is a huge issue for Home Depot, with 300,000 non-union employees. Does it worry you less now than it did six months ago?Bernie Marcus, the founder and former CEO of Home Depot, has also been very outspoken about the proposed legislation in the past:
We are worried about it because we think it is just wrong. It has morphed a bit [with a key provision weakened in the latest version], and that we think is very good news. But we think it's wrong.
Any expectations about what's going to happen with it?
No, but let me tell you what will happen. We will do the right thing for our stores. When we talked to our store associates and said, Why would you want to join a union, you know what we learned? It is really not because of our pay. It is because of the relationship they have with their boss. So the most important thing for us is to make sure that our store manager can call each of his or her associates by name without their apron on and know something about them -- to create that connectivity, the family within the store, which keeps any organizing activities outside, regardless of what might happen.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Home Depot’s CFO Talks About The Need For Positive Employee Communications
I was recently reading an interview with Home Depot’s CFO Carol Tome where she touched on a number of subjects, including the Employee Free Choice Act:
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were do you higher ups get your info from? i work for home depot and i do not care if your store manager knows me or not. i do not live to work, i work to live. at this time i can not live on the wage i make. lets put it this way can you live on $10.15 an hour and that is part time. becuse your company works me 39.75 hours a week,because ther is no fulltime available at this time. UNION!!!
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