Slow growth and lower margins were evident once the organizational justice was perceived as unfair. “All the negative publicity has hurt Walmart employees' morale. As a result, some shoppers now find them less friendly and courteous than they were in the late '90s” (Bernstein, 2005). Walmart employees also became interested in unions, despite the company’s strong policy against them. However, this did not stop a group of workers in the Los Angeles area from coming together to form Our Walmart. Becker describes Our Walmart as, “A nonunion worker association tied closely to the United Food and Commercial Workers. Even this elementary form of organization, joined by only a tiny fraction of Walmart employees, appears to have increased the capacity and confidence of workers to take action on the job. Under U.S. labor law, nonunion workers have the right to collective action over workplace issues, although, in practice, it comes with additional risks” (Becker,
Slow growth and lower margins were evident once the organizational justice was perceived as unfair. “All the negative publicity has hurt Walmart employees' morale. As a result, some shoppers now find them less friendly and courteous than they were in the late '90s” (Bernstein, 2005). Walmart employees also became interested in unions, despite the company’s strong policy against them. However, this did not stop a group of workers in the Los Angeles area from coming together to form Our Walmart. Becker describes Our Walmart as, “A nonunion worker association tied closely to the United Food and Commercial Workers. Even this elementary form of organization, joined by only a tiny fraction of Walmart employees, appears to have increased the capacity and confidence of workers to take action on the job. Under U.S. labor law, nonunion workers have the right to collective action over workplace issues, although, in practice, it comes with additional risks” (Becker,