Wal-Mart ruling defies logic, justice

I find the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling for Wal-Mart a hard slap in the face of public justice. (Tuesday article, “Suit denied class-action status.“) It’s obvious the conservative packed Supreme Court tries, with success, to restrict the rights of working people. Their ruling makes no sense in that Wal-Mart must have a policy, no doubt in writing, which “allows” discrimination between gender, as well as management and hourly workers.

I think we can all, in good common sense terms, say that no company “publishes” their bias in advance of acting on it. No criminal notifies the police or victim, in advance, of their crime. The court will allow each individual to sue, but this is not likely or even possible for most people with limited resources. Divide and conquer, as it were.

It is a dangerous trend on our horizon when CEO pay is hundreds, even thousands, of times greater than the people who actually do the work. It’s dangerous for workers that the justice system, at present, works toward favoring the corporate entity over its workers. There is no corporation without its workers. It is a dangerous trend over the last 30 years that labor unions have been weakened. Collective bargaining generally is under assault.

Mike Dahlstrom
Everett