UFCW 789 plans rally at Best Buy corporate headquarters

Although Best Buy earned $9.5 billion in profit on revenues of $40 billion in 2008, the company announced last week plans to demote as many as 8,000 senior associates and eliminate as many as 1,000 salaried assistant manager positions. Instead of paying full-time workers, the non-unionized company will increase hours worked by their part-timers, who earn much lower wages and few or no benefits.

Workers without a union contract can be fired, demoted or have their pay and benefits taken away at any time – and for almost any reason. Best Buy is also an opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act, federal legislation that would enable workers who want a union to organize more easily than under current labor law.

The rally will be at Best Buy corporate headquarters, 7601 Penn Ave. S, Bloomington from 7:30 to 9 a.m.

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