Rally puts spotlight on Best Buy treatment of workers

The event, titled “Shame on Best Buy,” was sponsored by United Food & Commercial Workers Local 789. Union members and others gathered outside the company’s Bloomington headquarters amid the early morning rush hour traffic with signs that read “Minnesota workers deserve better” and “Security is a union contract.”

Best Buy made $9.5 billion in profit on revenues of $40 billion in 2008. President and CEO Brian Dunn earned nearly $4 million in compensation. But recently, the company decided to slash its workforce. It demoted some 8,000 senior associates and eliminated as many as 1,000 salaried assistant managers.

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The company is relying more on part-time workers, who earn lower pay and little or no benefits, participants in the rally said.

The event also called attention to the need for the Employee Free Choice Act, federal legislation that would make it easier for workers to choose to have a voice on the job. Best Buy, which has fought union organizing attempts at its stores, is also a vocal opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act.

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Participants in the rally outside Best Buy called for fair treatment of workers.

Photos by Michael Moore, St. Paul Union Advocate

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