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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by jrochkind1 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:19PM (#13001288)
> It's an illegal labor practice in the US for an employer to do that. It's interference with the right to bargain collectively.

Sounds like this particular organization is intentionally legally organized so as not to have those protections (or restrictions).

From the OP:

"OUR Walmart, which says it has thousands of paying members, isn’t a traditional union because members don’t have collective bargaining rights. It separated last year from the United Food and Commercial Workers International, which has tried unsuccessfully for years to organize workers at Wal-Mart’s U.S. stores."

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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by mikeryan on Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:25PM (#13001329)
Thats not how it works. You don't have to be a union in order to get Labor protections. Protecting the act of organizing/unionizing is a large part of the legal labor protections which exist.
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