Big - box stores are on Thanksgiving , and their workers are n't happy , Judy Rosenberg says . A petition to prevent Target stores from opening at midnight has 192,000 signatures . While some Black Friday shoppers may indeed be fixated on the cheapest new Nintendo game system , even more have to stretch their slim paychecks just to buy necessities for the family plus an occasional toy . Ancel : If these workers had unions , they would have to negotiate schedule changes . Get some leadership , belong to something besides unions and reverse the trend , Rosenberg says .
Big - box stores are on Thanksgiving , and their workers are n't happy , Judy Rosenberg says . A petition to prevent Target stores from opening at midnight has 192,000 signatures . Ancel : If these workers had unions , they would have to negotiate schedule changes . Get some leadership , belong to something besides unions and reverse the trend , Rosenberg says .