Posted on 11/28/2014 4:11:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The biggest Black Friday protest ever hit Walmart today, and so far dozens of people who are calling on Walmart to pay their employees a living wage have been arrested. Santa Claus was also cuffed and taken away in California.
Protests were scheduled today at 1,600 Walmart stores in 49 states, by workers and their supporters who are demanding that the nation’s largest private employer pays their workers a living wage.
According to OUR Walmart, 11 workers and supporters were arrested at the store located outside of Chicago, and 35 Walmart protesters were arrested in Sacramento, CA, including the world’s most famous resident of the North Pole:
Thousands of protesters gathered at Walmart stores around the country to deliver a simple message. A family can’t survive on what Walmart pays their workers. As CBS Detroit reported, “Organizer Reverend Edwin Rose said that the average Walmart employee makes around $25,000 per year. ‘They’re having food drives for their own employees — most places have food drives for other people, for poor people,’ Rose said. ‘In this case, the poor people are inside working.'”
Walmart donates heavily to Republican candidates and the Republican Party, “Since 2000, 69% of Walmart PAC’s and the Walton family’s political donations have gone to anti-gay, anti-environment, pro-gun, pro-business conservatives like Ted Cruz and John Boehner.” Walmart lures Democrats and liberals in the door with cheap deals, but the money that the left spends in their stores supports John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party.
Behind all of the homey television advertising featuring Melissa Joan Hart and Anthony Anderson is a corporate behemoth that is increasing the gap between the wealthy and the poor. Those cheap deals on televisions that Walmart is offering on Black Friday come at a heavy price. Just remember that those always low prices that get you into the store are keeping workers poor, and Republicans in power.
Well, before 2009, jobs like WM and fast food were snarkily termed “McJobs” by Democrats.
Now after 6 yrs of the Baraqqi Depression, they are held up as the gold standard for the middle class to aspire to.
Yep... that’s why they’re called “entry level (or starter) jobs”. Work a bit, gain experience, add a bit to your resume’ then move up or on.
It is just an effort to unionize the workers.
Jason Easley writes like a third-grader who is constipated, both physically and mentally. But then again he writes for Publicus, which is like saying I write for my own paper which I publish in the basement of my parents’ house and which has a circulation of one.
I had more people over my house for Thanksgiving than were at these protests (about 9 humans, one dog, three cats, a boa constrictor, one possum, at least one raccoon (he got some apple pie), and maybe a fox and rabbit. And none were arrested for criminal activities at the local Wal-Mart.
We pay for our purchases, which in term pays for the salaries of their workers. If they don’t like their jobs, quit, join your friends on unemployment, like at home like a loser, and eat frozen dinners for the rest of your miserable lives.
Or work hard, continue to go to school, look like you didn’t shop at the local trash dump, speak properly, show up on time at work, and learn to save a few bucks for later on.
Cream floats to the top; turds sink to the bottom. Your choice.
I worked at the unemployment office for many years. If you quit (in most cases) you don’t get Unemployment Insurance (UI) afterwards.
Ironic - the unions support Obama, who wasn’t able to deliver on his promise to save Americans $2000. a year on their health insurance - but studies have shown that Walmart could save the average US family shopping there about $2000. each year.....
Politicus. And he founded the web page.
And, as a credential, he tells us that he "Attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania"... which I am not sure I have even heard of, however, he apparently didn't even graduate.
Not sure why anyone publishes or gets worked up about such a dead-eye loser.
Golly, how about a list of businesses that supoort Demoncrats, who also don’t pay more than Walmart? Such crappy bias from a lunatic.
very few of these protesters work at Wal-Mart and they should all be arrested for trespassing or vandalism or whatever else
Thinking people stuck with entry level low wage jobs choose one where there is the opportunity for advancement. I get it that people would like to get a living wage in a job with no potential to move forward, but it doesn’t work that way.
bump
I am sure there are many too
Hillary Clinton was on the Wal-Mart board of directors from 1986-1992...
a handful of idiots at a few walmarts doesn’t equal “thousands”
lol
$25,000/year is $12.00 an hour on a 40 hour week. That’s almost double minimum wage.
Walmart appears to be the largest employer in the US. They’re a target for that reason alone. The unions want to organize the Walmart workers & the protest groups are nothing but a front for the unions.
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