Posted on 11/30/2014 12:31:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
CBS reports: Workers, Activists Protest Low Wages at D.C. Walmart on Black Friday
The vast majority of WM employees know the unions do not have their best interests at heart
Walmart needs to respect our right to speak out for a better lifeIt is not up to Walmart to provide you a better life. that is up to you. Education would be a start. Maybe an additional part time job like many of us have too do in the Obama economy..
Walmart annual wages range between $16,000-$23,000 for cashiers
For a cashier? An Army E1 w/2years in gets $18,378
I think you should stop complaining..............
>> Walmart needs to respect our right to speak out for a better life
And what is Walmart doing to disrespect such rights?
Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base.
Although I agree with you, the educational establishment has not made it easy for somebody to get an education and work for a living.
It can be done, but it’s harder than it should be.
To be honest, once the Walmart opened in DC....it was the only non-government significant job creator in decades within the District. You could line up a hundred employees and they’d all tell you that they are happy with the job and the company.
When Wal-Mart opened in our town there were thousands of applicants for a few hundred jobs; nobody here would be protesting...
I worked at Wal Mart and would have loved to have had a union to help protect me from what I considered production harassment. I’ve worked union and I’ve worked non-union and the pay, benefits, and treatment have always been better where there was a union. When I’ve worked non-union, I’ve felt like a peon going up against Goliath when I’ve had a legitimate complaint. I know this is not everyone’s experience but it’s been mine.
Are you known among fellow employees as a complainer?
Just asking. I’ve known a few individuals through the years who viewed themselves and their constant complaining as heroic; while their fellow employees viewed them as pain in the ass troublemakers.
The Scottish poet Robert Burns, I believe, said: “Of all the gifts the Giftie gie is; to see ourselves as others see us.”
Merry Christmas
In Williston, ND, they were provided housing. (Rents in town are nuts).
No. I always bit my tongue. Another employee with a couple of years in said in the break room once: “People on disability make more than we do.”
Another long-time employee came out on the floor once when I was stocking and said: “Does it ever frustrate you when they expect you to meet those ridiculous quotas?”
The “complainer”s at the store were management. Always gettin’ on people for production when most of the people were workin’ hard for not much pay while the store had profits coming of their ears.
As to being “complainer”: Why is it so often assumed that the worker has an attitude proper while it can’t even be considered that the corporation might have a greed problem?
“For a cashier? An Army E1 w/2years in gets $18,378
I think you should stop complaining..............”
An Army E1 w/2years... As I recall, one is more or less promoted automatically to E2 after about six months. By two years nearly all have been promoted to E3 and many have made E4. Btw, way back in the day (1965~1968) as an E1 I was paid $98/mo. Just a side note, cigarettes were $1/carton, bottle of Jacj Daniels Black was around $2. On post clubs had slots too.
Wal-mart employees are not subject to being sent into combat against their wills, either.
There is ABSOLUTELY no comparison between Wal-mart employment (or any other civilian employment, for that matter) and the indentured servitude that is military life. Yes, military life is chosen voluntarily and it is often not a bad life. But please don't throw out spurious arguments like "Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base."
At times my USMC "housing" fell under the category of "home is where you dig it."
The 1.3 million member United Food and Commercial Workers union, one of whose tactics is to go into W-M stores, posing as shoppers, fill a cart with meat and other perishables and walk away from it. W-M then has to throw away the food. It does not get re stocked.
Then let's respect Wal-Mart's right to fire anybody they want and for any reason they want.
“Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base.”
Army E1’s don’t get to live with mommy and daddy at home either.
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