Posted on 11/28/2014 2:12:39 PM PST by mdittmar
It's becoming a tradition for Black Friday shoppers to find not just deals, but protests at some Walmart stores.
This year, some of the biggest demonstrations took place outside Walmarts in Chicago and Washington D.C., as well in cities in California, Washington, Texas and New Jersey.
At a store in North Bergen, N.J., about 75 protesters marched around the parking lot. They carried signs that read: "People who work deserve a living wage" and "Shame on Walmart." At times they chanted: "Walmart, your kingdom must come down."
Most of them were not Walmart employees but are asking the company to pay all workers at least $15 an hour. Walmart says it pays full-time workers an average of $12.94 an hour.
It is the third year in a row that union-backed groups organized Black Friday protests at some Walmart locations.
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We'll,great,now I can't believe what I see in the old media;)
That's about $26,000 a year without overtime. These are basically unskilled jobs.
The median HOUSEHOLD income in the US is approx $50/yr. Often, that means more than one person in the household contributes to the total income.
It doesn't seem to me that WalMart's compensation is unfair.
But, of course, the main point is that the PAID union protesters are NOT WalMart employees. I used to see this kind of thing all the time when I lived in Toledo, Ohio. The local union thugs were always picketing outside Aldi's Market and verbally harassing the elderly people who shopped there. The union thugs weren't Aldi employees. The Aldi people were well-paid and didn't want a union.
Unions: Mobsters, Marxists and Misfits. And the rank-and-file pay for it and get treated like crap by the unionistas.
Collectively bargaining for people they aren't entitled to speak for. It would be fun to see the actual Walmart employees chase the goons off, or counter their protest with "Walmart is walright with us."
I am watching CNN right now. The protesters being interviewed are illiterates. These people are not worth $1.50 per hour.
This has nothing to do with the workers welfare.
The labor unions see that Walmart is a fantastically well managed and prosperous enterprise and are determined to strong-arm their way in and extort as much of the wealth as possible.
Unions have brought just about every industry in America to its knees and are eager to do the same to Walmart.
Notice it says “Private employees” because the government is #1
Exactly right, the protesters are NOT union employees. In fact, they are hurting the real Wal-Mart employees by disrupting business. The real WM employees probably know this.
I know when we win the elections, all these pro-liberal pieces will just disappear from the MSM...
Alright, fine, they’ll go to the last page in the paper...
Bah, why am I being so delusional. They’ll likely become ‘breaking news.’
“Tonight, three protesters picketed the local big box store, demanding better working conditions.” whereas the story SHOULD say, “Tonight, three paid protesters were attempting to gather media attention for free. We’re not releasing the location of the fake protest, and have passed them the card for our advertising department. If they want to run an ad on our station, they can pay for it just like everyone else does, our general manager was quoted as saying.”
absolutely
Ive heard stories about our servicemen with families needing Food Stamps. THEY deserve Better
Nice post.
Unfortunately the MSM mission is to boost regime affiliates.
I think it would be hilarious for someone with a bullhorn to impersonate a Wal-Mart manager, to say to the protesters that their pictures have been taken and computer analyzed, and in the future, Wal-Mart reserves the right to refuse to sell them anything. They are now on the banned list.
And if they ever enter a Wal-Mart again, they may be cited for trespassing.
SSDY
A more helpful protest would be to bring back manufacturing to the US. By not having that money go overseas they'd have availability of more job options.
FWIW, when you can find made in the USA merchandise, the prices are competitive.
Did you know that the United Food & Commercial Workers Union was formed by the merger of two Communist Party USA controlled unions?
One was the infamously red “Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters Union” of Chicago, led by SOviet operative Abe Feinglass (International VP of the KGB front, the World Peace Council, and a CPUSA labor leader since at least 1939 in the Illinois/Chicago area, among other fronts).
I’ve forgotten what the name of the other smaller CP union was and don’t have my notes with me.
Similar in merger formation like the Marxist-controlled SEIU did (taking two or three smaller unions and creating a super-union out of them - SEIU, Local 1199 and District 65 of the Distributive Workers Union).
If you know the hidden players, you’ll know how the game is played and the news “not” covered by the MSM.
Domestic Federal regulations make US manufacture a far more expensive proposition than it was in the past. And a frequent move is to simply assemble Chinese parts in the USA to be able to slap that label on.
Everybody wants a humane workplace but nobody can assure it against every possible risk. That is to try to live in cloud cuckoo land.
55% of WM sales in the US is grocery.
Is their grocery stuff all that much differently sourced or quality than competitors?
Then excellent protests everyone could agree to, across the political spectrum, is against government regulations and fees that prohibit job expansion in the US.
When a union isn't involved.
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