Posted on 04/18/2015 9:08:39 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The budding “revolutionary guards” among WalMart employees may be learning a lesson about economics in the real world; a course they were never offered during their substandard public educations.
The pressure from militant employees and union thugs has brought about a series of raises for WalMart workers, which is supposed to be good news. But is it?
Some of these raises will start immediately and others will follow until all REMAINING workers will see remarkable increases in their salaries; some will be getting $80 per week raises.
Nevertheless, WalMart has not become the largest retailer in the world by voluntarily shrinking its own already razor thin profit margin. The “hard fought – hard won” raises have a price tag that will be paid by some of the very “revolutionaries” who fought so hard for them.
Since the new pay structure was announced, WalMart has experienced an outbreak of “faulty plumbing” in some of its stores. These suspiciously handy “plumbing failures” have necessitated closing at least five stores due to “ongoing plumbing issues that will require extensive repairs.” A review of the listed stores shows that one, in Pico Rivera California, has been the scene of ongoing employee work stoppages and picketing.
During the widely reported incidents, a worker was...
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Those pesky pro union workers are being flushed out of the system! Down the sewer! Heee Heee!
Here’s the curious business strategy. Say you close down a Wal-Mart like in this example. A smart start-up company would want to move in and take customers. But then you’d worry....what if Wal-Mart does come back? And how quick could you achieve an opening? And if you did open....if the ex-Wal-Mart guys were handing over resumes....would you hire them if you knew about the union-talk from before?
I would guess that each of those ex-workers are sitting there and finding no job market for them or their skills.
Plumbing problems can be used as the reason for many stores to close down now due to minimum wage and union problems.
I look to that here I Seattle with McDonalds and others with the wage gone up to $15.00.
Our local Walmart’s ditched the self checkout...too much “thievage”.
This whole thing is just bizarre. I can’t imagine the one in Midland, Texas, or the Oklahoma ore being closed for union difficulties. Were any of the stores closed as sacrificial lambs or as warning to other employees in other locations? This entire thing just goes in the same bag as the disappearing airliner.
soetoro organizes $15 hour protesters at closed wal mart!!! err, ahh, uhh, never mind.
Why not? How do you know union petitions weren't being circulated? My educated guess is that they were.
Walmart has enough of the market share that they can easily absorb the losses of shutting down stores in places that demand $15.00hr pay rates for every position. Their solution will be to shut down the stores in hostile territory, and build just outside the city limits, or abandon the region altogether, and take a charge against earnings.
There is a take-home lesson here for employers who might have to fire employees for various reasons including but not limited to personal grooming, appearance, or unreasonable demands, but need to be stealthy about it due to ... ahem ... legal reasons.
Don’t you mean “shrinkage”?
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most states support at-will “de-employment”, meaning they can be fired for any reason or no reason (barring a contract or labor agreement).
Big difference!
Still a guess. If the unions WERE trying to organize I'm sure we'd have heard all about it by now. It's been a couple of days now. I'm sure the union goons would be crying all over TV by now.
What...there are libtards in Midland or Oklahoma that work at Wally World...?
No doubt Walmart uses union plumbers, considering the size of their stores...so what’s the problem? After all, who wants a pipe breaking over their heads?
Poor Wal-Mart squeaked by with only enough profit to create 15,000 new Millionaires this time around...I feel so sorry for them...
Yep shrinkage is a big problem with some employees and the store’s location and the demographics of customers. Employees have been known to encourage friends and family to shop and seek out the register they are working to check out on. Free stuff = shrinkage! They will eventually get caught!
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