I guess paying below a living wage is acceptable. I don’t condone everything the union does. Never have. I don’t believe that anyman is worth 35-40 dollars and hour. But I do believe that everyone should be able to make a wage that is able to cover a family’s bills. Walmart doesn’t. As far as my comment about destroying small busineses. I have seen businesses in this community, as well as others, that have been around for a century, close because they can’t compete with a company that the ability to by a bare bottom prices. And think about this, Walmart has stated their intentions to close Target, Kmart, Amazon and other retail outlets. Destruction of competition is their goal.
Are you crazy? You showed back up with THAT?
Why would anyone accept a job that is insufficient to pay their bills? I assume the small businesses you are so fond of would hire these folks at a much higher wage, right?
Actually Walmart has increased competition and lowered prices elsewhere. Especially with those 4 dollar prescriptions. Now their competitors are offering lower prices.
It has helped us out.
Are you sure you’re posting on the right forum? It sounds like you’re against the free market and in the tank for unions.
VirginiaMom
You don’t think someone who invested years of their life educating themselves to the point of becoming an expert in their field should earn a lousy $70-80K/year?
I’m guessing you have folks asking you for fries pretty often.
People that enter the business world always want to beat their competition, otherwise, why bother?
People do not start a business for the purpose of hiring employees, paying benefits and getting taxed to death. People start a business and work to make a profit.
The bonus is when you are doing so well that you need to hire others. That means business growth has happened and jobs for other people.
“I guess paying below a living wage is acceptable.”
It is absolutely acceptable.
Whatever an employee agrees to accept from an employer is acceptable. There should be no outside interference in that transaction.
If you don’t like the wages offered, go work somewhere else. Nobody owes you a living.
Not every job is WORTH a “living wage”.
You sound like a Marxist.
Every man can earn a wage to cover a family’s bills if he so wishes. He’s not indentured to Walmart and is free to make as little or as much of himself as he desires.
What right does one have to demand that Walmart pay them for stocking shelves what another makes after having invested in education and training? Want to make a career of Walmart? You can, but it’s going to take you a good amount of time as well it should.
Walmart wants to close their competition? You think the mom and pops out there didn’t want to see theirs go away too?
If I’m not mistaken, Walmart is constantly changing strategies because Target and co. are giving them a good run.
What the devil is a "living wage"? My wages never breath and only move when I move them.
BTW, in my heavily union area Wal-mart pays MORE then the unionized stores and if you want to work over time you doing have to give the shop steward a BJ.
I don’t believe that anyman is worth 35-40 dollars and hour.What an odd view. How did you decide that range? Oh yeah, I am still waiting for an answer - what business got closed down by Walmart in Huntington, waiting..... {{{crickets}}}
Years ago while in high school my daughter worked as a cashier at a Target store. After a Wal-Mart building started construction across the street, they announced that hourly wages at Target would be going up by a dollar an hour as soon as the Wal-Mart store opened.
I guess being protected by the hard left politically connected Dayton family (the former Dayton Hudson Corp started the Target chain) and former Minnesota Democrat Senator Mark Dayton protects Target from Democrat political and union pressures.
What if a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk are $45.00? (It's closer than you think.)
Well thank God your oafish a$$ isn't in charge of wage determinations then. F#$% off btw you communist puke.