Posted on 09/07/2013 12:23:28 PM PDT by usalady
Walmart gleefully reported on Friday September 6, 2013 about the low turnout for the walkout sponsored by an affiliate of the United Food and Commercial International Union (UFCW) indicating that unions no longer have any teeth.
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It would appear that you are only here to promote your Examiner blog:
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Have you thoughts on that?
Labor unions point to the fact that half a million associates leave Wal-Mart yearly. According to Wal-Mart’s data, which I used in my final MBA paper, the average associate starts there at age 40. It’s his/her first job. They gain skills; how to dress, how to address customers, the importance of being at work on time, etc. After a year, they have work experience and they go to a better job. The average hourly pay in 2007 was something like $12.50/hr. Wal-Mart is the largest employer in 15 states. They have replaced the 700,000 manufacturing plants that have closed since 1990 and have become the nation’s job growth engine. Without them, the poor would have no hope of climbing the success ladder. And, the unions want to end that by forcing the pay to be so high those half million won’t leave and find better jobs. They’ll stay. What will happen to the millions who now can’t get a job at Wal-Mart?
Like mccdonalds, kfc and now walmart these workers are cutting off thier nose inspite of thier face. These are the stores they frequent and rely upon for reasonable prices so when they offer them bigger wages they will compensate with higher prices. Back at ya!
My wife is a manager at one of our local Wal-Marts. I asked her if there were any employee walk outs or protesters at her store? Not one, she said, the employees need their jobs.
Automation will eventually phase out many employees. Our Walmart has quite a few self check out machines which have become very popular.
I haven’t set foot in Walmart in 4 1/2 years. I saw firsthand how they treat their employees.
That’s not a blog.
My wife worked there. LOVED the job. management would bend over backwards for her as her illness progressed. When the doctors finely said “stop working” they threw her a going away party. Walmart management worked with her every step of the way, people traded shifts with her, managers would cover shifts so she could go to doctors appointments and her bad days where she can’t get out of bed.
She would disagree with you. Thankfully, shes still with me today to disagree with you directly.
The store you went in 4.5 years ago is likely not how many others are run.
Now.. The target by my place fits your description. But it’s a ghost town and likely won’t be around long.
Examiner?
Sorry, disagree, you are in error.
It is a blog. One of the worst sort. Any smacktard can sign up
to "write" for Examiner. It is a pay-per-click horror of pop-ups
and trackers and malware and every form of poor writing you could imagine.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
It’s still not a blog.
You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I’ll take that. Glad for you and your wife. Just wasn’t for me.
It is NOT a blog!
It’s a website, it is not a “web log”, the two words that give us the contraction “blog”.
Not every website you find offensive is a “blog”.
It’s worse than Wordpress and worse than Blogspot.
Hate it all you want, it is still NOT a blog.
I don't think I saw anybody quit.
If you like Walmart, that's cool. And it's your decision.
I don't like Walmart, that's cool. And it's my decision.
Semper Fi, brother.
This falls into a subset of that set.
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