Hey, look what I found. It's the gun that WalMart holds to the heads of their employees to make them work for low wages and no benefits. I'm just glad that my boss doesn't have one of these.
LOL Oh yeah. The world's richest retailer just can't abide those uppity employees wanting to work for 40 hours instead of the usual 39, wanting benefits and ~gasp~ a livable wage. Who do they think they're dealing with? Why Walmart will have to give up the poor Chinese and hope they can find little children willing to work to produce their goods for 10cents per hour.
It's all the UNIONS fault...Just like the unions made the execs at GM pay 2 Billion to avoid buying something...
Note: This isn't defending unions, I am just trying to point out the double standard that exists in the minds of some.
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What are you talking about?
WalMart does not produce anything, they simply buy things there and sell them here.
If and when they can find the same things cheaper elsewhere, then they would buy there.
People have a right to unionize to bargain for better wages and benefits.
And Walmart has a right to shut down their stores.
I hope the unions are successful.
The poor souls that work for Walmart deserve better.
And if Walmart wants to shut down all their stores, so be it.
The poor souls will find other work, probably for better pay.
The union won. Those employees are now free to work 40 hours for someone else. Or open their own mom and pop store and give themselves huge wage and benefit packages. It's win-win.
Do you have any idea how many hours Wal-Mart considers "full time" employment?
Righteously, comrade. Long live the glorious struggle of the proletariat against the running dog capitalist oppressors. The masses must control the means of production. The worker’s flag is the deepest red! Down with the imperialist plutocrats!
Oh yes, a "livable wage"! 'Cause we all know that companies are REQUIRED to pay what some pinhead says is a "livable wage", right? I mean, just because you go out and build a company, and hire people to work for you, and those people CHOOSE to be your employees, doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to dictate what you pay them, right? I am so tired of this "living wage" crap. No one is obligated to give you a job, and no one is obligated to pay you any particular amount (apart from the old minimum wage, of course).
If you don't like what they're paying you, go get a job someplace else. Or better yet, start your own company. Of course, if you did that, you might run the risk of becoming "rich", which is obviously a bad thing in your opinion. Yes, Wal-Mart is too rich, that's the problem! If we could only make them and every other company that is successful poor, everything would be just peachy. Just like if we could just somehow make all the rich more like the poor, then everyone would be better off. Yeah, that's the ticket.
If you had a speck of a clue of what you speak, then you would know that Wally-World employees get full-time benefits at 32 hours. It was 28 hours until 3 years ago when they raised it to 32. They also pay at least the going rate in their locale, but usually about 10% more. How do you think that they hire and keep so many employees.
You are woefully misinformed if you swallow the dreck spewed by the anti-business WalMart bashers. Put the Cool-Aid down and back away from the BrainDead bar.
Hey, look what I found. It's the gun that WalMart holds to the heads of their employees to make them work for low wages and no benefits. I'm just glad that my boss doesn't have one of these.