Posted on 02/03/2006 4:38:24 PM PST by george76
Welcome, Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart (has) grown from a single shop in a small Arkansas town into a world-wide colossus with 4,000 stores, 1.3 million employees, $245 billion in annual sales and 100 million customers each week.
The company's success isn't built on exploiting.
It's built on providing.
Wal-Mart can't force anybody to work at its stores, nor can it force anybody to shop there.
Through relentless cost-cutting and technological innovation, the company offers low-cost goods to consumers, jobs for willing employees and solid returns for shareholders.
Yet Chicago...The City Council killed the prospect of a Supercenter in Chicago's South Side Chatham neighborhood...
Instead, Evergreen Park got the store, and will collect more than $1 million in taxes each year.
The real puppet masters behind the anti-Wal-Mart fervor are the big unions, who, in claiming to stand up for working Americans, end up hurting constituents they purport to represent.
In a free country, consumers have the option to shop wherever they choose...
Millions of people prefer Wal-Mart because they get significantly more value for their hard-earned dollar.
What the union blowhards don't want you to know is that, despite their PR tactics, Wal-Mart actually treats its employees quite well.
Full-time workers receive benefits that include competitive wages, profit-sharing, 401(k) plans, paid vacations, life insurance, a discount card, medical coverage, disability insurance, scholarship bonuses and child-care discounts -- just to name a few benefits.
In 2005, Wal-Mart created 125,000 U.S jobs, and is continuously adding thousands each month.
How many jobs has the City Council created this year?
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
the real danger of unions:
"By forcing unreasonably high wages, they ultimately drain businesses' potential for growth, and bring the whole ship crashing down..."
"Ever notice how mass layoffs always seem to happen at industries that are heavily unionized?"
That is a dangerous question to ask a Democratic City Council. They could have created hundreds, maybe thousands of phantom jobs in cahoots the city unions.
Mal-Wart and full time workers? Riiiiiight.
Ever notice the near 100% Democratic returns in any election in urban areas, every one of which is heavily unionized?
Not here.
No, actually that is not the real danger of unions. The real danger of unions is, you can not reward the productive with higher wages, punish the slackers by firing and must promote the meathead that has been slacking away for ten years rather then the bright hard working kid who has been there for two.
The end result is that the bright hard working kid goes to your non-union competitor and become a manager.
Non union places generally pay as much if not more then union on average.
Wal-mart in my area pays around 25% higher wages then the union stores. And no union dues.
"The truth is that all Wal-Mart does is provide low prices, serve communities with long hours, employ millions of people and pay a boatload of taxes -- more than $61 million in the state of Illinois alone."
The union rules are brutal.
Only an union electrician can replace a light bulb in a union shop...which could take weeks.
Any young person with any hope or willingness to work smart...should avoid all union shops.
Oh my goodness..........an article about WalMart that's actually on the positive side!!!!
I have to agree with PJammers.....WalMarts in this area are mostly staffed with full-timers.
That does not mean that the same is true in all areas. The same goes for the condition of stores and attitudes of employees. I have been fortunate in that I have only dealt with one where the store was obviously mismanaged.
None for if they were to create jobs and promote a positive economy, well, then the city council would have to start b!tching about themselves.
Not a very politically correct thing to do.... ; )
"Believe it or not, many USA citizens take part-time jobs, to supplement their incomes".
That would include both my wife and I. You got a problem with that?
The problem lies with the employers who will not give out more than a few skimpy hours to avoid paying any benefits.
I did NOT say I was entitled to anything. The rest of your post was condecending trash. Goodnight.
Good job of flattening an already flat toad, Sarasmom, LOL! It always amazes me when those opinions (The World Owes Me) show up around here.
Thanks for the ping, Gabz!
My Wal-Mart is staffed by little old Norwegian Grandmas, and their Grandkids are the managers and stockboys & girls. It is a pleasant, clean, efficient and friendly place to shop. I realize others don't have it as good as I do.
FWIW, up until last January ('04) I worked part time at a retail shop for a non-profit organization. No union, of course, but I was paid $11.55/hr plus a 401K. No medical, because I didn't need it then, but I was eligible with 2 more hours of work each week. There ARE decent, part-time jobs out there. And there are flexible employers, too. If you don't have the skill set to get in the door, why is that an employers fault?
If you do end up as a 'Wal-Mart Greeter' in your Golden Years, it's either because you lived beyond your means during your high-earning years and didn't plan ahead for your retirement (my own mother is a great example of this), you had some sort of disability along the way, or you like people and just want to get out of the house. I wouldn't complain that there's an employer out there that provides jobs for people in those situations, or for those that don't have the skills to work elsewhere. Disasters can happen to any of us along the way. ;)
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