Law to make Wal-Mart raise benefits

Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 3/8/6 | REBECCA FERRAR

[manwiththehands]

STUPID DEMOCRATS! Always wanting to punish the most successful ... oh, wait a minute. This guy's a "Republican".

Sorry. My bad.

[okie01]

Other than national defense, there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Also taxes. One party wants to raise them, the other wants to lower them.

We won't talk about spending...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

"All we want is for them to pay their fair share. That’s not a lot to ask."

Funny, I don't hear a lot of voices among politicians demanding that illegal aliens pay THEIR fair share of health costs. Idiot.

[lawnguy]

I thought Walmart had their own HMO type of thing.

If I were them, I would just tell these guys to stick it, and we'll SELL health insurance.

This populism approach is as old as politics.

No matter if the perp is GOP or Dimm, his first duty is to get himself re-elected.

[SouthTexas]

Did you expect anything less? There is all kinds of support for Congress to ban the sale of one foreign company to another, this is the natural progression.

[Spktyr]

Another easy method - fire as many employees as needed to get down to 9500 (to allow slop for day-to-day staffing attrition), and make *sure* they know why they're being fired.

And then work everyone else mandatory overtime.

[VeniVidiVici]

He's got a B-S in Education. Guess it doesn't require any economics courses.

Of course, it probably has a ton of social engineering courses.

[xrp]

Also taxes. One party wants to raise them, the other wants to lower them.

Lowering taxes without reducing spending creates no illusions with me. The bill will come due one day and any amount that is borrowed today will cost more tomorrow. I'm just hoping I can save enough money before the fiscal collapse starts, stick it in Cayman Islands bank accounts and move to Belize.

[JavaTheHutt]

And then work everyone else mandatory overtime.

That would cost them more money. Walmart likes to keep everyone a few hours short of the 40 hour week, just to make sure they don't have to pay the higher overtime rates. I don't know why they don't just put all the employees on salary, then they could squeeze more hours out of them without worrying about paying overtime.

[xrp]

It takes somewhere around 300-500 employees to run a Wal*Mart store (assume Super Center, which is about all they build anymore). Even if they only had 300 per store, they'd only be able to operate 31 stores in Tennessee. There's probably that many Wal*Marts in the metro areas of Knoxville and Nashville alone.

[Spktyr]

I suspect that they'll only have 31 stores in TN, if that bill passes.

[xrp]

I don't know why they don't just put all the employees on salary, then they could squeeze more hours out of them without worrying about paying overtime.

It is less expensive to keep manual labor/retail labor at an hourly pay rate. As you stated yourself, Wal*Mart keeps everyone a few hours short of 40 each week to avoid OT. Well, in times of low volume/sales/customers, they send workers home, which removes them from the timeclock and them being paid. With salaried workers, you can't remove them from being paid during low volume periods.

[loneroofer]

Speaking of jobs where did these people work before Wal-Mart? Who made them work there? Obviously they were forced to take this job. If Wal-Mart weren't there would they all be on welfare . Who would pay the "fair share " then?A Wal-Mart recently opened in my area and there was no end of applicants. And they (Wal-Mart) didn't put anyone out of business. On the contrary , about 20 satellite companies opened too.

[Myrddin]

He's got a B-S in Education. Guess it doesn't require any economics courses.

Education degrees are usually the bottom of the barrel. People who couldn't hack a degree in the sciences or math. They carry their poor performance into the classroom to provide a poor education to the next generation. The one's who can't hack it in the classroom run for public office.

[xrp]

Nah, I've never voted for a Democrat in my life. Pretty soon I won't be voting Republican for the rest of my life.

[Myrddin]

t takes somewhere around 300-500 employees to run a Wal*Mart store (assume Super Center, which is about all they build anymore). Even if they only had 300 per store, they'd only be able to operate 31 stores in Tennessee. There's probably that many Wal*Marts in the metro areas of Knoxville and Nashville alone.

Form a bunch of small corporations named "Walmart of XXX County". Each one is a separate company. It's unlikely any of the single county corporate businesses would have more than 9,999 employees.

[TheForceOfOne]

And here is another sponsored by the government for families and children with no insurance.

Click Me

[BenLurkin]

Has got to be unconstitutional!

[scrabblehack]

It's not my district...

[Lancey Howard]

My Congressman for about ten years was Jim Greenwood, and after the first election I never voted for him again. Now another scared-bunny liberal Republican, Mike Fitzpatrick, has taken his place and I won't ever be voting for him again, either.