Posted on 11/22/2012 8:08:31 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
About 20 people gathered in front of the Oakland Walmart store on Edgewater Drive Wednesday to demand better pay and work schedules.
Richmond Walmart store employee Anthony Bravo joined fellow demonstrators and said the company starts associates at minimum wage, but reported $15 billion in profits last year.
“We didn’t see nothing. I didn’t see none of that. It really makes me upset that they can make all of this money out of profits and we’re barely surviving,” Bravo said.
With the chant of “Walmart, Walmart you’re no good. Treat your workers like you should,” Bravo and the others marched through the stores with signs for about 10 minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Last time I checked, it was steady at about 3%...
It's the other things like safe working conditions and breathable air and drinkable water that significantly raises the cost of products...
Amen.
See also: German Labor Force,"Strength through Joy", etc...
The US economy grew like a weed on steroids in the 1950s and 1960s when we had both of those things. So your point is?
Are you forgetting that major European economies and manufacturing were destroyed during WW 2?
American manufacturers were up and running strong after the war building the machines to restore Europe so our economy grew. It was during that period of growth that the takers affixed themselves like a leach to suck the blood out of our economy.
>>It may not have been called “living wage”, but it just “was”. That’s why someone even in an unskilled job was able to buy a new car, a modest home of his own, and even put a kid through college. A “living wage” in all but name.<<
IOW you got caught.
Living Wage laws are modifications of Minimum Wage laws.
You should quit showing both your ignorance of economics and capitalism AND your support for unions and socialism/collectivism.
The market will still pay well for those who provide value. If you want automatic jobs for breathing, go to Greece — we can see how that worked for them.
Note: the 1950’s were gone 60 years ago. Just so you know.
Please see post 51.
We are already going thru economic suicide with globalization...
We have only 47% of the people on food stamps...Won't be long, it will be 80-90%...I hope you are willing to pay for that...I hope you will still have a job to pay for that...
>>It’s the other things like safe working conditions and breathable air and drinkable water that significantly raises the cost of products... <<
You have never owned a business have you? Or even run one?
Because you (iscool) are in contention for one of the top 10 stupidest posts ever at FR.
Chill with the red-baiting already. The 1950’s were gone 60 years ago. Just so you know
So as a society we should idle the left side of the bell curve and let them live a subsidized life style, similar to the way we treat livestock, to have pristine air and water? Offshoring is playing into the lefts hands. They get rid of those smelly factories and layed off workers become democrats. It is a win-win for them thanks to the Free Traitors.
Offshoring is playing into the lefts hands. They get rid of those smelly factories and layed off workers become democrats. It is a win-win for them thanks to the Free Traitors.
>>The US economy grew like a weed on steroids in the 1950s and 1960s when we had both of those things. So your point is?<<
Don’t you know we should go back to the 1950’s and 1960s? The good old days. Them darkies knew their place. Them Pat Boone and Elivs, what a degenerate bunch of characters. And we didn’t have many of them thar hippies. No wasting time on this internet thingy.
If them economics was good enough for my grandpappy, then it is good enough for us!
The deal is, nobody is FORCING them to work for Walmart. If they think they can do better then they should simply leave and work for someone who is offering them something better.
Minimum wage is more than some of them deserve
It is BS that they don’t see benefits of those profits. Walmart pays a quarterly bonus to associates. And, based on performance, they get a $0.40 or 0.50 cent raise a year. Mediocre employee, get a 0.40 cent raise per year. I don’t see that where I work every year. And many people never get raises year over year.
Michael Moore: please explain to the thread what leverage those evil corporations do, in fact, have against unions?
When an evil corporation hits union extortion then their only options are to shift operations to a better state, shift operations to a better country or to go bankrupt (like Hostess).
Capital goes where it is treated best. India, China, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and so forth are gaining capital because they are (comparatively) hospitable to capital. America is bleeding capital because it is currently inhospitable to it.
Your plan - such as it is - would be to institute financial repression. You would wall up capital so that it couldn’t move out of the country and also force Americans to buy protected, Government-approved brands.
Which would be an absolute disaster. Financial repression hasn’t worked for Argentina or Venezuela or Zimbabwe - why would it work for the US of A?
>>Chill with the red-baiting already. The 1950’s were gone 60 years ago. Just so you know<<
Hey, when someone espouses socialist policies — and even worse suggests all Conservatives should — I call them out and call a rose a rose.
Like I said — Realism is a fundamental Conservative value.
The US has the highest corporate taxes on Earth and the harshest regulations, do you think companies want to invest here?
So who determines what a person's labor is worth??? The Chinese gov't???
and the competitive labor market.
You mean the illegals from Mexico???
Minimum wage has less value now than it did in 1960...Minimum wage is for high school and college kids...Not a man with a family who is forced to get the rest of his needed income from the gov't...
>>We are already going thru economic suicide with globalization...
We have only 47% of the people on food stamps...Won’t be long, it will be 80-90%...I hope you are willing to pay for that...I hope you will still have a job to pay for that...<<
That is’t globalism that caused that, per se. Do you know what really killed Hostess? (hint — it wasn’t the Union).
And how do you propose stopping globalism? By the wave of your little hand? It is here, like it or not.
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