Posted on 11/23/2012 5:47:50 AM PST by tobyhill
Black Friday has begun and reached full swing in Milwaukee, but some workers at America's biggest retailer have walked off the job.
Workers at the 58th and Capitol location in Milwaukee and a Kenosha location walked off the job during Black Friday sales.
1 worker walked off in Milwaukee, while more left the job in Kenosha.
"We're here not to bash Walmart, but to make Walmart a better place to work," said Jerry Synowicz, a Walmart employee, on TODAY'S TMJ4's "Live at Daybreak."
"We want a fair wage for a good days work. We're not asking for a lot. People start at barely over minimum wage, and only go up 30 to 40 cents per year."
He cited what protesters said were needs for both better pay and better health care coverage.
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It is 0.40 to 0.50 per hour, and it is guaranteed unless you are in big trouble. And it takes a lot to get fired from Walmart.
My son’s health insurance premiums are less than mine.
If all these agitators could do is get one person to walk out, then I am not too worried about those employees striking. Son said no one was out where he worked last night.
The Labor Relations Board is controlled by Unions and retail, medical and the restaurant industry are going to face these demonstrations over the next four years. Unions destroy, Obama destroys.
Why wait until December 26? In the world where most of us work, that's called job abandonment. He gave the employer no prior notice. He deserves none.
This idiot moron is angling to improve on 30 to 40 cents an hour after a year raise... for doing the same old thing, what a maroon.
The American Way is to do a BANG-UP job, whatever it is, to 100+% of your ability, and then, WITHOUT ANY RAISE WHATSOEVER, with high productivity and showing imagination and innovation in his current job duties, would then be PROMOTED to some job that would CATAPULT his wage UP MUCH higher than any raise could EVER do.
[works for govt workers - they must have at least 4 different ways to get more money, with COLA, merit increase, bonus, step increase, etc]
My sister says at least a half dozen employees walk out of Walmart where she works on an average day. Usually they’re spoiled teenagers mad that they’re expected to work.
He cited what protesters said were needs for both better pay and better health care coverage.
Economic ignorance on display. If you don't like working for minimum wage, go get a job that pays $100,000 a year. But wait.....you have no skills worth that kind of money to anyone. Life's a bitch. And another thing, you decide what's a fair wage for a days work. If you don't think it's fair, go work somewhere else for more money. Damn, we're back to that no marketable skills thing. An Obama voter for sure.
I saw some clown on the news carrying a sign saying “I DEMAND RESPECT!”
These idiots don’t even want to earn respect, they think its another “right” no matter how badly they behave.
Gas and food prices eat up their discretionary spending. Complain about that and see if the media will cover it.
This morning FoxNews tried to interview WalMart strikers.
All any of them would say was “talk to the green shirt”.
Zombies.
As someone who used to work in grocery store management and later worked some part time retail jobs to make ends meet when I was out of work or underemployed a few years ago and couldn’t get a job in my field (HR/payroll/general accounting), a good number of retail “workers” should count themselves lucky there is a federal minimum wage as a number of them really aren’t worth even that. That’s not to say all, but from what I observed a good number.
The protest is being moved from store to store in buses and only 1 employee from the store in the video joined them.
So who is paying for the buses?
Here is your pink slip...
If it wasn’t for Wal-mart, millions of ugly, obese, smelly,
stupid people, would never have a job.
Paid union trouble makers called salting.
•The union sends out a member/employee to apply for and get a job with the company, while concealing his/her union membership/employment. When the “salt” is hired, he/she usually openly tries to organize the other employees, and he/she may even picket the jobsite being worked on, claiming that the company is unfair to its employees. The “salt” normally ends up violating company rules until he/she is fired, or voluntarily quits. The union then files an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB, charging that the company discriminated against the salt.
http://www.fklaborlaw.com/articles/Union-Salting-Objectives.html
Salting is a labor uniontactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent oforganizing a union.[1] A person so employed is called a “salt”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(union_organizing)
"We're here not to bash Walmart, but to make Walmart a better place to work," said Jerry Synowicz, a Walmart employee,Riiiiight Jerry. And you work at Walmart why again? Maybe because it's they're the only company that would HIRE YOU! Or did you get like 50 offers of high paying corp gigs from the resumes you sent out but you picked Walmart because you're a 'people person'.
(and who says a getting BA in History, Majoring in Ancient Assyrian Poetry with a Minor in Sanskrit, was a waste of money --- you showed 'em, right!!)
So if these employees get their way and unionize how much of their hard earned hourly rate will go to the union? Will they make more or less?
Labor Relations Board hasn’t had the “time to rule on Friday’s ‘walkout’” - yet!
Thanks. The stories coming from those who either work for Walmart, or have relatives who do, are vastly different from the stories coming from the union organizers.
“You’re Fired!”
S-can the deadbeats. They obviously don’t want to work anyway.
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