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Walmart workers walk off job during Black Friday sales in Milwaukee area
TMJ4 ^ | 11/23/2012 | WTMJ

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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To: tobyhill

Fire them all and there will be a thousand people standing in line to take each job.


41 posted on 11/23/2012 7:36:09 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: baddog 219

You never hear about unionized fatsos complaining about unfair salaries of their bossesssss!!!


42 posted on 11/23/2012 7:36:41 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepissed)
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To: tobyhill

Fire them all and there will be a thousand people standing in line to take each job.


43 posted on 11/23/2012 7:45:44 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: tobyhill

“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.”

...here’s my request/ Take a course in economics you stupid ass! Define “fair wage”. $10? $20? $100 per hour?


44 posted on 11/23/2012 7:49:47 AM PST by albie
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To: tobyhill

With 16% real unemployment it shouldn’t be hard to get replacement workers.


45 posted on 11/23/2012 8:04:24 AM PST by pfflier
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To: righttackle44
Break a union for Jesus.

HAHAHAHA! Quote of the day..

46 posted on 11/23/2012 8:06:34 AM PST by cardinal4
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To: tobyhill
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47 posted on 11/23/2012 8:09:58 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: Theo

This whole thing is a UNION CREATED NONSENSE!

Kmart opened its doors at 6AM on THANSKGIVING.. no one mentioned that....

I used to shop on thanksgiving morning for years, a regional store called AMES used to have its thanksgiving madness sale and opened on thanksgiving morning and was open all day with its “black friday” deals... my routine back then was go to AIMES do my shopping then from there go to my mothers for Thanksgiving Dinner.

This whole thing is NONSENSE, and just the unions trying to create a backlash where none existed.


48 posted on 11/23/2012 8:10:08 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Wiser now

Of course they are, if WalMart treated their employees as badly as the Unions claim do you think they would be as big as they are?

Employers can only get away with so much, yes, when the economy is bad they can get away with more than when it is good, but even there there is only so much they can do.

It is not in a companies best interest long term to treat employees like crap. Usually when you find stories of employees truly being abused especially in a large organization, its usually (not always, but far more often than not) a rogue manager than a systemic problem or policy.


49 posted on 11/23/2012 8:15:18 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: tobyhill

just waiting for Obama and the Dems to get involved ,they hate Walmart


50 posted on 11/23/2012 8:20:35 AM PST by molson209
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To: tobyhill

I have a stepson who had to work at Home Depot for awhile. He says that the attendents who work in the aisles would actually hide from cutomers so that they would not have to ‘work’. I assume that Wal-Mart workers do much of the same.


51 posted on 11/23/2012 8:26:00 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: cripplecreek
'I DEMAND RESPECT'

Danny H is on the picket line?

52 posted on 11/23/2012 8:27:43 AM PST by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: tobyhill
said Jerry Synowicz, a Walmart employee

I'm betting he was a temporary hire for the Christmas rush and last night was the first night he was supposed to work.

53 posted on 11/23/2012 8:28:23 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: tobyhill
People start at barely over minimum wage

Are they brain surgeons? No. They're unskilled labor and as such should be started at minimum wage. That Walmart starts them above minimum should be considered a good thing.

54 posted on 11/23/2012 8:31:58 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: P-Marlowe

In CAL “we” passed a bill in the state legislature to unionize home care workers and included family members who care for others in the family.

I am proposing to be the union czar for gardeners and babysitters for just a small annual salary of $250,000.


55 posted on 11/23/2012 8:33:21 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: tobyhill
The Black Friday Walmart walkouts are being orchestrated straight out of the White Hut. Van Jones has been planning them for four years.

Once Walmart goes down, the rest of the employers in the country will follow in short order.

Ubama is going to give the unions card-check, and the NLRB is going to force all employers to turn over the names and addresses of all their employees to the unions.

With these two tools, Trumka and his fellow travelers can forge the signatures of employees and unionize any company without the consent of the employer or employees.

And their first target is going to be Walmart and the hundreds of millions of dollars of union dues they will be able to extort for the Democrat campaign-finance slush fund.

Soon, all the workers in the entire country will be paying into the Democrat campaign-finance slush fund through forced union membership and forced union dues.

Labor unions are America's Communist Party.

56 posted on 11/23/2012 8:37:11 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Labor unions are the Communist Party of the USA.)
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To: morphing libertarian
In CAL “we” passed a bill in the state legislature to unionize home care workers and included family members who care for others in the family.

We crushed that one in Michigan.


57 posted on 11/23/2012 8:47:06 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: wny

**** We’re not asking for a lot. People start at barely over minimum wage, and only go up 30 to 40 cents per year.”***

And what is wrong with starting at minimum wage? When Walmart started, the “CHICKEN MEN” had this area in an economic stranglehold which paid starvation agriculture wages well below minimum wage. Walmart gave many the first taste of what a decent pay was.

Like so many now, kids leave high school and think they are management material with no work experience.


58 posted on 11/23/2012 8:47:57 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The problem is in the Baraqqi economy, where only fast food and retail jobs are available, the idiots somehow think these should provide a “living wage” for a family.


59 posted on 11/23/2012 8:51:12 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

that 30 or 40 cents per year is better than nothing in this economy.


60 posted on 11/23/2012 8:53:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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