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Walmart Voluntarily Increases Minimum Wage to $10 Per Hour For Workers
Townhall ^ | Feb 19, 2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/19/2015 4:07:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Today, Walmart announced that by 2016 the minimum wage paid to workers in its stores will be increased to $10. In other words, the company has voluntarily raised wages, not because the government or labor unions forced them to, but because they think it's the best thing for business.

"Beginning in April, Walmart U.S. will increase its starting rate to $9 an hour or higher. By February 2016, all current associates will make $10 an hour or higher. Additionally, Walmart is piloting an onboarding and training program that will create clear career paths for associates so they know what is expected of them in order to move from entry level positions to jobs with more responsibility and pay $15 an hour or more," a statement released by Walmart Thursday says. "Walmart's new associate initiatives were announced in conjunction with the company's fourth-quarter and fiscal year-end 2015 earnings results. Walmart reported fourth quarter underlying earnings per share of $1.61. The company's fourth quarter U.S. comp sales increased 1.5 percent, while consolidated revenue for the full fiscal year reached $485.7 billion."

Research Director at the Employment Policies Institute Michael Saltsman...

"Walmart's decision to increase its store minimum wage to $10 an hour exemplifies how wages rise in a free economy: by choice, not by government mandate. Just because a $10 minimum wage is the right choice for Walmart, however, does not mean it should be mandated for all other businesses, regardless of industry or size," The rash of recent small business closures in San Francisco as a consequence of the city's recently-passed 36 percent minimum wage hike highlights the folly of raising wages by fiat."

Not surprisingly, pro-labor union groups still aren't satisfied.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: minimumwage; walmart
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To: donna

“Probably trying to hire English-speakers. “

Actually, many of the second-gen illegal aliens HATE labor. Won’t work.


21 posted on 02/19/2015 5:51:27 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: SunkenCiv

beginning of the end of walmart. Just as when McDonalds caved to the left and ruined its french fries and starting serving salad.


22 posted on 02/19/2015 5:59:53 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You may be right.
Retail stores isn’t like making automobiles.
The cap investment isn’t that big.
Competitors are many and nimble.


23 posted on 02/19/2015 6:01:46 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Increase of pay means an increase in the number of people willing to work at the job.

Typically, when a new W-M Super Center opens, they hire about 300 people but have 10,000 or more applying for the jobs - at current wages.

24 posted on 02/19/2015 6:45:11 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
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To: Qiviut
I can also get a parking place fairly close to the doors.

Get a fat person decal, oops, I mean a handicapped decal and park up real close, less walking and those parking spaces are so wide, you'll cut down on the dings your car gets, as a bonus, you can ride around in the store in a cool fat person cart, being rude to everyone else.

25 posted on 02/19/2015 6:51:47 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
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To: Graybeard58

No thank you. I’m neither fat nor handicapped so I’ll leave those spaces for people who are. Generally, I’m not a rude person, either.


26 posted on 02/19/2015 9:15:48 PM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: SunkenCiv

FWIW Wal Mart has zero employees who make “minimum” wage. They always pay their employees more than the going minimum wage in the State.


27 posted on 02/19/2015 10:19:16 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: fatnotlazy

If you ever watch daytime TV during the week (say, on Presidents Day), you see the commercials that people at home all day are bombarded with. If you aren’t being encouraged to sue somebody by some underemployed lawyer, you watch these job training commercials that are competing with each other to get you qualified for the best paycheck in the shortest amount of time (though they don’t go into price much). The message is that unskilled people can transform themselves into the middle class if they take a course for a month (and these aren’t computer programming courses - more like medical billing or dental assistants).

The grim reality is that this country has a lot less “good” jobs than it used to have, and many of them are being filled by foreigners trafficked here to fill them for less.


28 posted on 02/20/2015 3:40:03 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oatka

The problem with these “welfare to work” programs is that the people often lack basic job skills; they are a constant source of tension with real workers. For many, welfare was to be the career (and pregnancy in high school was a key factor in that); actual learning never fit in the plan.

Seeing them attempt to work is very disheartening; I could imagine what they feel like. The inferiority complex it produces inevitably leads to lashing out...


29 posted on 02/20/2015 3:43:07 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: donna

In my area they don’t need English speakers; most Americans have left, and few of those remaining shop at Wal-Mart. NJ is a sanctuary state not because we need workers, but because without the mass of illegal Hispanics and Asians much of the state (most of the northeastern part, with the highest taxes) would be a ghost town.

We encourage illegals to settle here so that our schools and Wal-Marts stay full, and simply give them Americans’ tax money to ease them in. I’ve seen two billboards in my area, completely in Spanish, driving home the point that “you may qualify for a subsidy”; buying health insurance isn’t even suggested.


30 posted on 02/20/2015 3:47:01 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: P-Marlowe

Thanks P-M, the entire economy would be in better shape if companies like WalMart would just hire the mob to rid us all of the self-serving union goons.


31 posted on 02/20/2015 5:20:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Qiviut
No thank you. I’m neither fat nor handicapped so I’ll leave those spaces for people who are. Generally, I’m not a rude person, either.

My 94 year old arthritic mother refuses to use an electric cart while shopping, preferring to lean on a regular cart. She says that she doesn't want people to think she's lazy.

32 posted on 02/20/2015 5:34:18 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I think Wal Mart should adopt the Chinese labor model here at home. Erect barracks for the workers and feed them also. Give them each a Walmart only redeemable gift card instead of pay. We could ring every last once of if these fools.


33 posted on 02/20/2015 5:59:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Qiviut

7:30-8??? It’ll be a cold day in hell when I like Walmart enough to get over there at that time to avoid everyone else. lol


34 posted on 02/20/2015 6:13:20 AM PST by sheana
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To: sheana

We’re fortunate to have a new Walmart, close by, that doesn’t get crowded except for weekends. If I’m there by noon, I can usually park in one of the front spaces.


35 posted on 02/20/2015 6:17:42 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

I don’t shop at Walmart because ours are all overrun with third worlders. I could probably shop there if I got there at 8am but they have nothing I need that badly. lol


36 posted on 02/20/2015 6:26:01 AM PST by sheana
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To: sheana

7:30-8??? It’ll be a cold day in hell when I like Walmart enough to get over there at that time to avoid everyone else. lol

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I’m a morning person so I’m up & at ‘em anyway ... W-mart is also the closest store (& the cheapest) or I’d be at one of the other stores as soon as they opened.


37 posted on 02/20/2015 6:27:43 AM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: kearnyirish2
The inferiority complex it produces inevitably leads to lashing out...

I have seen many of these people in the past. They not only don't have an inferiority complex they have a superiority complex. They think they should be treated like gold as if they were the store manager not a new hire at the bottom of the ladder.

They think being asked to mop their area is "disrespecting" them. They also think everyone who is successful has been lucky not realizing that the harder one works the "luckier" they tend to get.

38 posted on 02/20/2015 6:47:11 AM PST by Eaker (You are really amazing Eaker. - Swordmaker 02/14/15)
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To: kearnyirish2
Same in my neighborhood in Phoenix. I'm the white minority at the grocery store and the flyers on my door have Spanish first or entirely.

Of course, the future: Phoenix has 8-mosques that I know of.

39 posted on 02/20/2015 9:37:05 AM PST by donna (Science is the study of God)
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To: JSDude1; TexasFreeper2009

Thanks!


40 posted on 02/20/2015 2:12:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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