Not exactly great. You have to be an employee for 20 years to get the 1,000 dollars. And the raise is beginning employment from 9 to 11 dollars, but quite a few already make that and more. It’s be better to say EVERYONE gets a 1.50 raise to make it equitable. I get that it is cool that they are throwing out crumbs but let’s be honest about it.
There are plenty of warehouse jobs around here 13 dollars an hour or more to start and I heard the local Aldi hires people to stock their shelves for 12 dollars an hour.
Walmart folks need to keep up with competition but it does seem like some good news.
The old folks used to call that sort of talk, 'looking a gift horse in the mouth.'
They could have done nothing and spiffed the shareholders and screwed the employees.
They didn’t.
Not good enough for you I guess.
Walmart hires people who could not work anywhere else. McDonalds feeds people nobody else will feed.
And yet, they are still not doing enough. It is very, very difficult to run a business that size and do the right thing, when Uncle Sam is basically compelling you to screw over everybody you care about.
I once made one cent a bale for hauling hay in the Midwest July/August heat. This was a beginning job. Most people that work at Walmart are either entry level workforce or retired people. Any others are simply workers that never developed a skill set. I think Walmart is a great company with the best customer service of any chain.
Better than a poke in the eye. This is a company with more than 2 million people. What should it do? Spend all its revenue just to appease your sensibilities about these things?
Maybe you’d like it better in Cambodia where everyone gets a bowl of rice a day. That’s equitable.
Too funny.....
“throwing out crumbs “
Seems you’ve been reading the DNC talking points since the word ‘crumbs’ is the talking point they are using.
“Not exactly great.”
Not exactly ‘crumbs’ either.
Did you pay thousands of people $1,000 lately? Didn’t think so.
The exact argument against raising the minimum wage, those that have worked long and hard and earned more don’t move up. I’d like to see companies raise everyone the same amount that makes less than x.. let’s say 75k a year. I’m just picking a number year but let’s be honest the higher you go the less that an equal raise matters and the higher you go up the less they need it. I do feel bad for those workers that have been there 10 years make 12 bucks an hour and get nothing out of this deal as an hourly wage.
This is WalMart. They screw vendors. They screw employees. They fall all over themselves for customers and the PRC. It’s what they do.