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Walmart Workers Protest Over Compensation At Oakland Store [Hostess Twinkie Them!]
CBS San Francisco ^ | November 21, 2012

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: thugs; union
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To: teflon9; All

Wrong.... There was no competition from Europe and Japan until the late 60’s and early 70’s.


201 posted on 11/23/2012 6:14:04 AM PST by KevinDavis (And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
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To: goat granny

Right about the limited lifespan of cars back in the day. In 1965 my dad had a 57 Chevy (the sort of car collectors fight over nowadays). These days 8 years for a car is no big deal; back then it was different. One day in ‘65 I stepped out of that car (pink and white, cool colors), and stepped on the rocker panel. Car was so eaten by rust that entire rocker panel came right off (and I weighed all of 60 lbs or so back then). Remember my dad saying once car hit 100K miles, it was no good. Gremlin was probably early ‘70s; AMC had the Pacer back then too, it looked like a greenhouse on wheels. You’re right about homes, they were crazy cheap back then.


202 posted on 11/23/2012 6:14:30 AM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: KevinDavis

Well, Volkswagen beetles—maybe the first subcompact—were all over the place in the 1960s (which I remember all too well), ditto for VW microbuses, that were common even in the early 60s as the first minivans, and became iconic as hippy transport later in that decade. And even in the 1960s Japanese transistor radios were almost a cliche, and I have a late-60s Panasonic table radio in my office. Makes a lot of static when you turn it on, but works great otherwise. Don’t want to forget my dad’s Grundig-Majestic cabinet AM/FM/SW with turntable hi-fi, either. He got that around 1957. And I suspect your average home in Europe had radios and TVs made by companies like Grundig, Phllips and Telefunken (and in Japan Sony and Panasonic). Don’t think Zenith, Philco and Magnavox penetrated those markets. Too many trade barriers plus national pride.


203 posted on 11/23/2012 6:34:31 AM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: teflon9; All

So what shall we do?? Tell people what to buy?? I’m going to be getting a Nissan real soon. No more Ford, no more Chrysler, and I refuse to buy a GM car.. You can’t live in the past and you can’t turn the clock back..


204 posted on 11/23/2012 8:25:42 AM PST by KevinDavis (And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
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To: KevinDavis

I wonder if Walmart would go Galt if they cannot hold back the unionization efforts of Van Jones


205 posted on 11/23/2012 8:34:32 AM PST by dc27
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To: KevinDavis

No probs. I drive a Camry (made in KY). Most “Japanese” cars are made in the US, anyhow.


206 posted on 11/23/2012 8:53:07 AM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: dc27; All

They should..


207 posted on 11/23/2012 8:56:36 AM PST by KevinDavis (And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
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To: central_va
The one in front on the right, I’d hit it.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

208 posted on 11/23/2012 1:27:01 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: teflon9

Thanks is was a Pacer I had not a Gremlin...It had the best seat of any car. The front windshield seems to be part of the roof. It was like being in the womb again...but I loved it..


209 posted on 11/23/2012 3:52:48 PM PST by goat granny
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