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 ...
It’s more like the bazooka was pointed by the union at those factory jobs, demanding they be paid more than they were worth—until the factories shut down and went out of business.
Walmart pays at a level reflective of the employee contributions and the competitive labor market. Those with the ability to upgrade their skills ought to do so—if only because we’re letting in so many unskilled immigrants looking for work every year.
PROBLEM: “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.
SOLUTION: Gather all of your friends together, pool your money and start your own Y’all Mart.....
Problem solved.-—
Great solution. Maybe then they will understand all the costs that go into a business before a profit is declared, and that there are people/organizations called investors who demand and deserve a return on their capital.....
It’s not all about “ where’s yo dolla “ to quote their esteemed leader....
I’m with you on this one. This is very low skill labor. If they want better jobs, it’s up to them to make an effort to improve their skills. Of course I’m actually mistaken. In Obama’s world, it’s up to US to take care of them regardless of their skills and/or effort.
Need a new verb. On Twitter you tweet someone
If you want to do the same thing to them as Hostess did you should Twinkie them or
Twink them :-)
The US economy grew like a weed on steroids in the 1950s and 1960s DESPITE those things.
Remember: everybody else’s industrial base had been bombed to scrap and/or they were in debt up to their neck.
And - more importantly - you guys still had a free country which was the envy of the world, and a population which didn’t look for handouts.
Now, not so much.
>>The US economy grew like a weed on steroids in the 1950s and 1960s when we had both of those things. So your point is<<
#1) The living wage is very recent and certainly was not part of the 1950’s or 1960’s — it is a dumb and antibusiness idea
#2) They make no sense except perhaps as small governors (there are a handful of laws that are reasonable — we passed reasonable quite some time ago).
#3) This isn’t the 1950’s. Get a grip on Reality
You really are quite the little socialist aren’t you?
I like a FReeper’s comment yesterday in a thread dealing with this situation.
They suggested a job fair be held at the same time the protest was being held.
I might add that the application desk be positioned across the parking lot from the protesters...see which side collects the largest group of people.
“It’s more like the bazooka was pointed by the union at those factory jobs, demanding they be paid more than they were worth—until the factories shut down and went out of business.”
Riiight. Because big corporations are weak bitches who have no leverage against those mean, nasty unions. Now what kind of cheese would you like with that whine? Like I said, they moved so they could pay some kid chicken feed, dump their sludge wherever they felt like it, and the American worker be damned.
>>In Obama’s world, it’s up to US to take care of them regardless of their skills and/or effort.<<
Apparently there are FReepers here who also like obama’s world.
Disappointing but not surprising. There are ignorant people everywhere (51% showed themselves recently).
Start your own company whiner. Let’s see how long you last.
Puhleeze. The world had recovered from WW2 by the mid-1950s. And most developed nations were buying their OWN stuff, not ours. They were protectionist, too.
Living standards are much higher than they were in the ‘50s and ‘60s—and global markets have a lot to do with that.
“The living wage is very recent and certainly was not part of the 1950’s or 1960’s — it is a dumb and antibusiness idea”
It may not have been called “living wage”, but it just “was”. That’s why someone even in an unskilled job was able to buy a new car, a modest home of his own, and even put a kid through college. A “living wage” in all but name.
We also didn’t need to buy so much stuff to be considered to have a high standard of living.....there weren’t many electronic gadgets, food wasn’t processed, it was usually made from scratch, and people didn’t eat out as much, for many in urban areas, a car wasn’t even a necessity.
Exactly...These people don't seem to realize that without good paying jobs for the masses, they would have sewers running thru their front yards...And what roads would they have to drive on???
And what one of these nuts would think they could take a plane flight to anywhere when the working people can no longer afford a plane ticket???
The unions created the wage and benefit structure that forced the non union companies to become competitive with their wages and benefits to find and keep employees, which ultimately became the American middle class...
As the American wages for the working middle class skyrockets, so does the 'educated' class of engineers and their like...In fact, there are so many 'educated' engineers working for McDonalds that these kinds of threads are getting funnier by the day...
Yes, and if people wanted to, they could make those same choices now.
Really? So that’s why some unskilled nebbish was still able to buy a home, a new car, and put a kid through college, often without his wife having to go to work? Just because we have better gadgets now than 50 years ago does NOT mean living standards are better.
Really? So that’s why some unskilled nebbish was still able to buy a home, a new car, and put a kid through college, often without his wife having to go to work? Just because we have better gadgets now than 50 years ago does NOT mean living standards are better.
I saw video of these idiots. I hope they get fired.
Such "employees" completely fail to see three important principles:
(1) Many, if not most, entry-wage hires are not worth what they are being paid until they have been trained and are no longer a cash drain, but have become a source turning a profit.
(2) If, after a reasonable time of trial, the employee is finally only earning his/her wages back and not expected to be contributing to profits far beyond the wage expense, he/she is an unprofitable servant, and needs to receive something extra with the next pay envelope: to wit, a pink slip.
(3) Both tenure and promotion goes to those who evidence gratitude through their performance, not to the ungrateful ones.
Capitalism is not a social security project, and the entry-level employee ought to be extremely thankful for the individual privilege to demonstrate his/her worth through trainability and adaptability for effective, profitable service.
(Clearly, government service does not seem to accept these three rules, and unionism works to defeat them.)
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