Walmart workers pushing for higher wages plan 1,600-store protest on Black Friday

Financial Post ^ | 11/14/14 | Nathan Layne

[SoFloFreeper]

A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning protests at 1,600 Walmart stores nationwide on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States.

The labour group, Our Walmart, said it had protested 1,200 to 1,400 Walmart stores last year on Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving holiday.

[SoFloFreeper]

Fire them.

[tomkat]

< yawn >

[Dixie Yooper]

Walmart needs to get large “HIRING, JOBS AVAILIBLE” signs to put up at each store as the strike starts, along with medial announcements in any areas a strike starts. When the strikers see large lines forming to take their place, it’s over regardless of what the strikers do.

[tinyowl]

"Our Walmart"

Evil

[maddog55]

Good idea and put in large Font:

EVERY PROTESTER HERE TODAY HAS PROVIDED AN OPENING AT WALMART FOR YOU.

[BCW]

WalMart's Response...

[grania]

OK. I promise not to shop at WalMart on Black Friday. Or any other day.

[chit*chat]

Shop online, Walmart online shopping is great, fast, accurate.

[fatnotlazy]

Chances are they're not Walmart workers, but some communist union organizing group. They should all be arrested and thrown into the slammer.

[SoFloFreeper]

LOL! Tears in my eyes from laughing!!!

[Fresh Wind]

I promise I won’t go near a WalMart on Black Friday (racist term).

That applies to every other store as well.

[RWB Patriot]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2013/12/01/retail-wages-are-market-wages-not-a-welfare-program/

[silverleaf]

skip Walmart this year

[silverleaf]

this!

[Ann Archy]

DUMBASSES.

[Ann Archy]

WHAT??? WHY??? WalMart is trying to keep from having unions, which are just THUGS.

[Sooth2222]

"The labour group, Our Walmart, said it had protested 1,200 to 1,400 Walmart stores last year on Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving holiday."

...but nobody noticed. So they hired a PR firm this year.

(I have worked jobs much, much worse than working at WalMart could possibly be, and for much, much lower wages. If you don't like your job, or think you aren't being paid enough, the solution is to find a better job. Or make your own job.)

[silverleaf]

Because I choose not to walk past a group of fugly ignoramuses who don’t understand economics 101. You insult the customer and they don’t shop, No customers means no jobs.

D.Oh.

Walmart should not have hired them to begin with.

[Ann Archy]

Oh, for God’s sake....you are too thick to discuss this.

[silverleaf]

Oh, I know. I should be so lucky as to be among the smart people shopping at Walmart on black Friday