Posted on 11/28/2014 2:16:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON -- Dirk Rasmussen had Friday off and could have slept in if he wanted to. Instead, the Maryland resident and Teamster rose early and drove to downtown Washington, eager to join a post-Thanksgiving protest against Walmart.
"Our local [union] president encouraged us to take part," said Rasmussen, 58, who works in a lumber and building-supply warehouse. "I raised eight children on a Teamsters benefit package and Teamsters wage. I'm a firm believer in collective bargaining, and I'm very concerned about the security of this next generation."
Black Friday may be most famous for doorbuster shopping deals, but among progressives it's becoming a regular holiday for labor demonstrations. Friday marked the third consecutive year of scattered but highly visible protests against Walmart. Demonstrators, along with an unknown number of Walmart strikers, are calling for better pay and scheduling practices from the world's largest retailer....
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The “protests” probably consisted of one foaming-at-the-mouth Bolshevik and one old drunk lady who thought there were going to be donuts.
Highly visible because the media, notified of the times and locations of the protests, obligingly dispatches crews to the scene to tape close-cropped views of the "crowd" of fifteen or twenty paid demonstrators (while ignoring a crowd twenty times as large a few blocks away protesting Common Core or some other less favored cause).
I normally avoid big stores on Black Friday like the plague, but, having heard on Thursday of planned protests at Wal-Marts, went a few blocks out of way to dash into one to pick up some odds and ends. No protesters in sight. Big mobs of shoppers, though.
Didn’t they hear? Their savior just made 5 million legal amigos ready and willing to take the job at the current rate.
What’s that they are wearing on their heads? An inverted planter?
I just can’t wait till they replace all accountants, and almost all the office workers jobs are shipped off shore since the majority can be done for a tenth of the price they are paying now and business and profits will skyrocket too. Everything will streamlined and there will be no need for any office workers in the future.
And would those protestors like fries and a drink with that?
Devo always kept me in amazement.
The Costco I go to took their self-checkout lanes out a couple of years ago. And even stores like Home Depot who have them also have one or two people keeping an eye on the people using it.
Ahhh, I see where the money for Ferguson is coming from - the Unions. Conveniently, the thugs have joined the Union thugs who have joined the $25/hour thugs. Isn’t that just sweet? Perhaps we should outlaw unions.
I'm pretty sure the self-checkout is where Home Depot had their big security breech. Someone at a self-checkout installed some kind of software. I think it was an inside job - someone who had access to the software key.
I personally never liked self checkout. Its OK for one or two items,,but,,if you have a cartful of things, I appreciate he employee ringing it up and bagging it for me.
And I’m honest, but always wondered about shoplifters with self checkout. It would be so easy to “miss” scanning a few items here and there in a full cart.
Ofcorse this Union guy wants the minimum wage increased it means his Union wage will increase. Then when the costs of goods increases then that increase in pay won’t make much a difference.
many items, not the cheap stuff, have tags that will set off the alarms, the self-check thing also negates these tags or something... you do need employees to get those tags off clothes, do they still have those things
thats the infamous DEVO -[ an 80’s rock and roll band ] Headgear
One thing I noticed about the checkouts at Costco is that it seemed like every third person screwed something up so the scanner would lock up, the flashing light would go on, and some employee would have to come and fix things. I imagine it was almost as resource intensive as a regular checkout line was.
Walmart reported 22,000,000 shoppers had sopped in their stores by this morning. Looks like the union guys should have stayed in bed.
I’ve notice that with self checkout too. They still need people working there to be available to fix the checkout when things get messed up.
I’ve also noted in supermarkets, when buying alcohol, the scanner stops and then you have to wait for someone to come over and OK your alcohol purchase.
My other complaint about self checkout is that in many cases it takes longer than traditional checkout. Many people scan the items, do their credit or debit card, get receipt, and then and only then start to bag up their items. My observation is that this process is a lot faster with employees doing this. That said, self check does work OK and quickly if people just have a handful of items.
Three “C” words to run from:
Communism
Collective
Comprehensive
Alternative: Walmart will increase the minimum wage to $9 per.hour, for current employees and new hires. However new hires are required to have the minimum of a bachelors degree, from an accredited college for any position.
some employee would have to come and fix things.
I shop often at Fresh and Easy where checkout stations are all self checkout. 90% of the time something happens that requires assistance, usually in the scanner process and reading the bar codes correctly.
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