Posted on 05/21/2019 2:40:21 PM PDT by detective
For years, Walmart workers have attended the company’s annual shareholders meeting to call for higher wages, better benefits and more predictable schedules.
This year they’ll have someone new delivering the message on their behalf: Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The presidential candidate, who has repeatedly called on Walmart to improve its working conditions, is heading to Bentonville, Ark., on June 5 to introduce a shareholders’ proposal that would give hourly Walmart workers a seat on the company’s board.
“These workers need and deserve a seat at the table,” Sanders (I-Vt.) told The Washington Post. “If hourly workers at Walmart were well represented on its board, I doubt you would see the CEO of Walmart making over a thousand times more than its average worker."
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They won't Unionize...so they'll go after Walmart this way.
I think Bill Gates owns 6.5 million shares of Walmart.
The losers will be the former Walmart workers and the shoppers of limited means who will no longer be able to afford many necessities.
Hillary used to be on the board.
The company has become badly micromanaged from Bentonville since Sam died, and is beginning to run on inertia.
The invite didn’t come from the employees.
Wouldn’t be appropriate to introduce legislation that members of Congress are only allowed to have one house, worth 150 times of the appraisal value of the median home value in the US? In addition, congressional pension plans should be tied to the median value of the average retired US citizen.
Paycheck envy.Bernie has it bad.
Walmart workers looking like Walmart shoppers.
This just shows the intellectual level of Walmart employees, apparently. They see a nearly 80 year old commie who never earned an honest dollar in his life as their savior. Really sad.
Afterwards should be a little quiz. those who "got it" get employed, those who don't...buh bye.
If American taxpayers paying pompous ass commie senators that accomplish nothing and do nothing but loot the treasury were truly represented in Congress, I doubt you and your colleagues would be alive right now!!
Too bad.
All things considered, Walmart works pretty well.
............soooo....................
LET’S ALL GO AND SCREW IT UP!!
Jobs Comparison
Wal-Mart: 2.2 million employees globally, with 1.5 million in the US.
Bernie Sanders: 0
Clearly, Wal-Mart can manage without a lecture from a rotting communist.
I think Wal~Mart does profit sharing, competitive wages for hiring and offers health insurance from go etc. so, this joker Sanders, once again, is wrong.
If it wasn’t for Walmart several things would not have happened.
1. the massive distribution Network that Walmart had in place ensured that the areas around New Orleans and throughout Louisiana who are devastated by Hurricane Katrina would have never received ample supplies or relief during the entire. That that region was under extreme duress from the destruction caused by that hurricane.
2. Many towns which happened to succumb to a blight on employment because independent businesses can not carry the load of workers that Walmart does in many areas across the country. This has caused and created jobs for able and willing workers in areas where historically independent and small business is ruled and in many cases tended to only hire within family, relatives, or friends.
As a final note, the Sam Walton business construct completely changed the business model from only using from U.S. suppliers to purchasong ALMOST exclusively from the PRC.
But the employment of workers in areas where no other work exists continues to this day, and for that I have to applaud them. Not only do the stores operate with many employees, but there’s management both local and corporate, there’s Trucking both local and Interstate, there exists major distribution Networks in play here.
And the workers are paid a livable wage if they are full time. Of course we all know that companies hire part-timers in shifts rather than full timers and save on benefit packages. But wasn’t the AHCA created to help solve that disparity? And now a Socialist/Communist solution is considered as another bandaid?
I have to ask exactly which Walmart Centers or inviting the Communist Sanders to speak? Are they major urban area Walmart’s or flyover State Walmart’s?
As an exemployee of Walmart I’d rather work McDonald’s than work there again. Terrible employer.
FIRE THEM!!!
Old Sam Walton would have dealt with this properly.
His leftist idiot kids will likely swoon in ecstasy, then lick bernie’s feet.
As of 12/31/2018 Gates owns 11,603,000 shares of Walmart
valued at $1,080,819,000 or about 4.93% of his portfolio.
https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/bill-gates-stock-portfolio/
...which is the wonderful thing about a free economy. You get to choose who you want to work for and who you don’t. If the government is the only employer, you don’t get choices like this.
Went to a WalMart today and while there expressed my observation about some of the teen workers (males) on the evening shift who are “hiding out” in the isles at the back of the store just chit chatting with one another. Perhaps they need some “work ethic” training . . .the same ones I told to check the signs in the garden department. . .a quick in-service on knowing the difference between annuals and perennials perhaps is in order.
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