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Striking at WalMart
I turn on the local news and see that walmart workers are striking in Milwaukee this morning.. These people must think that because Obama won he's got their back on this.
I am going to laugh when they all lose their jobs. Don't they know how easy it is to replace them? Merry Christmas Walmart employees. |
They must have been smoking hash last night.
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I wish all of them would go on strike. Wal-Mart workers’ reliance on public assistance due to substandard wages and benefits has become a form of indirect public subsidy to the company. In effect, Wal-Mart is shifting part of its labor costs onto the public.
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+1 :thumbsup |
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and besides, that logic is ridiculous, so walmart provides millions of jobs, and somehow people manage to label them as the bad guy, wtf? no one is forcing people to take on these jobs, if they don't want to stock shelves for $7/hr maybe they should get some skills so they could get a better paying job? |
Walmart is a job for a high school kid. It isn't a career. They only get customers via price. It's not like they can attract customers through store ambiance. People who want to raise wages at Walmart are the same ones who want Hooters to also hire 70 year old women with bad teeth and a mastectomy to serve beer and wings. Walmart isn't the problem. People shopping there and allowing them to put mom and pop stores out of business to get a few dollars In savings are the problem. Every dollar you spend is a vote, use your money to get what you want while keeping local businesses healthy and your community will thrive. Walmart won't raise wages, but people don't need to shop there either.
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When I was 17 I got paid $2.35 in 1972 (Union Wages) working part time in a discount store -- that would be $12.87 in 2011. (Shows you how bad inflation (the hidden tax) has been.) |
walmart should be forced out of business....then we could go back to nice stores...and have nice products, not always made in the cheapest place.
i personally never shop there anyway maybe time to do something with my domains madincan and madebycdn |
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You don't think they would have gone on strike if Mitt won? |
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We had a local family owned market that was here for like sixty years. The entire community was sad when they closed, and then furious when Wal Mart opened up a "neighborhood grocery" in it's place. Then reality hit us. The family owned business hired mostly family members, and everyone else who worked there was paid pennies and not given health benefits. The store was rather large - taking a small city block - was sixty years old and in disrepair. The prices were high, and the store served mostly older people who couldn't make the trip to grocery store on the other side of town. Now instead we have a professionally run business that has only been open a few months and has donated well over $100k to local charities, including my kid's sports team - the old store never donated to us even though we asked every year and two of their kids played football for us. Say what you want about Wal Mart, but we went from a old crappy store with high prices that was usually empty to a new bright and clean store with low prices that has a full parking lot every day - and gives back to our community. |
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What a shitty company. |
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So, your don't mind that you tax money is subsiding a profitable corporation's workers low wages. I guess it is better than eating the people that are only capable of doing unskilled labor. :upsidedow |
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So there is a guy in the White House that you feel isn't working in your best interest. You think he cares nothing about your "plight". Imagine that. :upsidedow |
i was away for a week and that Obama/Romney thing is still going on? :-/
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As far as the nice new location, just wait till walmart moves to a newer store and leaves behind a huge empty building which they have done in every city nationwide. |
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and no one says "eat them", they should be trained so they become capable of doing slightly more productive work than just stocking shelves... it's only a matter of time before we create robots to do that, or workout how to train monkeys to do those jobs... |
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America is full of hard working ordinary people that would love to have better jobs but need to support their families with whatever they can find. These are the ones walmart uses. I personally know a woman that's an assistant manager in a Ky. location. She has been there since they opened 20 some years ago. She makes less that $15. an hour. Worse she won't be getting any bonuses for years as the expensive repair work on a huge faulty retaining wall on the property is being assessed as operating costs for hers store. Any excuse to lower labor costs is walmarts policy. |
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I don't want to imagine where those trained monkey garbage collectors will toss my garbage can lids ... |
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I have met countless "assistant managers" that make $10 an hour. No benefits. No bonuses. Your argument is with the retail business, not Walmart. |
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Now there is one man. The driver. The truck as an arm. The driver pulls up alongside the can, lowers the arm, grabs the can. Job is done. Fast, efficient, less expensive. I do not subscribe to the idea that we need to stymie innovation and efficiency so that we can give people low-end jobs. I subscribe to the idea that we need to train our people better, so they can do better, using their brains. As much as people drive me crazy, they are not idiots. We can become a better society when we stop expecting so little from our people and start pushing them to reach their full potential. |
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the ironic thing about all this is, people want to take more and more money out of education, grants, scholarships, etc yet want everyone to somehow be magically skilled at whatever jobs happen to be plentiful at the time. you gotta get them educated while they are young or else, they're doomed. try training a 50 year old guy who was doing the same thing for the past 30 years. they don't take to it well. if society wants a skilled workforce, they have to help out a bit. |
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They expect the new store will pay $3mil in city taxes in the first year. I doubt the original market made that in a year, no less paid more than $1mil in taxes. I doubt they made $1mil. So this old store had two of their kids on our football team, yet couldn't find it in their heart to donate $100. At the same time Wal Mart came in and donated $20k to our team - our biggest sponsor. We have a family here who was very involved in our community - you know the type. Their three kids were on all of the sports teams, after school events, and they were on the PTA and took part in our sports leagues, etc etc etc. The perfect all American family. Three years ago their high school son committed suicide. What did the old rainbow market do? Nothing. This family started a suicide awareness charity which is partially combined with another local school charity, and Wal Mart found out about it and made a huge donation to them as well. I understand that Wal Mart has a public relations team that comes into the community and figures these things out and makes a big splash, but they've done more in three months than the old store they replaced has done in forty years. |
I'm just amazed that Walmart pays so little.. I'm not sure if it's legit or not, but I just read an article that said the average Walmart Employee makes only $8.81/hr.
My stepmother and her daughter both worked at Target, in fact my step mother retired from there about 3 years ago. While it wasn't a great sum of money I know she was making somewhere around $17 or $18/hr. Maybe a little more I'm not sure. I've always shopped at Target over Walmart just because Target always seemed like a cleaner store and has a little bit better stuff in most cases. I think I'll continue shopping at Target when ever I need something from a Dept store, because at least they pay their employees, give them benefits and so on. I'll pay a little more to shop at Target just for that reason. |
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Walmart knows that the #1 expense of any business is EMPLOYEE SALARY. Therefore they routinely only hire part time people (don't even have to pay health care) and temporary employees.
By the way, to immediately decide that a striking person is because of Obama is... well I won't even say what it is. Lets just all decide that the president of the united states has nothing whatsoever to do with this and live our lives. |
There is a solution if you don't want to work at Wallmart. Don't work at Wallmart.
The market is the market. If people weren't willing to work for so little, they would have to raise wages. It's a zero talent job for uneducated and unskilled people and represents the lowest of the low in retail. Just like fast food or any other low wage job for unskilled workers, t is supposed to be a stepping stone to something better. Not a career. |
Yeah, just don't work there. It's not their fault that you work there.
This is of course why UNIONS were created and formed what we call the middle class in America, but fuck it. Just quit, you idiots. |
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What are the numbers on that? I've known a lot of people who worked at WalMart over the years who would come out on weekends and see me playing in my band at bars. They weren't on "public assistance". Doesn't WalMart have to at least pay minimum wage? Jesus, people get a job and STILL want to be coddled? I don't get it. I played in bands (never had a "real" job) and we traveled all over the country from 1978 to the mid 1990's. A GREAT week would be $400 for each player. But an average week was a hundred bucks. We had a 5 piece band and 3 man road crew. We stayed 4 to a motel room and unless you found a girl to feed you, we ate bologna sandwiches. But we made it. And never ONCE asked for any "public assistance". I'd say the people working at Walmart have it made compared to what we did. And we didn't get days off...we played (and drove from town to town) 7 days a week, every week. Anyway...do you have a link to the statistics on Walmart employees needing "public assistance"??? I was unaware that folks who had jobs could even do that. |
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And if you think about it, $17 an hour ain't jack - what's that, $40k a year? |
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"Green told the crowded church how in her tenure with Wal-Mart, she's received two raises and is now a manager. She makes $9 an hour ($1 above the laughably-low California minimum wage). She pulled from her pocket three cards she claimed most Wal-Mart employees at her store have: a 10-percent Wal-Mart employee discount card, her employee ID and her EBT card (what used to be called food stamps). ' Read more: The Herald-Sun - Let s kick Wal Mart off welfare http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_s...rt-off-welfare ------------- -------------- --------- A 2012 article but quoting a study from 2004 that by now has gotten much worse. In 2004 Walmart workers’ reliance on public assistance programs cost California taxpayers $86 million annually "The U.C. Berkeley Labor Center crunched the numbers in 2004 and found that Walmart workers’ reliance on public assistance programs cost California taxpayers $86 million annually. The families of Walmart workers used 38 percent more non-health benefits—food stamps, subsidized school lunches—than the families of employees of other large retailers." http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pres...rt_mar12.shtml Figure in these assistance programs and then think if anyone saved money shopping at the nations largest retailer. . |
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Also you were doing that with the hope of becoming a star so it was sacrifice.The guys in Van Halen lived on catsup and hot water. No one works at walmart with the hope of being star. its the hope to survive. Especially if you are in your 40's or 50's and no one else wants you. |
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Anyone not looking at it in this way is deceiving themselves. |
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As far as "hope to survive", isn't that being a little melodramatic? It's a job, plain and simple. And a lot of folks who work there LOVE it at Christmas because they have employee discounts. Most of the people I see working at Walmart are my age or older. And most of the women working the checkout are married and their husband's have jobs too. Just saying...there are a lot of people in this country who are unemployed and would love to have that Walmart job. |
This is the 49th post and I'm still trying to figure out what Obama has to do with strikes since they existed long before him.
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Has a wife and child. Our tax dollars paid the rent for their home to live in in Seattle. AND flew his wife and daughter to Germany and pays for their housing there too. They are having a blast and send me postcards from all over Europe (they have been sightseeing at every opportunity). They are living a great life. He actually went into the military in 2008 because of the horrible economy (he was a carpenter). Now his family is taken care of. They are seeing the world together, and they all have health benefits, etc. Of course, we the taxpayer are footing the bill for it all. I love them, and I'm happy that they are living a great life. But I think it's WRONG for taxpayers to foot that bill. (Also, did you know that our own soldiers don't even guard their facilities? It's all outsourced to local companies. Again courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer) |
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