Walmart workers striking.......?

[Loose]

when factoring in the fact that walmart has no benefits its even worse then the 7.15-8 they make more like 6 dollars per hour

 

[Trip]

I'm done.

You haven't made one logical post here. dikks and Walmart aren't going to start paying "livable wages" or whatever the hell that even means because you've made the decision to make a career in retail, which is impossible.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

no one here seeing the big picture.. this shyt is monumental, the fact that walmart employees have even managed to organized strike and are getting this kind of media coverage for it

walmart is a legend in union busting and keeping their workers in check..

y'all hear about the store in quebec that was on the verge of unionizing? the day before it was about to happen, walmart got wind of it and the next morning they shut the store down, just like that. fukk a union, everyone lost their job on the spot.. walmart won the case in court too, said it was for profitability reasons

shyt is absolutely disgusting brehs.. props to these workers.. more of this needs to happen

The man has you guys trained real good. You guys are foot soldiers, doing the ground work so corporate barons can continue to extract our collective wealth and pride. Sentiments like yours are 100% the problem.

For real. After 3-4 decades of declining wages, exponential increase in concentration of wealth at the top, crushing of unions, and exodus of jobs that pay livable wages, we have a scenario where the workers of the poster child of corporate greed and immorality, Wal-Mart, a company who is the largest employee in the U.S. and pays its workers garbage wages while providing them shytty benefits, massively pollutes the environment, and drives small business into bankruptcy, are finally striking and standing up for themselves.

The 6 Wal-Mart heirs hold more wealth than the bottom 42% of the country and most of their workers are on food stamps. This could be the start of a larger conversation and a larger movement that is pro-labor and pushing back against unfettered corporate monopoly. And these dudes are like "They work at Wal-Mart, who cares. Fire them."

 

[Higher Tech]

You haven't made one logical post here. dikks and Walmart aren't going to start paying "livable wages" or whatever the hell that even means because you've made the decision to make a career in retail, which is impossible.

You just don't understand logic.

It's cool dude.

You're right.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

There are zero skills needed to work in retail

You said retail jobs like Wal-Mart are meant to be temporary jobs for kids. And yet Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the nation. Again, what does that tell you?

 

[Phillyrider807]

I don't think no one is bytching about there is no "career" in Walmart. Everyone knows that. It's the fact that they get worked so hard for so little.No benefits is when your the number 1 retailer in the world.

 

[-InFeRnO-]

For real. After 3-4 decades of declining wages, exponential increase in concentration of wealth at the top, crushing of unions, and exodus of jobs that pay livable wages, we have a scenario where the workers of the poster child of corporate greed and immorality, Wal-Mart, a company who is the largest employee in the U.S. and pays its workers garbage wages while providing them shytty benefits, massively pollutes the environment, and drives small business into bankruptcy, are finally striking and standing up for themselves.

The 6 Wal-Mart heirs hold more wealth than the bottom 42% of the country and most of their workers are on food stamps. This could be the start of a larger conversation and a larger movement that is pro-labor and pushing back against unfettered corporate monopoly. And these dudes are like "They work at Wal-Mart, who cares. Fire them."

real shyt.. scust at these clueless idiots co-signing corporate america without realizing corporate america and the capitalists running shyt are enslaving pretty much every single one of us and taking a massive shyt on our quality of life

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Wal-Mart: America's True Welfare Queen | Benzinga

If America ever descends to hell in a handbasket, it will be Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) that imports the carefully crafted, four-cents-an-hour basket straight from a Chinese labor camp.

How can I be so sure? Because this corporate giant manages to be on the receiving end of both angles of the Food Stamp program – it is the largest reason why we need a Food Stamp program and yet it reaps the ultimate benefit of the program. Like Homer Simpson once said of alcohol, Wal-Mart is the cause of, and its own solution to, all life's problems. How can it be that it is both? Simple.

First, the benefits. Wal-Mart receives between 25 and 40 percent of all Food Stamp spending. Yes, you read that correctly. Up to 2 in 5 dollars spent by all Food Stamp recipients is spent at Wal-Mart.

Considering that the federal government spent approximately $72 billion on Food Stamps last fiscal year , Wal-Mart would have earned up to $28.8 billion in sales from the program alone. The company brought in $448 billion in sales last year, so this government program is clearly a big winner for them. Unfortunately, their win is our loss, at least as far as taxpayers go. You see, Wal-Mart is the reason why many of these people are on Food Stamps to begin with. Wal-Mart's low wages and purposeful underemployment keep their workers just rich enough to occasionally make rent and just poor enough to be eligible for public assistance like Food Stamps.

Let's see what happens to communities when Wal-Mart starts peeling off its nightie. According to the Winning Words Project, who studied Wal-Mart's effect on the economy, Wal-Mart's very existence has been a net loss for communities. Consider what they found.

Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages force employees to need approximately $420,000 per year, per store, totalling $2.66 BILLION annually in Food Stamps and other taxpayer assistance...to survive.
Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost the country HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars in payroll tax deductions for Federal, State, and Local taxes.
Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost our communities the ability to hire and retain important public service workers like firefighters, police officers, maintenance workers, and teachers.
Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost our communities with their increased need for those same public services they are underfunding.
Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages and lack of covered benefits cost taxpayers over $1.02 BILLION a year in healthcare costs.
Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost taxpayers as much as $225 MILLION in free and reduced price lunches for school-age children.
Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost taxpayers over $780 MILLION in tax deductions for low-income families.

Got all that? Wal-Mart purposefully underpays and under employs its workers, reaps the high profits of doing so, and then profits a second time as employees (and others crushed by the economy that the Wal-Marts of the world sunk) spend their welfare dollars. Talk about having your cake and eating it too! It's almost like maybe we should get off our collective rears and do something about this.

Under any sane policy, it would be illegal for a company to underpay its employees so it could benefit from their employees' welfare benefits. A normal person might look at such an arrangement and wonder when the CEO will be given the boot.

This is theft, graft – outright stealing and exploitation of the poor.

Then again, stealing a boatload of cash is only a felony for real people. As we all know, corporations are only people when they are buying elections. When it's time for accountability, the only phones anyone answers at Wal-Mart are in accounting. Well, bad accounting brought down Al Capone. Maybe gaming the numbers will do the same for Wal-Mart.

 

[kt773]

They should try and get a better job than Walmart. They aren't holding these people hostage. Retail work can be done by anyone, there's a reason it doesn't pay well. If you are depending on a retail job to pay your bills you're delusional.

bro sometimes life hits you hard, do you honestly think that SOME people deal with bullshyt because they want to? sometimes you have to deal with the cards that was dealt until something better comes along , remember everybody life is not gold and honey

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

*goes to walmart today*

*is just looking*

 

[Kang Deezy]

I'm not familiar with the day to day operations but I'm sure it isn't out of the realm of possibility to work up to 12 bucks an hour if you can show you're not there to be a mindless worker.

Absolutely. I was super motivated and actually started as a temp worker in Christmas of 08 making 8.40 an hour and within 3 years I was making over 40,000 a year after getting 3 promotions.

 

[Serious]

Damn I hate arriving at threads like this late....

I used to work in retail(almost 3years) making some $9.40/ hr. Working like 25-33 hours a week. At one point, I was given the opportunity become a manager but declined, because I've seen the crazy hours mangers work.

Literally 12 hour days, on call, and working back to back shifts, such as working from 4pm-1am then expected be back work the next day from 11am-8pm. Not to mention having to deal with with pissy customers and have battered relationships on the side.

They would have paid me like $14.50 an hour, but I never really liked job. I can't kiss someone ass and pretend to be nice for living. Although being 19 making $14/hr as manager would have looked nice on the resume. I merely worked part time while going to school(taking 6-12 units at a time). The hours were somewhat flexible.

My weekly check was like $200-250.

But my situation is a bit different from most people who worked there. All my income was disposable. The only bills I paid for school and car insurance. Most people who in retail have kids and "need" the job to survive. It was hard for me to take the job "serious" at times, because if the foregone knowledge I have about inequality and other things I want out of life, and what i will do in life. They seemed "rather" stuck.


The standard of living in LA is something else.

Gas can take a major toll on an individuals income in LA, where public transportation is horrible and having a car is mandatory.


After a strike in about 06 or 07, the company I worked for refurbished their contracts, so that new hires get less pay and slower raises (i remember being middle school when this happened.)

I had friends who had been with the company for over 5 years, yet were barely making $12 hr.

The income inequality in this country is real.

The best I thing I ever did was quit. The environment involved in retail can be very unstable realm which is bad for health.

Luckily I found another part time gig making $50 an hour while going to school.


I feel for some of these workers.

 

[Trip]

Absolutely. I was super motivated and actually started as a temp worker in Christmas of 08 making 8.40 an hour and within 3 years I was making over 40,000 a year after getting 3 promotions.

With benefits and depending where you're living that's pretty good. If you don't have a degree I'd say you did pretty damn well.

 

[Firefly]

I hate the Blame game, sue to win society here in America. Maybe because I watched my pops claw his way from the bottom and make it on his own. No handouts, no bytching and complaining about wages. He washed dishes and saved his money until he could start his own business.

It's why the Mexicans and other immigrants come to this country with nothing and scrub floors and do a lot of shyt we wouldn't even consider doing for next to nothing, below minumum wage and under the table. They are different from us because they could give a fucck about Jordans or looking fresh or stunting. They'll live 3 families to a 2 bedroom spot and each save $ and stack to get one person out, then another person out etc. Seen it wit my own eyes.

These folks complain and blame these corporations who do nothing but act like CORPORATIONS.................It's easy, go to school, excel, bust your hump keep your mouth shut and work. What do they want Walmart to do????????????????????


Because I tell you what, if they walk off the job tomorrow and make threats, there are folks out there who would jump at the opportunity to work for that wage.

I saw dude wit the dreads on TV this am and he was saying how bad it was and Walmart spies on him and all this other stuff. The interviewer asked him why he worked there and he had the dummy face. All my sympathy went out the window.

It's a bunch of folks who want a days off on the busiest shopping days and it spun out of their control.

I'm going to be a business owner soon and all I gotta say is if you have any complaints about anything, you can walk, freely. I'm doing what I have to do to make a profit and feed my family. You do what u need to do to feed yours.

 

[88m3]

I hate the Blame game, sue to win society here in America. Maybe because I watched my pops claw his way from the bottom and make it on his own. No handouts, no bytching and complaining about wages. He washed dishes and saved his money until he could start his own business.

It's why the Mexicans and other immigrants come to this country with nothing and scrub floors and do a lot of shyt we wouldn't even consider doing for next to nothing, below minumum wage and under the table. They are different from us because they could give a fucck about Jordans or looking fresh or stunting. They'll live 3 families to a 2 bedroom spot and each save $ and stack to get one person out, then another person out etc. Seen it wit my own eyes.

These folks complain and blame these corporations who do nothing but act like CORPORATIONS.................It's easy, go to school, excel, bust your hump keep your mouth shut and work. What do they want Walmart to do????????????????????


Because I tell you what, if they walk off the job tomorrow and make threats, there are folks out there who would jump at the opportunity to work for that wage.

I saw dude wit the dreads on TV this am and he was saying how bad it was and Walmart spies on him and all this other stuff. The interviewer asked him why he worked there and he had the dummy face. All my sympathy went out the window.

It's a bunch of folks who want a days off on the busiest shopping days and it spun out of their control.

I'm going to be a business owner soon and all I gotta say is if you have any complaints about anything, you can walk, freely. I'm doing what I have to do to make a profit and feed my family. You do what u need to do to feed yours.

It shouldn't be that way and it doesn't have to be. That's the point.