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Wal Mart is indeed doing the same thing by making supervisors part time and lowering their pay, some time eliminating the position all together and splitting the hours between other associates.
My sense of the Walmart employment model is that it's all about intentional employee turnover. The expense to recruit, hire and train is less than the perceived cost of being a union shop.
If the supply of workers did not historically exceed the number of vacancies, Walmart would have to pay more.
If I were a young whippersnapper in need of a job with unlimited growth, I would likely target Walmart for employment and I say this as someone who rarely shops Walmart. There is always opportunity in chaos.
For manufacturing I agree.
For other white collar jobs it was the advances in technology that allowed them to be off shored.
The internet is what opened the door to white collar offshoring and that was mid 90's or so when speeds started to increase.
I saw it as early as the late 70's when technology in the " back office" began to have an impact on white collar jobs. It gained steam in the 80's and was robust in the 90's. Having lived through the Y2k hoax,,I knew the gloves were going to come off , going forward.
Technology was no longer a safe haven in the US when work could be performed elsewhere for less.
Thank you Harry, Nancy, & Hussein for keeping wages down while funneling trillions to your rich fat cat buddies on Wall Street....you've made me even richer while keeping the average man down.
Just more proof that you can't lift the poor by slamming the job creators.
I'm not talking about the .001% who have benefitted greatly by this regimes policies through taking advantage of the rising stock market.
Welfare programs have grown.
The very rich got richer.
The true working class and job creators have taken it on the chin due to this amateur and his policies.
Welfare programs have grown because private sector profits and productivity keeps rising because of stagnant wages, reduced benefits, globalization, and automation.
Thank you Harry, Nancy, & Hussein for keeping wages down while funneling trillions to your rich fat cat buddies on Wall Street....you've made me even richer while keeping the average man down.
Sometimes Obama is a fascist, sometimes he's socialist, and sometimes he's a corporate shill.
I didn't know the president was responsible for wages in the private sector...
Maybe you also don't know that the president makes lots of decisions that impact the economy and businesses. Read a little.
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Obama didn't raise taxes, he let the Bush tax cuts expire.
Yes, he did raise taxes. Lots of them. Do a little research next time.
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What regulations and restrictions have hurt the wages of working Americans?
Yes, lots of them do. His war on coal and opposition to the Keystone pipeline are just two examples. There are many many more. Obama hates the working class and loves to support initiatives that transfer wealth from the working class to his elite buddies.
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Didn't Obama unilaterally raise the minimum wage for Federal Contractors?
Obviously, that didn't help raise average wages, did it?
how on earth can people be this uniformed and expect to be taken seriously.
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