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sounds like it is time to support walmart and other retailers and increase their bottom line. walmart has been sued, but the plaintiffs have generally lost their cases against walmart. most of the crap against walmart is spouted by the unions because they cant get the employees to unionize. if working conditions were truly that bad at walmart, the employees would have unionized years ago.
Yeah, that's why they don't unionize. Because it's such a great job.
It has nothing to do with them firing people who attempt to organize and that constant threat hanging over their heads, right.
Anything other funnies from right wing la la land?
I haven't set foot in a Walmart or a Sears in more than 10 years. I refuse to give either of them my business. Also, I don't do the Black Friday thing.
I never shop at Walmart either. I was glad to see that working people are taking action. When the company is unionized there will be labor protections in place and they won't be able to attack their own employees.
Also every one of those non union employees pretending to be in a union who plan to not work friday should be fired. I think what we will be seeing is a bunch of union turds running around pretending to be walmart employees screaming about how evil walmart is etc. etc. etc.
I haven't set foot in a Walmart or a Sears in more than 10 years. I refuse to give either of them my business. Also, I don't do the Black Friday thing.
I have no objection to your including Sears in your personal boycott or in this thread, but I am curious to know what your beef with Sears is.
'Walmart earned $16 billion last year (it just reported a 9 percent increase in earnings in the third quarter of 2012, to $3.6 billion), the lion's share of which went instead to Walmart's shareholders -- including the family of its founder, Sam Walton, who earned on their Walmart stock more than the combined earnings of the bottom 40 percent of American workers.
Meanwhile, about half of Wal*Mart's employees earn so little that they qualify for food stamps. Isn't capitalism wonderful?
If you choose to work at Walmart, you are choosing to work when they require it (and they can probably request a different shift if they don't want to work a certain day).
In a lot of places there is no option BUT to work at Walmart. Not enough money to afford to move somewhere else, so to stay off food stamps and welfare, you get desperate and work for the Waltons.
Joke is on you though, because you only get 30 hours a week, just under the minimum point where the company has to give you health care. Oh, and "full time" employees are some of the best paid around... but they are mostly managers. So you have to settle for a few cents above minimum wage.
Yep! Lots of people "choose" to work at Walmart. If the company was such a great place to work, high wages, full health care, flexible shifts, then why would the employees be striking?
And you know what the WORSE part of this is? These employees have pretty much accepted all the other bad parts of Walmart. All they want is their Federal Holiday off. They don't want to have to go into work at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
If you choose to work at Walmart, you are choosing to work when they require it (and they can probably request a different shift if they don't want to work a certain day).
In most cases if you "CHOOSE" to work at Wal-Mart you have extremely limited employment options.
They know it and they know it and they leverage it against their employees with oppressive employment policy.
I sometimes wonder if liberals understand that the emergence of online competitors, such as Amazon, are squeezing the big box stores and forcing them to cut costs even lower and, in some cases, extend hours. I wonder how many liberals who complain about the big box stores wages and benefits merrily shop online.
I wonder how many of those who boycott Walmart merrily shop online.
I sometimes wonder if liberals understand that the emergence of online competitors, such as Amazon, are squeezing the big box stores and forcing them to cut costs even lower and, in some cases, extend hours. I wonder how many liberals who complain about the big box stores wages and benefits merrily shop online.
I wonder how many of those who boycott Walmart merrily shop online.
I'm not a liberal. Keep on assuming... I very rarely shop online.
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Sears?
