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... [MOD EDITED] trade unions have done most of the mudslinging. ... [MOD EDITED] For years, now, they've campaigned against Wal-Mart, for reasons that may have more to do with money than compassion for the working poor. If more than one million Wal-Mart employees in the United States could be induced to join a union, by my calculation they'd be compelled to pay more than half-billion dollars each year in dues.
I think he is absolutely right - Walmart is providing jobs and stimulus to the economy. This company is vital to the working poor, both in terms of where they shop and where they work.
These are the people with little to no education and skills, who are provided an opportunity of a good job, and if they have a mind to apply themselves can work their way up the ladder to even better jobs.
Why is this staple of the American economy so villified by the Left?
Ah, here we come to the reason for the smear campaign.
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I used to live in a town, as many others have, or presently do, where Wal-Mart came in, just outside the city limits. Here's what the scenario involves.
1. No city sales tax, so no benefit to the city.
2. Wal-Mart received tax benefits from the county and the state to locate within the county, but made (verbal) promises to locate in the city.
3. Wal-Mart employees overloaded the county (read poverty) hospital system as no healt benefits.
4. Wal-Mart gladly acquiesced in the "illegal immigrants" are overloading the county hospital system.
5. After a number of years, and the city annexing the land where Wal-Mart stood, WM pulled out, leaving an empty, crime attracting eyesore.
Wal-Mart is hardly the "good neighbor" they portray themselves as being.
If you want to see the real beneficiaries of Wal-Mart check out the next (or current) issue of "Forbes" magazine's list of the 500 richest Americans. Notice how many of them are named "Walton". And please don't tell me that they were "risk takers", they are descendants of "Sam".
I used to live in a town, as many others have, or presently do, where Wal-Mart came in, just outside the city limits. Here's what the scenario involves.
1. No city sales tax, so no benefit to the city.
2. Wal-Mart received tax benefits from the county and the state to locate within the county, but made (verbal) promises to locate in the city.
3. Wal-Mart employees overloaded the county (read poverty) hospital system as no healt benefits.
4. Wal-Mart gladly acquiesced in the "illegal immigrants" are overloading the county hospital system.
5. After a number of years, and the city annexing the land where Wal-Mart stood, WM pulled out, leaving an empty, crime attracting eyesore.
Wal-Mart is hardly the "good neighbor" they portray themselves as being.
If you want to see the real beneficiaries of Wal-Mart check out the next (or current) issue of "Forbes" magazine's list of the 500 richest Americans. Notice how many of them are named "Walton". And please don't tell me that they were "risk takers", they are descendants of "Sam".
golfgod
Since you used to live there, name the town. We'll do a little research and see if what you say is true.
I used to live in a town, as many others have, or presently do, where Wal-Mart came in, just outside the city limits. Here's what the scenario involves.
1. No city sales tax, so no benefit to the city.
2. Wal-Mart received tax benefits from the county and the state to locate within the county, but made (verbal) promises to locate in the city.
3. Wal-Mart employees overloaded the county (read poverty) hospital system as no healt benefits.
4. Wal-Mart gladly acquiesced in the "illegal immigrants" are overloading the county hospital system.
5. After a number of years, and the city annexing the land where Wal-Mart stood, WM pulled out, leaving an empty, crime attracting eyesore.
Wal-Mart is hardly the "good neighbor" they portray themselves as being.
If you want to see the real beneficiaries of Wal-Mart check out the next (or current) issue of "Forbes" magazine's list of the 500 richest Americans. Notice how many of them are named "Walton". And please don't tell me that they were "risk takers", they are descendants of "Sam".
golfgod
1. City's fault not Wal-Mart's.
2.Verbal
3. Were those people not in the county prior to Wal-Mart? Did they leave high-paying jobs with insurance to work at Wal-Mart?
4. Same as above. Please explain the link where Wal-Mart brought illegal immigrants to the county and piled them up into the hospital system.
5. I'm sure there is more to this. Maybe those unemployed ex-Wal-Mart workers should become police officers and clean up the place. Again, not Wal-Mart's fault. Maybe your county should go out and find a more friendly company to fill the space. From what people say, there should be countless companies more friendly that would be willing to come help.
Ah, here you go. People are rich and it's not fair, so Wal-Mart is bad.
I belong to The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I would not buy a Qt. of Mobil One full synthetic motor oil at Walmart even if it saved me $10 for 4 cases. That goes for Food Lion also. I will not give a red copper penny to any greedy, slave employment operation, or corrupt "increase the trade deficit" Corporation. Get back to "Made with pride in the U.S.A.", and "Buy with pride in the U.S.A"
After the economy continues to tank and all of you in the financial fields who will lose their jobs when their is no longer a "financial sector" in this country will wish you had a $15-50 an hour union job down the street to pay your bills, but you can always spend your unemployment check at walmart or better yet, satisfy your obligation to unemployment benefits and apply and work for walmart for the same as your unemployment check.
Shame on any and all who contributed to the collapse of the United States,,,
"America Works Best When We Say Union Yes"
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And he quotes the New York Post...Rupert Murdoch's baby, which wouldn't recognize a legitimate news story (to say nothing of that strange concept called "objectivity") if it got slapped across the face by one.
Some hack reporter writes a puff piece about Wal-Mart and that is suppose to change any of the following facts?
This settlement provides payment of up to $35 million to a certified class of over 80,000 current and former Wal-Mart associates who worked for Wal-Mart in Washington state since September 10, 1997
A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday granted class-action status to a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest employer. The case, which now covers as many as 1.6 million current and former female Wal-Mart employees, can be decided en masse because it is based on a statistical analysis that shows Wal-Mart paid female workers less and gave them fewer promotions than men.
Wal-Mart's 2006 Annual Report reported that the company faced 57 wage and hour lawsuits. Major lawsuits have either been won or are working their way through the legal process in states such as California, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. [Wal-Mart Annual Report 2006]
In December 2005, a California court ordered Wal-Mart to pay $172 million in damages for failing to provide meal breaks to nearly 116,000 hourly workers as required under state law. Wal-Mart appealed the case. [The New York Times, December 23, 2005]
A Pennsylvania court, also in December 2005, approved a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by employees in Pennsylvania who say the company pressured them to work off the clock. The class could grow to include nearly 150,000 current or former employees. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 12, 2006 ]
In Pennsylvania, the lead plaintiff alleges she worked through breaks and after quitting time — eight to 12 unpaid hours a month, on average — to meet Wal-Mart's work demands. "One of Wal-Mart's undisclosed secrets for its profitability is its creation and implementation of a system that encourages off-the-clock work for its hourly employees," Dolores Hummel, who worked at a Sam's Club in Reading from 1992-2002, charged in her suit. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 12, 2006 ]
Wal-Mart executives did not act on warnings they were violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Wal-Mart has known for years of a massive companywide problem of fair labor standards violations but did not take sufficient steps to address the problem. An internal Wal-Mart audit of one week of time records in 2000 from 25,000 employees had alerted Wal-Mart officials to potential violations. The audit found 60,767 missed breaks and 15,705 lost meal times. It also alerted Wal-Mart executives to 1,371 instances of minors working too late, during school hours, or for too many hours in a day. [Steven Greenhouse, "Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock," New York Times, A1, 6/25/02]
Despite this knowledge, Wal-Mart had to settle in January 2005 for violations that took place from 1998 to 2002, Wal-Mart agreed to pay $135,540 to settle U.S. Dept. of Labor charges that the company had violated provisions against minors operating hazardous machinery. [Ann Zimmerman, "Wal-Mart's Labor Agreement Is Criticized by Former Official," Wall Street Journal, 2/15/05]
In March 2005, Wal-Mart agreed to pay $11 million to settle allegations that it had failed to pay overtime to janitors, many of whom worked seven nights a week. [Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 11/7/05, Forbes, 10/10/05]
The State of Connecticut, investigating Wal-Mart's child labor practices after the federal investigation ended, found 11 more violations. In June 2005, Connecticut fined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. $3,300 over child labor violations after a state investigation found that some minors lacked proper paperwork and were operating hazardous equipment at the stores. ["Wal-Mart Is Fined for Child Labor Violations," Bloomberg News, June 22, 2005]
I belong to The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I would not buy a Qt. of Mobil One full synthetic motor oil at Walmart even if it saved me $10 for 4 cases. That goes for Food Lion also. I will not give a red copper penny to any greedy, slave employment operation, or corrupt "increase the trade deficit" Corporation. Get back to "Made with pride in the U.S.A.", and "Buy with pride in the U.S.A"
After the economy continues to tank and all of you in the financial fields who will lose their jobs when their is no longer a "financial sector" in this country will wish you had a $15-50 an hour union job down the street to pay your bills, but you can always spend your unemployment check at walmart or better yet, satisfy your obligation to unemployment benefits and apply and work for walmart for the same as your unemployment check.
Shame on any and all who contributed to the collapse of the United States,,,
"America Works Best When We Say Union Yes"
Because people who ditched high school to stack cans and wash lettuce for a career deserve 20+ bucks an hour and a pension right?
Wal-Mart is hardly the "good neighbor" they portray themselves as being.
If you want to see the real beneficiaries of Wal-Mart check out the next (or current) issue of "Forbes" magazine's list of the 500 richest Americans. Notice how many of them are named "Walton". And please don't tell me that they were "risk takers", they are descendants of "Sam".
golfgod
Would that be the same Sam Walton who was responsible for THOUSANDS of American Jobs in addition to his own employees by virtue of the fact that he sold goods produced domestically? The same Sam Walton who flew a banner inside the front door of every store he owned that proclaimed "We Proudly Sell Goods Made By American Workers"? The Sam Walton who made the statement to the press that "...Wal-Mart would sell only U.S. goods wherever and whenever possible.,"?
Sam was a Damned Fine Man, and was very interested in his workers being able to support their families. Unfortunately he died in 1992. May God rest him well and easy.
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