Do You Know Where Your Local Walmart Strike Is?

[Capt Bringdown]

A list of some of the Walmart Strikers Black Friday Events over Thanksgiving week, organized by state ->more (http://interoccupy.net/blackfridaystrike/2012/11/list-of-events-by-zip/)

Drop by and support your fellow workers


Thankful for the Walmart Strikers This Holiday (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/thanks-and-giving-why-wal-mart-black-friday-strikes-are-important/2012/11/21/edbb2e30-3403-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_blog.html)

These workers are saying, first and foremost, that they want respect for their lives, their dignity, and their rest. Thanksgiving is the most widely shared American holiday, and it is traditionally a time to rest from our labors and spend time with family and friends

Being able to rest from your labors and give thanks with family and friends is crucial in this treadmill economy, where the vast majority of workers work longer for less pay, take fewer or no vacations and retire later. Americans work “more than anyone in the industrialized world,” perhaps as much as “month more” than they did in 1970. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93364&page=1#.UK7QTFpo3Xy)

[D12]

:lol Walmart
:lol these types of "jobs"
:lol being friends of people with "jobs" like this

[Wild Cobra]

Well, at least these lunatics won't be out drinking Friday Night!

[Wild Cobra]

OK, rather than the Superstore close to where I live, they will be protesting at this older Walmart:

Google maps: 4200 SE 82 (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4200+se+82&hl=en&ll=45.49255,-122.577928&spn=0.003919,0.005407&sll=45.463035,-122.579377&sspn=0.013771,0.01487&hnear=4200+SE+82nd+Ave,+Portland,+Multnomah,+Orego n+97266&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=45.492078,-122.578772&panoid=tShLo_EjFC1oSu1tuyiF2w&cbp=12,136.54,,0,-6.68)

If you look to the left of the stop sign above the trees, you can see part of the store!

[DMC]

I worked holidays for two decades. Walmart people need to find other employment or shut the fuck up.

[Capt Bringdown]

http://www.folkarchive.de/scissor.gif
Don't try to talk your union dope to Scissor Bill,
He says he never organized and never will.
He always will be satisfied until he's dead,
With coffee and a doughnut and a lousy old bed.
And Bill, he says he gets rewarded thousand fold,
When he gets up to Heaven on the streets of gold.
But I don't care who knows it, and right here I'll tell,
If Scissor Bill is goin' to Heaven, I'll go to Hell.

[boutons_deux]

Why You Shouldn't Shop at Walmart Today

half century ago America's largest private-sector employer was General Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of around $50, in today's dollars, including health and pension benefits.


Today, America's largest employer is Walmart, whose average employee earns $8.81 an hour. A third of Walmart's employees work less than 28 hours per week and don't qualify for benefits.

The wealth of the Walton family now exceeds the wealth of the bottom 40 percent of American families combined

What happens at Walmart will have consequences extending far beyond the company. Other big box retailers are watching carefully. Walmart is their major competitor. Its pay scale and working conditions set the standard.

Consumer spending is 70 percent of economic activity, but consumers are also workers. And as income and wealth continue to concentrate at the top, and the median wage continues to drop - it's now 8 percent lower than it was in 2000 - a growing portion of the American workforce lacks the purchasing power to get the economy back to speed. Without a vibrant and growing middle class, Walmart itself won't have the customers it needs.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the average full-time retail worker earns between $18,000 and $21,000 per year.

A new study by the think tank Demos reports that raising the salary of all full-time workers at large retailers to $25,000 per year would lift more than 700,000 people out of poverty, at a cost of only a 1 percent price increase for customers.

According to the study, the cost of the wage increases to major retailers would be $20.8 billion - about one percent of the sector's $2.17 trillion in total annual sales. But the study also estimates the increased purchasing power of lower-wage workers as a result of the pay raises would generate $4 billion to $5 billion in additional retail sales.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/274-41/14682-why-you-shouldnt-shop-at-walmart-today

[mavs>spurs]

i guess my first job isn't too bad afterall, at least we get holidays hell i'm even off the day after thanksgiving. i feel bad for the average unskilled worker.. they really do get fucked and most of them don't have any alternatives. snobs will always say well they should have went to college, they should have did this or that etc but what they fail to realize is that not everyone can be a doctor or lawyer, inevitably someone has to pick up the trash, clean the floors, etc and there will NEVER be a world with total equality, i just wish the gap wasn't so large. now if i can just get that raise and then hopefully soon a promotion..maybe i'll go donate some money or something.

[scott]

Did I miss something where employment at Wal-Mart is no longer voluntary?