Wal-Mart won't build 3 DC stores if bill passes

[DMX7]

Wal-Mart says it won't build 3 stores in nation's capital if 'living wage' bill is approved.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wal-Mart says it won't build three stores it had planned for the District of Columbia if lawmakers approve a bill that would force the retailer to pay its employees at least $12.50 an hour.
Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had been planning to build six stores in the nation's capital. But a Wal-Mart representative wrote in an op-ed published online by The Washington Post Tuesday that the retailer will abandon plans for three of those stores if the bill gains final approval from the D.C. Council Wednesday. Wal-Mart says the bill will also jeopardize three stores already under construction.
The bill is backed by worker advocates and unions that say employees of big-box stores should earn a "living wage." It applies only to stores doing business in spaces of 75,000 feet or more.

http://news.yahoo.com/wal-mart-wont-build-3-203213082.html

[boutons_deux]

already posted

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219540&p=6747988#post6747988

[FuzzyLumpkins]

boutons, fuck off. you are not a mod. you don't get to dictate what is thread worthy and what is not. post 8 on a thread about food stamps does not make a thread about minimum wage and walmart unworthy. it's not even the same article.

It's bad enough that you have to personify the first quote in my sig and spam your rss feed.

[boutons_deux]

boutons, fuck off. you are not a mod. you don't get to dictate what is thread worthy and what is not. post 8 on a thread about food stamps does not make a thread about minimum wage and walmart unworthy. it's not even the same article.

It's bad enough that you have to personify the first quote in my sig and spam your rss feed.

GFY

[exstatic]

Shit, Cibolo needs to pass something like that. Boll weevil-Mart is trying to drop a new store there, less than 3 miles from the Schertz I35 store. WTF?

[Rogue]

The commie accessories can shut down all their stores and the nation's economy will be in much better shape before long tbh.

[Jacob1983]

Wal Mart = America's version of a sweat shop

[Wild Cobra]

Wal Mart = America's version of a sweat shop
If you say so.

Riddle me this...

What does it tell you when people will take those jobs at those wages?

[Jacob1983]

Desperation. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth or has connections. Some people have to struggle just for their own survival. And to be honest, making fun of minimum wage workers is pretty immature and convenient.

[Wild Cobra]

Desperation. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth or has connections. Some people have to struggle just for their own survival. And to be honest, making fun of minimum wage workers is pretty immature and convenient.
Responding to me?

Well, I read multiple things into it.

1) These people are more likely to be hired into better jobs, because they are already working.

2) We have a shortage of employers, because polices have made too many jobs outsourced overseas.

3) The people working these jobs have more self esteem than the average freeloader.

I could go on, but what's the point? You all will probably scoff at my words anyway.

[Jacob1983]

I was responding to anyone that enjoys picking on minimum wage workers. Minimum wage jobs are basically jobs that people don't want to do but are usually desperate so they work the minimum wage jobs.

[Wild Cobra]

I was responding to anyone that enjoys picking on minimum wage workers. Minimum wage jobs are basically jobs that people don't want to do but are usually desperate so they work the minimum wage jobs.

I really wish we could return to the days that there were enough jobs for everyone wanting to work. However, the way I see it, as long as we continue to buy cheaper foreign goods... We are screwed.

[velik_m]

I really wish we could return to the days that there were enough jobs for everyone wanting to work. However, the way I see it, as long as we continue to buy cheaper foreign goods... We are screwed.

I don't see how foreign comes in to play. World is closed economical system, going to a smaller closed system (USA) would somehow fix the problem?

[Bill_Brasky]

Responding to me?

Well, I read multiple things into it.

1) These people are more likely to be hired into better jobs, because they are already working.

2) We have a shortage of employers, because polices have made too many jobs outsourced overseas.

3) The people working these jobs have more self esteem than the average freeloader.

I could go on, but what's the point? You all will probably scoff at my words anyway.

That's because your words are meant to be scoffed, because they contain no factual information, just ramblings about how you think shit oughta work with complete ignorance to the reality of whatever topic you're discussing.

[DMX7]

If you say so.

Riddle me this...

What does it tell you when people will take those jobs at those wages?

They have no other choice?

[Spurminator]

If you say so.

Riddle me this...

What does it tell you when people will take those jobs at those wages?

Which people, Wal-Mart workers or sweat shop workers?

[boutons_deux]

and of course, the brilliant, serious Fox Repug propaganda journalists chime in

Doocy: Forcing Walmart to pay living wage could be ‘the death of free enterprise’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/fox_ff_living_wage_130712a-615x345.jpg

“Is this the death of free enterprise as we know it?” Doocy asked Kevin Hasset of the American Enterprise Institute on Friday.

“There are parts of D.C. where you can have about the worst retail experience in America,” Hasset replied. “And those places tend to be kind of local monopoly supermarkets that have heavily unionized workforces, and the unions give all their money to Democratic politicians. And what’s going on is the Democrats are trying to drive up the cost of the competitors.”

Christian Dorsey of the Economic Policy Institute, however, pointed out that Walmart could be exempted from the living wage requirement if the company allowed collective bargaining.

“Walmart has a wonderful history of bringing in economic development to communities,” Dorsey explained. “But it also has a very clear history of bringing other consequences to communities: sprawl, traffic impacts, water impacts, other environmental impacts.”

“Lower prices,” Doocy interrupted.


“The one that D.C. cannot stand is to have Walmart come and completely distort the labor market and at the same time require taxpayers to support its low-wage employees, and, in effect, provide a subsidy to a very profitable company,” Dorsey added. “That’s something D.C. doesn’t need, nor should it require.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/12/doocy-forcing-walmart-to-pay-living-wage-could-be-the-death-of-free-enterprise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Your Big Mac Would Only Cost $.68 More If McDonalds Doubled Its Pay (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/30/2378861/mcdonalds-wages-doubled/)If McDonalds were to double the salaries and benefits of all of its employees, from the CEO down to the minimum wage cashiers, it would still only cost an extra 68 cents for a Big Mac, according to a new report by the University of Kansas.

As fast food workers across the country are going on strike (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/29/2370401/low-wage-strikes-kansas-city-flint/) to demand a livable wage, University of Kansas research assistant Arnobio Morelix tells the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mcdonalds-salaries_n_3672006.html) that it would cost the average consumer mere cents to give them just that.


Currently, a minimum wage McDonalds employee makes $7.25 per hour. The CEO makes $8.75 million (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/mcdonald-s-8-25-man-and-8-75-million-ceo-shows-pay-gap.html). But if the former were raised to $15 and the latter to $17.5 million, the dollar menu would only have to become the $1.17 menu and the Big Mac would go from $3.99 to $4.67, Morelix found.

If the CEO’s pay remained the same but low-wage workers earned more, the price difference for customers would be negligible.

These numbers underscore what low-wage workers already know: It would take very little for McDonalds to vastly improve the lives of those who make the company run. In fact, minimum wage raises have proven beneficial to a company’s bottom line (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/14/1594181/no-firing-minimum-wage-raise/+).

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/30/2378861/mcdonalds-wages-doubled/

[101A]

Your Big Mac Would Only Cost $.68 More If McDonalds Doubled Its Pay (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/30/2378861/mcdonalds-wages-doubled/)

If McDonalds were to double the salaries and benefits of all of its employees, from the CEO down to the minimum wage cashiers, it would still only cost an extra 68 cents for a Big Mac, according to a new report by the University of Kansas.

As fast food workers across the country are going on strike (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/29/2370401/low-wage-strikes-kansas-city-flint/) to demand a livable wage, University of Kansas research assistant Arnobio Morelix tells the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mcdonalds-salaries_n_3672006.html) that it would cost the average consumer mere cents to give them just that.


Currently, a minimum wage McDonalds employee makes $7.25 per hour. The CEO makes $8.75 million (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/mcdonald-s-8-25-man-and-8-75-million-ceo-shows-pay-gap.html). But if the former were raised to $15 and the latter to $17.5 million, the dollar menu would only have to become the $1.17 menu and the Big Mac would go from $3.99 to $4.67, Morelix found.

If the CEO’s pay remained the same but low-wage workers earned more, the price difference for customers would be negligible.

These numbers underscore what low-wage workers already know: It would take very little for McDonalds to vastly improve the lives of those who make the company run. In fact, minimum wage raises have proven beneficial to a company’s bottom line (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/14/1594181/no-firing-minimum-wage-raise/+).

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/30/2378861/mcdonalds-wages-doubled/



"University of Kansas research assistant Arnobio Morelix"

Got it.

Thanks.

[boutons_deux]

"University of Kansas research assistant Arnobio Morelix"

Got it.

Thanks.

you're welcome. I'm actually surprised this work was allowed by a fucked up red state like Kansas. I bet some Kansans are on the warpath against this study.

[rjv]

“There are parts of D.C. where you can have about the worst retail experience in America,” can't accuse fox of subtlety.