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what's an honest days pay when you stand around and stock ? I can guarantee that in our life time we will see walmart using robots to stock their shelves.
Remember when an honest day's work deserved an honest day's pay......the corporation doesn't
what's an honest days pay when you stand around and stock ? I can guarantee that in our life time we will see walmart using robots to stock their shelves.
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Retail is a small step above fast food. And go ahead and throw your at me because I know you will. Honestly if I was given the choice of working in retail or a coal mine right now , I would pick the coal mine.
What's wrong with these losers? They should find better employment.
Wait... I spoke too soon... My bad... This is the best job these losers can find...
You like putting cashiers out of work?
I never use them.
WC taking a stand against capitalism.
It's our personal choices that helps shape how business works.
Fox's Fawning Pro-Walmart Segment "Brought To You By Walmart"
Fox News ran a segment sponsored by Walmart that defended that company from workers who are planning a Black Friday strike.
In an interview with a Walmart spokesperson about the planned strike, Fox News' Stuart Varney did not mention the concerns of the company's workers, instead praising the company for "taking on" unions, asking if they planned to fire striking workers, and plugging the company's charitable efforts following Hurricane Sandy. Following the segment, Fox News ran a banner ad explaining that "this program is brought to you by Walmart," followed by an advertisement for the company's Black Friday promotion.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11...-to-you/191459
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Why the do Republicans revise history and say stuff like, "This is what America is becoming! I want the old America back!" as if people wanting more than they're worth is a new phenomenon. The only difference is that they used to actually get more than what they were worth which shut them up and made them happy so you'd never hear about it. The people in that video are the same people who worked no skill assembly line jobs in the 50s, 60s, and 70s that not only paid way better but also had ridiculous pension benefits.
You got what you wanted. No skill labor nowadays = ty pay and ty lifestyle when it didn't used to. Don't cry about the fact that they're now crying over it.
Tbh, what really speaks volumes about society here is the people lining up to demonize workers for whistleblowing and arguing for better treatment.....
Duncan...
How is complaining about ones employer going to help? We have too many unskilled for the number of available jobs, yet liberals wish to bring in more unskilled through our southern border. Supply and demand dictates these jobs will continue to decline in value of pay. It's frustrating that people only see the symptoms of bad economic decisions by our leaders and never complain about the root cause. The root cause needs to be fixed... Our trade imbalance with the rest of the world.
It's the new Republican shtick. Demonize poor people while acting like living off food stamps and welfare is a rich, enchanting life millions of self-en led minorities eagerly seek out. Of all the Republicans whining about it, I'm surprised none of them have quit their job and filed for welfare since they seem to think poor minorities are the ones living the dream.
Going on strike, blowing the whistle on the inhumane Walmart does (like force employees to clock out and work 20 minutes past their shift to finish something or get fired), and unionizing so they can collectively bargain does help. That's what workers have always done when they're dissatisfied with their treatment. It's how manufacturing jobs become well paying jobs that provided the entire baby boomer generation with a stable middle class.
Liberals want to give citizenship to the ones already here, I don't know any liberals who want to increase immigration from Mexico.
History has shown that a free market where supply and demand dictates everything leads to a non-existent middle class. Like I said, Reagan, Clinton and Bush over the last 30 years have made our bed by dismantling the middle class with deregulation (Reagan), disfunctional public education that provides less skill training than ever (Bush), and free trade agreements (Clinton). You've made your bed with a free market dictated by supply and demand, don't whine about having to sleep in it and hear people cry about their lifestyle.
The root cause a country where both political parties are totally corrupt and bought off by people who don't want to see a middle class.
I see you don't understand how to parse properly what is said and implied. It's not that these people are living any dream. It's just that the balance between their willingness to work and what they have to spend is achieved. That is their personal growth acceptance. Most certainly not most peoples.
Really... have facts to back that claim up with?
How is a strike going to help? They aren't unionized, so someone will still work the jobs.
Different era. Not happening with all this free trade today.
You haven't read the way they want to allow extended families to come in then, have you?
So you wish to impose authoritarian non free business practices?
I don't know what regulations you speak of, but we are over regulated as a nation. We possibly need more regulations in other areas. That's a different argument.
That's what happens when you allow the federal government to impose its will over states rights.
Yes, NAFTA was the only logical trade agreement because they are our immediate bordering nations. The agreements that followed have done only harm.
I am a free trade advocate at the national level. I believe in tariffs like our founding fathers ins uted in the cons ution. If anything, I'm whining about the blatant disrespect of the cons ution our population has today.
Politicians only do as they can get away with. We have cheaper goods by allowing this free trade, but at the expense of our economic erosion. Every time I speak of fixing it, some idiot complains about how I want to raise prices. These same people don't realize that paying 4mployees more will also raise prices.
ing hypocrites.
No your wrong. Assembly line workers(creating a product) are much more valuable then a Wal-Mart employee who simply takes product out of a box and sticks it on a shelf.
The problem is generations of people have lived off the government and become complacent thus creating a career out of it.
A do ent ordained by dog himself.
I bet it wouldn't be terribly difficult to find a cons utionally disrespectful quote from you.ing hypocrites.
creating a product... dude you never put your freaking foot on an assembly line. You have absolutely no idea what the you are talking about.
I understand where you're coming from but working on an assembly line doesn't require any more skill than sticking boxes on shelves. They're both things a high school dropout with no additional training can do. Maybe one is contributing more th GDP than the other but assembly line workers were laughably overcompensated compared to "what they were worth." 50 years ago all the people in that youtube video would be working at an assembly line and wouldn't be complaining.
See this part of my post you quoted:
The strike itself won't help, but it might lead to things that do. Unionization doesn't happen over night.It's how manufacturing jobs become well paying jobs that provided the entire baby boomer generation with a stable middle class.
Free trade wouldn't solve Walmart's problem. They can't exactly export customer service jobs.
Tbh I haven't really. It makes sense since that beats the out of them sending all the money they earn here down to their families in Mexico.
Yes, since that's the only way to create a middle class. Using rhetoric like "authoritarian" isn't gonna change my mind.
You really don't know the deregulations under Reagan? Somehow I doubt that.
No, if you gave the states more rights over public education, you'd start seeing states like Alabama and Mississippi dumping science and math classes so they could teach students like "intelligent design." Local government is 10x as incompetent and corrupt at federal government. What happened was the No Child Left Behind Act creating no incentive for schools to give a about students who wouldn't inflate test scores. The high school I went to was a shining example of this.
NAFTA allowed jobs to be shipped to Mexico. It had just as much of a corrupt, corporate agenda as the other free trade agreements. Ross Perot was basically psychic in prediction what NAFTA would do.
dude you never took eco 101
Your argument could be considered if we are dealing with a USA economy of 70 to 50 years ago. I just find it extremely hard to believe that Walmart is not providing fair market compensation for the services their employees provide. With that I leave this quote " “Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
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