Posted on 06/13/2006 8:45:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
8,000 Applicants For 350 Jobs At N.J. Wal-Mart
BY DAVID LOMBINO - Staff Reporter of the Sun June 13, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/34316
Wal-Mart tomorrow will open its newest store just more than seven miles from Manhattan, in Kearny, N.J., part of its strategy to ring the city with stores in order to hasten their arrival here.
The store received more than 8,000 applications for 350 jobs, a Wal-Mart executive said.
Although Wal-Mart is the nation's largest retailer, boasting more than 4,000 stores nationwide, it has no outlets in the five boroughs, and in the last 16 months, two attempts at siting a store in Queens failed.
Some members of the City Council, lobbyists for small businesses, and representatives of the commercial food workers' union have tried to block Wal-Mart's entry into the city - claiming Wal-Mart is a bad corporate citizen and questioning the chain store's effect on smaller neighborhood businesses.
The director of corporate affairs for Wal-Mart in the Northeast, Steven Restivo, said the large number of applicants for the jobs in Kearny, which is in New Jersey's Hudson County, "shows that we are bringing good jobs with good benefits, and tremendous career opportunities to this community."
Mr. Restivo said that several hundred of the applications came from New York City residents, and 23 New Yorkers were hired. He said those workers will commute each day to New Jersey from as far away as the Bronx, and that the average wage for employees will be about $10.50 an hour.
"In terms of career opportunity, the majority of store managers nationwide started out as hourly associates," Mr. Restivo said.
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The evil W strikes again.
why? It's great part time work for those who don't want alot of pressure.
I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.
Yeah, they don't even offer health care benefits to part-time workers. What a sweat shop. No wonder they only got 8,000 applicants to fill 350 jobs.
-ccm
Wal-mart must have rustled a lot of people out of bed at gunpoint and forced them to fill out applications.
Armed Walmart executives were on hand to force the prisoners to fill out zee papers. Whips and chains had to be used on a few resistors.
Labor has voted
It's pretty standard.
The statistic that so many Wal-Mart employees receive public health benefits is a half-truth: it is standard for employees to go through a probationary period before receiving full benefits. Since Wal-Mart is the largest employer in many states, it is only logical that they would also have the most employees on probation.
You prefer half-truths, don't you?
another good WMT story...
You're right, if this is the job that people want to work as a lifetime job. However, if you look at it as a stepping stone for something more, ie, time to work on a degree, a job as a teenager, an additional income, or a retiree wanting to get out of the house, it's great. I think people are missing the big picture here. Wal-Mart isn't a career- take care of your family kind of job, and those who look at it that way are near-sighted. It's a low-paying job because it doesn't require a large amount of skill.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!!!! /sarcasm
When's the deadline? I always wanted to be a greeter.
I smell a tad of sarcasm?
A developer recently canceled an agreement with Wal-Mart for a site in New York City under pressure from unions and elected officials, so now New Jersey gets the development and the jobs -- and even hires a number of New Yorkers to fill those jobs. I'm guessing that at least 25% of the people who shop at this Wal-Mart will be New Yorkers, too.
In case anyone out there is wondering how a corrupt sh!t-hole like New Jersey can remain viable, it's important to remember that being located across the river from two of the most fouled-up places in North America (New York City and Philadelphia) sure helps.
How can this be? I thought we had virtually zero unemployment... unless the unemployment figures are fraudulent...
can you say illegals ? we have a seemingly endless supply of those...
Nope, I think Newark NJ beats out Philly by a little bit.
Folks in NJ should come out to CA!
Pavillions & Ralphs are hiring and they pay THREE TIMES what the Waltons pay and you get medical insurance too!
Can't beat the weather here either. :-]
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