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[NonValueAdded]

the company is making changes with an eye to forcing out longtime higher-wage workers to make way for lower-wage part-time employees.

That is a universal business policy now, not just Wal-Mart's.

[Gabz]

WalMart Ping

[longtermmemmory]

wallmart announces health insurance for part timers and then puts on wage caps.

interesting.

[PEACE ENFORCER]

Go Walmart !!

[The Great RJ]

Union supplied BS ...Wal Mart has to compete for its labor like any other business and if the pay and work hours they offer aren't acceptable, workers will simply go somewhere else.

The unions make it seem like Wal Mart hires press gangs to "Shanghai" their workers and then keeps them chained to their posts to work for peanuts under sweatshop conditions.

[sandbar]

>>>Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends. >>>

I'm beginning to hate Walmart about as much as the leftists do.

Walmart is forcing it's employees to Medicaid because they offer no solutions. When a majority of your employees are on socialized medicine, and you are the largest employer in the country... something is wrong with this picture.

[Non-Sequitur]

Current and former Wal-Mart workers...assert that the company is making changes with an eye to forcing out longtime higher-wage workers to make way for lower-wage part-time employees.

Well welcome to the same world that the rest of us have been living in for the last decade. Every company I know of is taking steps to rid itself of older, higher paid workers either through outsourcing, internal evaluations, layoffs, and anything else they can think of. If anything Wal-Mart is late out of the gate on this tactic.

[LetsRok]

So now instead of having the majority of workers who care about customer service and how it impacts their potential future with the company, we now have to deal with more and more untrained monkeys who curse under their breath if you ask them where something in the store is located.

[Protagoras]

The document was provided to The New York Times by WakeUpWalMart.com, a union-funded group that is critical of the retailer.

= zero credibility.

[unspun]

Capture the market and squeeze it for all you're worth Wal-Mart, you all too typicaly sick company. But if you don't amend your ways and innovate, specialty stores will continue to take more of your recent gains away (thankfully).

[mysterio]

It's almost as if Walmart wants unions to form. Because now that will happen for sure.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer..."

A company that provides employment to more people than any other deserves to be destroyed.

Success is failure.

[ExpatGator]

I have been a staunch Wal-Mart supporter, was a manager with them once upon a time, and my wife still works for them.

These new policies are the exact opposite of what has made Wal-Mart successful and they have, in the last six months, apparently decided to kill the goose that laid the proverbial golden egg. Sam Walton's legacy is dead, and the associate is now considered a dispensible commodity. The employment agreement that long term associates made with the company have been buried and they are indeed being intentionally pushed out. They do have a hiring freeze on full-time employees at stores under the "new flight," and are increasing the hours required to be "full-time" in order to squeeze out the long term employees who were grandfathered under the old hour requirement. I HATE UNIONS, and think that these new policies will create a niche in Wal-Mart's armor that the unions will ooze through.

The idiots are sucking up to the Rainbow Crowd and are basically pulling a Dixie Chicks manuever, by alienating their base.

We sold off our stock last week. The wife is hanging in there for a few more years and then she is gonna bail.

[FFIGHTER]

Let's see NY Times article based on information from WakeUpWalMart. Nothing but Demoncratic talking points direct from the DNC seeking to placate their union base.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good. If they're providing affordable healthcare, all the way down to their part-timers, they need to cap wages...or go out of business by ignoring their stockholders and their bottom line.

Then no one gets anything from Wal-Mart. No stores, no jobs, no healthcare; and the states can pick up the tab for more low-end workers who were at least working and had healthcare. ;)

[N3WBI3]

As my wife and I walked around target the other night we realized the prices were not that much higher and the stuff was not absolute crap..

[Fawn]

But Sally Wright, 67, an $11-an-hour greeter at the Wal-Mart in Ponca City, Okla., said she quit in August after 22 years with the company when managers pressed her to make herself available to work any time, day or night. She requested staying on the day shift, but her manager reduced her schedule from 32 hours a week to 8 and refused her pleas for more hours, she said.

$11.00 after 22 years? Jeez....where do i sign up?

[redgolum]

Oh man, this thread will be a hot one!

[CWOJackson]

Wow...I wish you folks who hate Walmart so much would take a break. Everytime I read one of the BS threads I make a special trip to Walmart.