Posted on 11/15/2012 4:08:36 PM PST by Nachum
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -
A group of Wal-Mart workers are planning to stage a walkout next week on Black Friday, arguably the biggest holiday shopping day for the world's largest retail store.
The walkout builds on an October strike that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles and spread to stores in 12 other cities. More than 100 workers joined in the October actions.
One of the workers who plans to join next week's walkout is William Fletcher, who works at a Wal-Mart in Duarte, Calif.
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Perhaps the fact that Wally World moved the Black Friday Sale opening up to 8PM Thanksgiving Day has something to do with it.
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Bingo! Even in this poor economy workers feel it’s unjust if they have to work holidays. Poor babies. Yet cops, firemen, nurses, doctors etc. who have always had to work weekends and holidays are expected to be there for them. It’s the pervasive entitlement mentality!
Oh my gosh, so silly. My son works for Walmart while going through college. It is a menial job. He understands that. You go into work, do what you are told, and get a paycheck. He gets quarterly bonuses. This year it will be close to $1200 extra he has made in bonuses. For shoving product on a shelf. Seriously.
He gets 10% off general merchandise year round, and during the holidays, he gets 10% off groceries also. This year, as an addition, employees get 20% off one shopping trip. And his insurance is less than mine, full coverage.
These horror stories about how Walmart treats employees are bogus. Society needs to keep in mind that this is a minimum wage job for a reason (and he makes much more than minimum wage), it requires no appreciable skills.
Walmart employs over 2 million. This looks like the press trying to make a stink out of something for political reasons.
Really-Fire the ani.
Perfect example #50,987....
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Sorry sunshine, you have to have a license for that degree of stupidity.
Well, considering your screen name, I considered the possibility but decided what the hell. The Walmart excellence lesson needs to be repeated for the slow ones.
Yes. There are 4 in every store. The run the 4 of 32 checkout registers that are kept open.
It is not the Wal-Mart retail workers that get the unions so fired up. The unions don’t really care about the retail workers, they are just the most visible part of the company. Therefore, the unions don’t care if Walmart closes retail locations and puts the non-union workers out of work. What the unions are so worked up over are the truck drivers and warehouse workers.
The retail workers at Walmart are essentially unemployables who are very fortunate that Walmart will hire them.
There you go, being logical and sensible again.
That no longer works in this age of political spin automatically taken as truth.
Thanks, I stand corrected.
Walmart should hold a job fair on Monday and Tuesday at every store.
Wow, I'm so impressed. That's like ten or fewer per store, right? I'm sure it made a huge impact on customers.
Wal-Mart has like a million employees.... just not where you might need them...
I listen to Dennis Miller nearly every day he is on the air, and I've never heard him say that . . . his mantra is, "help the helpless, screw the clueless."
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Some sources I found say 1.3 million Americans work for Wal-Mart and 3.1 million globally.
So liberals think... hey, lets put them out of business too... cha-ching- more welfare and unemployment!
I think Tea Party Terrorist takes on a whole different meaning after reading your post... WOW!
1.8 million globally. lol
Hey whats a couple million Chinese cost these days?
So this is what the next few years is going to look like? I had at one point made a comment that I was going to have to switch to decaf. Now I may just switch to a a shot of booze in my decaf!
Watching Obama destroying this country, killing it once and for all is just hard to watch.
I know! I'll go shopping on a different day!
Those fat things wearing blue and white vests, who duck behind the nearest desk or aisle when they sense a customer needing help... THOSE are EMPLOYEES?
Well, I'll be daggone...
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