Posted on 11/22/2012 11:31:32 PM PST by matt04
It’s on.
A year and a half after retail workers announced the founding of a new Walmart employee group, five months after guest workers struck a Walmart seafood supplier, and seven weeks after the country’s first multi-store Walmart strikes, the Black Friday strike has begun.
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Expectations are high for a historic strike. Given Walmart’s role as the dominant employer of our era, the current wave of work stoppages is already among the country’s most consequential twenty-first century strikes. But in interviews this month, workers and organizers described today’s actions as a turning point, not a climax, in their struggle against the retail giant. “This is the beginning of something…” said Dan Schlademan, a United Food & Commercial Workers union official who directs the allied group Making Change at Walmart. “This is a new permanent reality for Walmart…2012 is the beginning of the season where retail workers are going to start to stand up.”
“There’s going to be more days that we’re going to strike,” said Rozier, “and it’s not going to stop. I’m not going to stop until they respect us and give us what we want.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
The unions don’t care if they shut down the sources of their current livelihood. After all, the anti-individualisms put in place by the Obama administration will permit them to keep eating.... Extended unemployment benefits, food stamps, regulatory impacts... All these are in place as a threat to employers to toe the line... Or else.
“Everyone in retail will be a “part timer” when ObamaCare kicks in, whether they work at Walmart or Macy’s.”
No reason to believe that will be limited to retail; expect it to reach far & wide.
PERFECT!
No. The American way to get higher pay and better working conditions is to find an employer who is more willing to provide what you want than your current employer, then QUIT and tell your current employer that the guy down the street just outbid him for your services.
If enough people quit for better-paying jobs, then the employer will have no choice but to either raise pay or close. THAT is the American, free-market approach.
THAT is how this non-union guy has operated for over thirty years.
OK, so ask to work three ten-hour shifts (actually 10-10-9). Or work 15 and 14 hours two days a week, and work somewhere else one or two days a week. In retail, they don't care how you arrange your hours as long as they have people during the times that they need them.
Meanwhile stop pretending to be a conservative.
Right, there is a reason these are called "entry-level" jobs. These are jobs for high-school and college kids who want some pocket money, or for retirees who want to supplement their social security.
... and be replaced by technology.
did the 1st in line just drop the soap?
Does Section 8 housing benefit the tenant or the landlord who was able to raise the rent because of the government subsidy?
Does the student or the college benefit from the government student loan which allow colleges to raise tuition because more money is available for student loans ?
Does the low paid worker or the business benefit more from the Earned Income Credit of up to $8k at tax time because it means there is less incentive for the low paid worker to go elsewhere ?
For the last consider the lifestyle of the minimum wage employee could be as good or better than the $12 an hour worker because the minimum wage worker with a family will be eligible for housing assistance,special winter heat programs, a free cellphone of 200 minutes and 200 texts a months,probably medical care for the whole family,food aid, and the list goes on.
***Look for the union to trot the workers who walked off the job on Black Friday and got fired and claim it was unfair.***
This is an old union trick. Many years ago they would send a “ringer” to get a job in our shop. His purpose was to talk union, get fired, the the union would sue because he was fired for talking union.
The men they sent were so incompetent and lazy they were fired within a few days. The union sued and lost every case because the company showed the men were fired for incompetence.
Once Walmart goes down, the rest of the employers in the country will follow in short order.
Ubama is going to give the unions card-check, and the NLRB is going to force all employers to turn over the names and addresses of all their employees to the unions.
With these two tools, Trumka and his fellow travelers can forge the signatures of employees and unionize any company without the consent of the employer or employees.
And their first target is going to be Walmart and the hundreds of millions of dollars of union dues they will be able to extort for the Democrat campaign-finance slush fund.
Soon, all the workers in the entire country will be paying into the Democrat campaign-finance slush fund through forced union membership and forced union dues.
Labor unions are America's Communist Party.
Who cares if workers strike against Wal-Mart? The workers have a right to strike as they see fit, and Wal-Mart has a right to react as it sees fit. It’s an internal business discussion. Let them work it out. Same with Hostess. Folks, it’s just business. It’s a contract negotiation. Leave it up to the parties. It’s nobody else’s business. Why all the emotion that I see on this thread?
Translation: now they get to be your beyotches (like I said before)
Me-- I don't like people waiting on me in retail or in a restaurant. So my preference is buffets though for social reasons I go to any and all kinds of eating places
I am all in favor of Wal-Mart coming down on these strikers like a ton of bricks. Fire the lot of them and ban them from being rehired. If they really wanted to play hardball make a blacklist for all of their suppliers as well, so that they don’t hire them either.
If they don’t already have it, then their human resources department needs to develop an intelligence branch to help screen new hires, and locate and identify infiltrators and malcontents. They might even have a counterintelligence branch to infiltrate the more obnoxious unions to find out what they are planning.
Waiting around for them to do something, then suing, is far too reactive, when they need to be proactive.
Strikers should trod carefully, the Walton kids are very rich and do not need these stores to remain very rich.
IMO the question is not how much an employer should pay for a task but who should decide how much an employer should pay.
As a small business employer I will decide the worth of that task as a part of the overall scheme of things. Too bad they didn’t have a dad like mine who raised me with the strong belief that you are worth what someone will pay you.
I did build my business and it is I who will shut the doors when I’ve had enough.
“Does Section 8 housing benefit the tenant or the landlord who was able to raise the rent because of the government subsidy?”
Section 8 is a disaster; it ruins buildings, neighborhoods, etc. (which is why the government has to mandate including it in housing construction projects). The tenants are nearly impossible to evict, often nobody else wants to live near them, and the amount of rent you can charge isn’t all that high. Owners of rental properties that I know personally go to great lengths to avoid having one of these tenants set up shop in their buildings (through referrals, W-2s and such); it is hardly beneficial to the owners (unless they are already in a bad area where worthy tenants are hard to come by), and if you are in a rent-controlled municipality it is even worse. You will be capped in how much rent you charge, while your tenants will call you to change a lightbulb (no kidding).
Unfortunately all too often these are the only jobs available now; I couldn’t imagine how anyone who had a “good job” even finds another one today...
It was the turkey and dressing!
I'm told that tryptophan in turkey probably won't put me down for a nap, but that maybe it might. So, I ate, I sat, I slept. Along about 230 in the morning the voice of stuffing was calling me from the fridge. I awoke, made my way to the microwave, and enjoyed that 2nd knockout pill while knocking down a double shot of free republic.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Do you mean that they do have to take a job that they don’t want? If your job isn’t all you’d like it to be, then move on down the road and get a better one.
If gasoline went to $40 a gallon, would you complain? Why?
I’m going to tell you now that if WalMart took, for example, a $10 an hour worker to $11 an hour, they would not be at all different tomorrow. Nor if they took them to $15 an hour. They’d be the same person.
I know folks who work at GM for whatever horrendous rate they make, and they just aren’t happy people. I know folks who work at Dollar General for a pitifully low rate who are happy and at peace with life.
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