what I would like to ask you is why does it matter to you if they want to try and get higher wages and better working conditions. this is America right. they have the freedom to try. they may face consequences they did not want. or they may prevail. that all sounds like the American way to me.
If Walmart was smart they migjt try to make their employees happy. their service has slipped significantly. the days of an employee happily guiding you to the product you’re looking for are over. that slide will hurt their sales. I’m just 1 consumer but I don’t shop there anymore.
If Walmart is smart, they will fire the ones who walkout, as soon as they leave the store.
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.
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.