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Wal Mart's Exploitive Practices Attacked By Website
Wake Up Wal-Mart ^

Posted on 05/26/2005 6:27:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Because of Wal-Mart's inadequate wages and benefits, Wal-Mart employees are eligible for $2.5 billion in Federal assistance, which comes from your tax dollars.

(Excerpt) Read more at wakeupwalmart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: dujerks; gowalmart; ihateamerika; marxistidiots; nutjobs; populistmorons; rejoiceinwalmart; socialistcons; wallyhaters; walmart; walmartsucks; youshoptheretoo
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To: ExpatGator

Off the clock work. In Oregon, 400 employees in 27 stores sued the company for unpaid, off-the-clock overtime. In their suit, the workers explained that managers would delete hours from their time records and tell employees to clean the store after they clocked out. In December 2002, a jury found in favor of the workers (Associated Press, “Federal Jury Finds Wal-Mart Guilty in Overtime Pay Case,” Chicago Tribune, Business 3, 12/20/03).


81 posted on 05/26/2005 7:08:40 PM PDT by Afronaut (America is for Americans, but not anymore)
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To: patriciaruth
Entry level jobs are not meant to support a family of four.

Entry level jobs should support one person with at least modest shelter, food, transportation (preferably at least a used car and insurance) and a little extra to go to a movie. The only single people with lower echelon jobs have to live with someone or in a shelter to get by.

82 posted on 05/26/2005 7:09:10 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Doctor Raoul
Oh. . .yer right. . .silly me.

;-)
83 posted on 05/26/2005 7:09:46 PM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: Hilltop; A CA Guy
I encourage you to ponder the Biblical exhortation of "False pride goeth before a fall.

A CA GUY is absolutely correct in his assement, regardless of your sanctimonious injunction. Add me to the list of people you do not approve of.

84 posted on 05/26/2005 7:10:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Tell one company where you start out with real high wages.

There are a lot of busted dot-coms that are no longer in business that started you out with real high wages.

[Hmmmm .... thinking about the implications of that .... ]

Oh never mind!

85 posted on 05/26/2005 7:11:00 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: SALChamps03

"Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."


"I have never seen it put better than that."

Yes. The quote is from Churchill. You can't say many things better than Churchill did, a true master of thoughts and words.


86 posted on 05/26/2005 7:11:17 PM PDT by Betaille
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To: takbodan

Unions are also dying out being they make us uncompetitive in the world.
WalMart is like a big last gasp attempt by them for their very survival.

IMO, we need to dissolve the teacher's union and unions in government. OR simply insist that the average of pay and benefits in government with or without unions is no more than equal to the average in the private sector.
We do that, and the government payroll saves at least 45% IMO.


87 posted on 05/26/2005 7:11:53 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: patriciaruth
Correction: We also lived withOUT air conditioning in our homes and cars.

I still do except one room air conditioner in one bedroom. My car air conditioning is broken, has been for years.

88 posted on 05/26/2005 7:12:08 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: takbodan

My wife works there too and has taken advantage of advancement offers and there are many for those willing to apply themselves.


89 posted on 05/26/2005 7:12:49 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Aliska

"only single people with lower echelon jobs have to live with someone"

What?! I live in New York and have never lived without family or a roomate. Am I living below adequate living standards?


90 posted on 05/26/2005 7:13:19 PM PDT by Betaille
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To: patriciaruth

Maybe you hit the wrong reply button. Look at my other posts. I am not buying this whining about higher wages. My posts have consistently stated that one must acquire marketable job skills if one wishes to earn more.


91 posted on 05/26/2005 7:13:28 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: SALChamps03

If you have 4 people who work, that share an apartment, share expenses, you have a livable wage.

You want to go out and live alone, or with your 25 illegitimate children by 35 fathers, you can not afford it.

Expectations of what people think they are owed are out of whack.


92 posted on 05/26/2005 7:14:04 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Afronaut

Yep, and a jury acquited O.J. Simpson.

Do you have any more fine examples of juries full of ignorant, slovenly, intellectually lazy pieces of politically-correct craphumans?


93 posted on 05/26/2005 7:14:29 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: Aliska
Entry level jobs should support one person with at least modest shelter, food, transportation (preferably at least a used car and insurance) and a little extra to go to a movie. The only single people with lower echelon jobs have to live with someone or in a shelter to get by.

When I had an entry level job I was 15 and lived with my parents. It's not my fault that some people wait until they are 30 and have 2 kids before they get a job.

94 posted on 05/26/2005 7:14:44 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Fledermaus
My thoughts too but I'm glad you said it instead of me.
95 posted on 05/26/2005 7:14:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Aliska
>>Entry level jobs should support one person with at least modest shelter, food, transportation (preferably at least a used car and insurance) and a little extra to go to a movie.<<

So. . .flipping burgers at Wendy's should earn some high school drop-out a "living wage?"

How about a high school student working full-time over the summer doing the exact same job as the full-time drop-out. . .cutting grass or flipping burgers. . .full-time over the summer or full-time all the time. . .pay them the same "living wage," and if not that would be discrimination.

What?
96 posted on 05/26/2005 7:15:12 PM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: Clintonfatigued

Walmart does fine. I don't hear about them not being able to find employees. Maybe you're just a liberal who is mad because Walmart is not unionized.


97 posted on 05/26/2005 7:15:17 PM PDT by Modok
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To: Clintonfatigued

I must have missed the part where people are forced to work there.


98 posted on 05/26/2005 7:15:43 PM PDT by sharktrager (The masses will trade liberty for a more quiet life.)
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To: A CA Guy
Expectations of what people think they are owed are out of whack.

Yes, I agree.

99 posted on 05/26/2005 7:16:16 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: Clintonfatigued
Companies like Wal-Mart give free enterprise and capitalism a bad name. Socialists should thank them for the free propoganda.

Amen and along with the free traders too, they might as well give ammo to the other side.
100 posted on 05/26/2005 7:16:27 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
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