Posted on 05/23/2006 10:25:50 AM PDT by SmithL
One of Wal-Mart's most vocal union-funded critics took out a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on the company to live up to the "moral responsibilities" of being the world's largest private employer by improving wages and health insurance.
Wal-Mart Watch urged the retailer to enter a voluntary deal to improve its business practices, calling it "a handshake with Sam" in reference to Wal-Mart's late founder Sam Walton. That deal would involve seven voluntary commitments, including ensuring quality, affordable health insurance and paying a "family-sustaining wage".
The ad, which the group said cost about $150,000, is the latest volley in a war of words between unions and Wal-Mart that has heated up since last year, when Wal-Mart Watch and another group, WakeUpWalMart.com, were set up by separate unions to wage political-style campaigns against the retailer.
Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. dismissed the ad and said it has no plans to respond to the union group.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Thank you AP for the free propaganda you provide the unions. I doubt very much that if a conservative group had taken a one page ad in a major newspaper, the AP would have written an article going the same way. As a matter of fact, I could bet that they either would have ignored it totally, or would have written an article refuting every point, making the expense meaningless instead of magnifying it.
can never understand why people who work as cashiers and clerks are never allowed to sit down periodically. It's not just at Walmart....Most department stores have that policy.
That has to be bad on someone's back because the floors in most of those kind of stores are cement or ceramic tile or marble.""
Lots of jobs are done standing on your feet during the work hours. I have done many, including running a punch press when I was young. They get sit on their breaks and their lunch. Lots of jobs are far more stressful than being a cashier in a store of some kind. I always preferred it when it was VERY busy when I was a grocery cashier--long time ago-before scanners-. The day just flew by.
Another day, another WalMart bashing...........
can never understand why people who work as cashiers and clerks are never allowed to sit down periodically. It's not just at Walmart....Most department stores have that policy.
That has to be bad on someone's back because the floors in most of those kind of stores are cement or ceramic tile or marble.""
Lots of jobs are done standing on your feet during the work hours. I have done many, including running a punch press when I was young. They get sit on their breaks and their lunch. Lots of jobs are far more stressful than being a cashier in a store of some kind. I always preferred it when it was VERY busy when I was a grocery cashier--long time ago-before scanners-. The day just flew by.
I'm a computer programmer... no unions here... and I've sat on my butt for over 6 years!
:)
The slimes would actually have to have readers for this to make a difference.
Betcha it includes a union shop down the line.
They DO provide low cost health insurance. As far as taking away low cost jobs, many of those employed may not have skills adequate to justify hiring them at a higher wage. WalMart can't just make those more productive by executive fiat. If WalMart disappears as a potential employer, where are they supposed to go?
screw the unions. We should develop laws to abolish the ability of unions to terrorize business with which they have no members.
And it's only Tuesday.
On thing I noticed in the article is that the ad ran in the NY Slimes. Aren't they preaching to the choir? Leftwing unions and a leftwing paper? Not too surprising.
Thanks for the ping. To sum up the article, "Please change your succesful business formula and ensure you operate as poorly as every other company that caves to unions...."
Walmart would rather abandon a functioning retail location than ever permit the unions to get a foot in the door. That would be more devastating to the business than the loss of a few stores.
Excluding the military, Wal-Mart employes more than the U.S, government.
There's a rule in the service industry that says sitting employees present a lazy front to the customer. People standing are more mobile and look more active and ableto respond to customer needs. Managers in most places can sit when they're doing backroom work, but if they're out in the customer area they're standing like everybody else. Retail is unpleasant work, that's just how it is.
Actually, Manpower, Inc. is the largest employer in the world. If anyone has ever worked the "Temp Circuit" for any time at all, you know what a cr@ppy job being a Temp is, versus working for Wal-Mart. *Rolleyes*
Manpower, Inc. must be unionized, or the union pukes would be taking out ads against them too, right? ;)
http://www.doleta.gov/brg/Business_Solutions/Manpower.cfm
I've never worked for them, thankfully, but I have never found anything trustworthy about Manpower, Inc.
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