Aw geez ...
Posted on 11/22/2012 8:08:31 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
About 20 people gathered in front of the Oakland Walmart store on Edgewater Drive Wednesday to demand better pay and work schedules.
Richmond Walmart store employee Anthony Bravo joined fellow demonstrators and said the company starts associates at minimum wage, but reported $15 billion in profits last year.
“We didn’t see nothing. I didn’t see none of that. It really makes me upset that they can make all of this money out of profits and we’re barely surviving,” Bravo said.
With the chant of “Walmart, Walmart you’re no good. Treat your workers like you should,” Bravo and the others marched through the stores with signs for about 10 minutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
So?
The jobseeker can start his own company too.
“needs some help”
and that is where tyranny comes from
Reality check. In the 50’s and 60’s there was no competition
The rest of the world was in ruin after a certain conflict.
>>BTW, the union bosses will still be drawing their six-figure salaries. You think they give two s#its about the workers?<<
That is the beauty of it — the union rank and file are as stupid as the 51%. The same happened a few years back with the supermarket workers. The line guys/gals were asking for handouts for Christmas while the bosses kept their HUGE salaries.
No, what killed Hostess was the tariffs on sugar and lack of foresight in planning for manufacturing costs.
The union nonsense was coup de grace.
>>What happened to the idea of business and their workers working together instead of using the government to get at each other’s throats?<<
The sense of entitlement the post-boomer generations are infused with (yes, that is the boomers’ collective fault).
Since government set the rules, businesses have no choice to play in that field. For example, if you are sued, you are in the legal environment.
My company has a great relationship with its (150,000+) employees — but we are all professionals and are treated as such. We don’t go to the gummint asking them to get involved, so the business doesn’t go there either.
They have already said they will NOT drop coverage due to obozocare because in their opinion that would not be the right thing to do. The gummint had nothing to do with their decision.
And, be sure that your employees are union!
I check a product for the "union label" (union made) and if I see it, I set it back on the shelf!
Industries in war-torn western Europe and Japan were largely rebuilt by the mid-1950s.
Aw geez ...
Then don't go work for WalMart. See how simple that is? I'm sick and tired of the anti WalMart crowd on here. WalMart is a model of efficency and capitalism. Don't like them, don't support them. It's that simple.
Thank you, I will. You go ahead and remain a whiny loser.
It was because Europe and Asia was rebuilding still after WW II. What did you think?
Please see post 51.
BTTT
Companies are not created for the benefit of employees.
You should know that.
Men and women who risk their own capital and time ought to determine how ANY of the profits from their enterprise are distributed.
yeah I read the garbage at post 51 I don’t remember the working man economy was not all that great then in the 50 and 60’s.
If you don’t like Wall Mart why do you shop there? I noticed every where I shop China is the predominant vendor country. The guy protesting make me think he is just coveting Wall Mart’s success and want something handed to him. If Bravo wanted something real to complain about and protest he should start his own business and build wealth himself.
So the truth is “garbage”? Whatever.
I don't think they ran the plants 24 hours a day either. The Ford plant in Highland Park was huge. The best car I had when younger was a hatchback Gremlin.(I think, that was back in the 60's. Hubby hated working on that car. The money the unions received just caused the price of the car to go up. We bought a 4 bedroom 8 room colonial for less than what you pay for cars in the last 20 years..
Error in what ford stood for ......frequently off road dead...
So there’s been some talk at my Thanksgiving gathering. We all agreed unions pretty much suck.
They should be grateful. We need to educate all that your compensation is based on the need for what you do, how well you do what you do, and how easily you can be replaced. Unions disrupt that economic rule to the detriment of all.
Once upon a time, someone with limited skills still had skills and a work ethic. And we still had a government that didn't make unemployment a lucrative alternative. And, we didn't have government regulations that made it extremely difficult to run a manufacturing operation in this country. And, of course, we didn't have labor unions that were nothing but fronts for the fund-raising branch of the communist/democrat party.
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