Target and Wal-Mart employee job action Black Friday

[Dog Wonder]

It has been explained to him at least a dozen times.  He still thinks 1+1=5.  Then he asks for a promotion to second grade. 

 

[saywhat]

Oh, I'm sorry, I would much rather pay 50X more for a product to keep ma & pa in business. What you miss is that after mom & pop leave, the prices are still low because it is retail competing with retail now.

BTW, ma & pa have become cheap beer stores nowadays.

You are missing the point. Mom and Pop and other small businesses are wiped out and they are all left to work for the largest Company in the world with the worst insurance and benefits. Go educate yourself and don't bore me with garbage talk.

 

[southwind]

Living wage - a wage that keeps someone above poverty level, and allows them to purchase goods and services that create demand and an in turn, create  jobs.

OK, thanks KC! Now that we've got that straight, let's take a look at this scenario !
Bob stocks the diaper shelves 5 days a week at a local store and is single, no kids!
Tom stocks the diaper shelves 5 days a week at "SAME" local store across town, is married and has 7 kids!
Should Tom be paid more than Bob in order to attain a "Living Wage" since he has 8 dependents or should Bob make enough to support 8 dependants, even though he has zero !

 

[southwind]

It has been explained to him at least a dozen times.  He still thinks 1+1=5.  Then he asks for a promotion to second grade.

And no one has come up with a legitimate explanation..........next!

Is it the employers fault, the cost of housing, food or flatscreens, might go up?

 

[southwind]

You are missing the point. Mom and Pop and other small businesses are wiped out and they are all left to work for the largest Company in the world with the worst insurance and benefits. Go educate yourself and don't bore me with garbage talk.

Didn't know Walmart was the only place to gain employment, in the U.S. !

 

[KCFlyer]

OK, thanks KC! Now that we've got that straight, let's take a look at this scenario !
Bob stocks the diaper shelves 5 days a week at a local store and is single, no kids!
Tom stocks the diaper shelves 5 days a week at "SAME" local store across town, is married and has 7 kids!
Should Tom be paid more than Bob in order to attain a "Living Wage" since he has 8 dependents or should Bob make enough to support 8 dependants, even though he has zero !

Well south...I was born in 1957.  I had an older brother and sister at the time.  Mom didn't work, they owned a house and one car.  Dad was a clerk in a paint store.  THAT was a living wage.   The next door neighbor worked in a tire store and had two kids. THAT is a living wage.  Today we don't even want to pay professionals a decent wage because it's "bad for shareholders".  When a clerk in a paint store could buy a house and buy a car and take the family out to dinner...they were putting money into the economy.   Of course, back in those days, the CEO of Porter Paint wasn't paid all that much more than the clerk when compared to what the CEO of Home Depot is paid in comparison to the folks working in their paint department. 

 

[Dog Wonder]

And no one has come up with a legitimate explanation!

 

Not on a level you could understand.

 

[delldude]

Well south...I was born in 1957.  I had an older brother and sister at the time.  Mom didn't work, they owned a house and one car.  Dad was a clerk in a paint store.  THAT was a living wage.   The next door neighbor worked in a tire store and had two kids. THAT is a living wage.  Today we don't even want to pay professionals a decent wage because it's "bad for shareholders".  When a clerk in a paint store could buy a house and buy a car and take the family out to dinner...they were putting money into the economy.   Of course, back in those days, the CEO of Porter Paint wasn't paid all that much more than the clerk when compared to what the CEO of Home Depot is paid in comparison to the folks working in their paint department. 

 
 
Kind of a BS analogy.......$1.00/ hr minimum wage, less taxes, less inflation.....less government....less regulation....
 
More capitalism.......LOL

 

[southwind]

Kind of a BS analogy.......$1.00/ hr minimum wage, less taxes, less inflation.....less government....less regulation....
 
More capitalism.......LOL

Dell it's always the evil corporations and never the government. Government= Good Company= Bad

 

[SparrowHawk]

Dell it's always the evil corporations and never the government. Government= Good Company= Bad

You mean like the one Hillary served as a Director?
 
Still think we have a two party system? Think harder.

 

[KCFlyer]

 
 
Kind of a BS analogy.......$1.00/ hr minimum wage, less taxes, less inflation.....less government....less regulation....
 
More capitalism.......LOL

 
Indeed Dell....$1 an hour minimum wage and the CEO of the company made about $50k.  Today the paint store clerk is paid a minimum wage of $7.50...wow....the wage increased by 700%.  But the CEO's pay increased by 7700%.  You don't see anything wrong with that? 

 

[delldude]

 
Indeed Dell....$1 an hour minimum wage and the CEO of the company made about $50k.  Today the paint store clerk is paid a minimum wage of $7.50...wow....the wage increased by 700%.  But the CEO's pay increased by 7700%.  You don't see anything wrong with that? 

 
 
Splain' me inflation.

 

[KCFlyer]

 
 
Splain' me inflation.

Believe it or not, inflation impacts the lowly paint store clerk far more than it impacts the CEO of the company.  Yet the CEO sees his wages inflate at a rate that is 10 times that of the line worker.  Could you explain to me that if inflation caused the line workers pay to increase by 700%., how come the exec's pay wasn't limited to a 700% increase?  Are there two different inflation rates at work here?

 

[700UW]

 

[700UW]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/18/2962751/nlrb-walmart/
 

National Labor Relations Board To Prosecute Walmart For Violating Workers’ Rights

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency that protects workers’ rights to organize and demand better conditions, will announce a decision today to prosecute Walmart for violating workers’ rights by firing, disciplining, and threatening workers who went on strike or attempted to unionize, according to OUR Walmart, the group that has been helping to organize the strikes.
 
The group says the NLRB will prosecute the company for illegally firing and disciplining more than 117 workers, including some who went on strike last June. It also includes threats by managers and spokespeople meant to discourage workers from striking. Workers could potentially see back pay, reinstatement to their former positions, and the reversal of disciplinary actions. Neither the NLRB or Walmart returned a request for comment by the time of publication.