Target and Wal-Mart employee job action Black Friday

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Company boy from CLT brought the thread off topic. How is LL 1725 doing?

Josh

To 700's credit, he's taken threads off topic a few times.

 

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You do know that by adding a piece of lettuce and slice of tomato, Mc4Q makes a $1 meal become a Deluxe and charges $2? I don't eat Mc$#!7 so I couldn't care less.
 
Keep attacking the management for making the big bucks. They created the jobs and are entitled. Employees are replaceable. Sad but true. Lets attack the man we work for because it is better to eliminate an employer rather than allowing their employees to live in our PERCEIVED poverty level. 🙄
 
One has to wonder why people would apply or even stay with an employer whose wages they agreed to. Did they own $100K homes and hoped to pay their mortgage working at McD or Wal-Mart?

 

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The IAM doesnt impose a CBA.
 
https://www.google.com/#q=buffenbarger+boeing&start=10
 
So does Rick know your posting from work?

...otherwise I'll rat you out because you are not my union brother!

 

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Why is it more important that corporate execs be able to stay ahead of inflation, but not the people who do the actual work?  

Perhaps because most people in the execs position are more educated. The people who do the actual work are replaceable, and AGREED to the wage. Otherwise, one would look like an idiot for taking a job because they didn't like the pay.

 

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If executive pay rose in proportion to worker pay, you bet I'd be happy.  I answered you.  NOw...tell me, what did the current Home Depot CEO, who risked NOTHING of his personal money to found and grow that company, do to warrant pay that is 500 times that of the people who work for him?  Eagerly awaiting your response.  

I have a question. Why don't the workers become executives? Now, KC, if you think real hard, you will get the answer as to why execs are ahead of the game.

 

[eolesen]

The McDonalds comments are funny... and ignorant of the facts.

If the CEO zeroed out his salary, that would net about $7.25 per employee worldwide. Hardly enough for a deluxe combo meal...

If each employee earned $1/hour more, it would cost about $1.7B, about 30% of their current profit margin.

 

[WorldTraveler]

hope I haven't missed it in my skimming of the article but what kind of merchandise and service discounts do Wal-Mart employees get? I have a nephew who works for Target and another who works for Best-Buy and they get pretty decent merchandise discounts.

If your salary is low but your employer gives you discounts on the things you most need, then it is a lot harder to argue about the low standard of living.

 

[Kev3188]

 

I have a question. Why don't the workers become executives?

That's not what he's asking.

Besides, if everyone's in the boardroom, who'd be left to, you know, actually to do the work?

 

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/18/2960371/walmart-food-drive/
 

 
Why don't you tell who organized this?

 

[saywhat]

I have a question. Why don't the workers become executives? Now, KC, if you think real hard, you will get the answer as to why execs are ahead of the game.

You need to educate yourself, you look like a fool with the responses you have given. If Walmart is the only job available paying $8 an hour so the choice is that or unemployment everybody should be happy the person took the Walmart job. However, they can be unhappy that they work for the largest Company in the world with the worst benefits and pay.

 

[700UW]

 
http://youtu.be/36usDqbotJU

 

[700UW]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/20/1256968/-Stephen-Colbert-rips-into-Walmart-s-wage-inequality?detail=facebook#

 

[SparrowHawk]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/20/1256968/-Stephen-Colbert-rips-into-Walmart-s-wage-inequality?detail=facebook#

Daily Kos is NOT a news source! It's a place for opinions and opinions being like a$$holes everybody has one.

 

[delldude]

This food drive isn't new.......
 

 
In a photo that is being distributed on the Internet by Our Walmart, a labor group that receives funding from United Food and Commercial Workers International Union that is pushing Walmart to unionize its employees, several large plastic bins behind the scenes of a store in Canton, Ohio, are shown with signs that read: "Please donate food items here so Associates in Need can enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner."
Kory Lundberg, a spokesman for Walmart, said this store of about 300 employees has been hosting a holiday food drive for a few years.
"Quite frankly, a lot of people in that store are frustrated and offended that this is reported in a way besides other folks rallying around each other," Lundberg said.
Last year, he said there were about 12 people who benefited from the program.
"I couldn't be prouder of people in that store helping in a tough situation," he said.
 
"They set the tub up for associates and managers to donate items for associates for things beyond their control," Lundberg said. "It shows these associates care for each other. This isn't every day run of the mill stuff -- maybe a spouse has lost a job or lost a loved one, or maybe a natural disaster has hit."
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ohio-walmart-store-holds-thanksgiving-food-drive-associates/story?id=20927026

 
http://www.ourwalmartfactcheck.com/

 

[Ms Tree]

OK.  I do not understand this whole "must open on TG day" thing.
 
Lets say I am Best Buy.  I have a whole bunch of crap that people want.  Yes, Target and Wal Mart can open on TG but if you know I will be open the day after TG and I will still have all that stuff because I did not sell it on TG day, wouldn't there still be a mass of people looking to buy the same stuff that everyone else could not get on TG day at the other places?  
 
I have never shopped on TG day because there is nothing I want bad enough to wait in line for a week to get one of 5 "x" being offered at 50% off.  I saw on the news today there are already people camping out in front of stores and we are 9 days away.  WTF?
 
I just do not think there would be any loss in revenue if they opened the day after.