Target and Wal-Mart employee job action Black Friday

[Ms Tree]

I went to one of the "fast food" protests last week. Nobody protesting was actually a fast food worker -- they were mostly SEIU "professionals" and retirees who showed up as a group, plus a few of the Occupy crowd who has been feeling somewhat neglected now that nobody takes them seriously...

The protesters were supposed to be there for 90 minutes, but left after less than an hour, pretty much the point where they realized there were more of us coming to support the McDonalds they targeted than to actually support them thanks to one of the local radio stations.

Here's one of the "angry white men" radio hosts:


The owner of the McDonalds was quite grateful for the added business, I might add. So were the towing companies who showed up to tow the protesters' car from his parking lot.

 
Gallup
 
Perhaps there were more of them who were actually at work and did not have time to protest.  After all according to the survey, there are far more of them than there are of you.

 

[delldude]

Where they do the survey, Wal Mart and Mickey d's?

 

[xUT]

Sandwich shop workers get awful Christmas surprise: They're all fired

Employees of a Chicago sandwich chain opened their email on Sunday to find a surprise just before Christmas: they would all be without a job the next day.
An email went out to all 20 workers at a Snarf's Sub Shop in Chicago Sunday night informing them that the store would be abruptly closing for an “unknown period of time” for remodeling and that they were all terminated as of Monday.
The employees were told they would receive their final paychecks on the Friday after Christmas and told to ”keep an eye out for the grand opening of the new store.”
The mass firing affects the entire staff of one of two Chicago locations of the Colorado-based company.
The announcement comes three weeks after Snarf's employees joined other fast-food workers in a national strike demanding higher wages and better benefits, according to Chicago Grid, which confirmed the email with a company spokeswoman.
 

OOPS!

 

[Ms Tree]

Why shut a store down for remodeling to open up at a later date and blame it on a wage increase that has mot taken effect?

Im calling BS on the link between the closing and the wage increase protest.

 

[Ms Tree]

Curious how you left out the very part that contradicted your assertion.

Jill Preston, Snarf's director of marketing, told Chicago Grid that the termination was not related to the strike that left the restaurant shuttered for four days, but due to the slow business of the holiday season.

 

[delldude]

Curious how you left out the very part that contradicted your assertion.

Jill Preston, Snarf's director of marketing, told Chicago Grid that the termination was not related to the strike that left the restaurant shuttered for four days, but due to the slow business of the holiday season.

 
If he in fact admitted it, that would get him in hot water with NLRB Mr Tree......duh
 
Priceless........

 

[Force Majeure]

Very true Mr Delldude. Merry Christmas. Those folks should have thought that one through a little more. Anyone doing that kind of protest better have a backup plan.

 

[700UW]

http://youtu.be/w-rwbmR3WQA

 

[delldude]

http://youtu.be/w-rwbmR3WQA
 

 
Why does your fave, Center for American Progress also take money from the Dreaded Walmart?
 

 
Corporate Supporters in Alphabetical Order (2013)

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• The Albright Stonebridge Group
• American Beverage Association
• American Iron and Steel Institute
• America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
• Anglo American
• Apple Inc.
• AT&T
• Bank of America
• Blackstone
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
• Blue Engine Message & Media
• Blue Shield of California*
• BMW of North America
• CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
• Citigroup
• The Coca-Cola Company
• Comcast NBCUniversal
• Covanta Energy
• CVS Caremark Inc.
• Daimler
• DeVry Education Group
• Dewey Square Group
• Discovery
• DISH Network
• Downey McGrath Group, Inc.
• DRS Technologies
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Facebook
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
• GE
• Genworth Financial
• The Glover Park Group LLC
• Goldman Sachs
• Google*
• Health Care Service Corporation
• The Ickes and Enright Group
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation
• Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
• McLarty Associates
• Microsoft Corporation
• Monitor Deloitte
• Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA*
• MyWireless.Org
• Northrop Grumman
• Pearson
• PepsiCo
• PG&E Corporation
• Quest Diagnostics
• Samsung Electronics America
• Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, or TECRO
• Tata Group of Companies
• Time Warner Inc.
• T-Mobile
• Toyota Motor North America
• Visa Inc.
• Walmart 
  
• Wells Fargo

http://www.americanprogress.org/about/our-supporters/

 

[delldude]

And you are cool with the fact that Walmart pays their "associates" so little that they refer them to GOVERNMENT health care (Medicaid) in their benefits brochure?  You hate Obamacare, but apparently are cool with picking up the health care costs of employees of one of the biggest companies in America.  I guess that IS one way to keep costs down. 

 
 

 
Target Corp. (TGT) said it will end health insurance for part-time employees, joining Trader Joe’s Co., Home Depot Inc. and other retailers that have scaled back benefits in response to changes from Obamacare.
About 10 percent of Target’s part-time employees, defined as those working fewer than 30 hours a week, use the company’s health plans now, according to an announcement posted today on the Minneapolis-based company’s website. Target said it would pay $500 to part-timers losing coverage and a consulting firm will help workers sign up for new Obamacare plans.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-21/target-to-drop-health-insurance-for-part-time-workers.html

 

[700UW]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/25/rejecting-wal-mart-strategy-trader-joes-pays-employees-a-living-wage-and-wins/

 

[700UW]

 

[southwind]

You do know WinCo foods is based out of ..........gasp..........TEXAS!
Also, doubt they're in competition with Walmart, since they only sell food products !

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

You do know WinCo foods is based out of ..........gasp..........TEXAS!
Also, doubt they're in competition with Walmart, since they only sell food products !

Based out of Texas? Boise, Idaho is not in Texas in our world. Of course in your world of Southwind geography, it may exist.

You continue to prove how idiotic you are with each post. You and la la are in competition.

"WinCo Foods can trace its beginnings back to 1967 when Ralph Ward and Bud Williams founded a discount warehouse grocery store in Boise, Idaho under the name of Waremart (from our warehouse roots, we have evolved into the great discount, value channel supermarket we operate today). The company operated stores under the names of Waremart Food Centers and Cub Foods until 1999 when it changed its storefront name and the corporate name to WinCo Foods, which stands for Winning Company."

"For over 40 years WinCo Foods has fostered a tradition of success by focusing on very large stores with a wide selection of national brands at prices below our competition. In addition, the very nature of having employee stockholders that have seen their Employee Stock Ownership Plan (Pension Plan) grow at a 21.51% annual compound growth rate creates an extremely dedicated workforce. This has made WinCo a very successful company, one which in 1998 was listed as #266th on Forbes Magazines List of 500 largest Privately Held Companies and recently in 2011 holding to the 66th spot on the list.

WinCo is continuing this record of success, now operating 93 Employee Owned Stores in seven states (Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Arizona and Texas) with nearly 15,000 employees and continues to grow by opening new stores and adding new members to the company every year."


http://wincofoods.com/about/

 

[southwind]

Excuse me for reading, somewhere, that WinCo was based out of Texas...........doesn't change the fact that , I'm sure, Walmart does not consider them a threat!