Black Friday Wal-Mart Walkout

[LogikAndReazon]

A group of Wal-Mart workers are planning to stage a walkout next week on Black Friday, arguably the biggest holiday shopping day for the world's largest retail store.

The walkout builds on an October strike that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles and spread to stores in 12 other cities. More than 100 workers joined in the October actions.

One of the workers who plans to join next week's walkout is William Fletcher, who works at a Wal-Mart in Duarte, Calif.Fletcher, who also participated in the October strikes, claims Wal-Mart cut his hours after he asked to move from the receiving department to another division because of a knee injury. He has since switched departments.

"I kept asking myself, 'when is the retaliation for speaking our mind and acting on our rights going to stop?' " he said. Wal-Mart did not have an immediate comment in response to Fletcher's claim.

The union-backed groups OUR Walmart and Making Change at Wal-Mart, and a watchdog group Corporate Action Network, are calling on the nation's largest employer to end what they call retaliation against employees who speak out for better pay, fair schedules and affordable health care.......

Wal-Mart workers plan Black Friday walkout | Money - Home


Just fire their lazy asses.........

 

[SniperFire]

The can all rush home to do their Christmas shopping buying direct from China online!

 

[KissMy]

I knew this shit was going to happen. Government should have imposed a higher minimum wage for business with 50 or more employees just as they did with the healthcare law. If big business continues to shit on the working class expect more unions everywhere. Occupy Wallstreet everywhere.

Republicans have lost 3-1/2 out of the last 4 elections because they have removed or failed to implement & enforce rules thus allowing big business to raid their pensions funds & Wallstreet to screw the world.

 

[nitroz]

How dare employees try to make their voice heard.

 

[Wacky Quacky]

Just fire their lazy asses.........

It's not about being lazy. Wal-mart treats their employees like dirt. They pay a decent enough wage for unskilled labor, but they're assholes.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Nothing screams FIRE ME! Like missing work on the busiest day of the year. An Obama sticker on your car is a close second.

 

[SniperFire]

Just fire their lazy asses.........

It's not about being lazy. Wal-mart treats their employees like dirt. They pay a decent enough wage for unskilled labor, but they're assholes.

Hmmm. Then employees should seek better opportunity elsewhere.

 

[nitroz]

Just fire their lazy asses.........

It's not about being lazy. Wal-mart treats their employees like dirt. They pay a decent enough wage for unskilled labor, but they're assholes.

Hmmm. Then employees should seek better opportunity elsewhere.

In an economy where hardly anyone is hiring?

 

[jillian]

Good for them.

 

[beretta304]

A group of Wal-Mart workers are planning to stage a walkout next week on Black Friday, arguably the biggest holiday shopping day for the world's largest retail store.

The walkout builds on an October strike that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles and spread to stores in 12 other cities. More than 100 workers joined in the October actions.

One of the workers who plans to join next week's walkout is William Fletcher, who works at a Wal-Mart in Duarte, Calif.Fletcher, who also participated in the October strikes, claims Wal-Mart cut his hours after he asked to move from the receiving department to another division because of a knee injury. He has since switched departments.

"I kept asking myself, 'when is the retaliation for speaking our mind and acting on our rights going to stop?' " he said. Wal-Mart did not have an immediate comment in response to Fletcher's claim.

The union-backed groups OUR Walmart and Making Change at Wal-Mart, and a watchdog group Corporate Action Network, are calling on the nation's largest employer to end what they call retaliation against employees who speak out for better pay, fair schedules and affordable health care.......

Wal-Mart workers plan Black Friday walkout | Money - Home


Just fire their lazy asses.........

They will be at the unemployment office first thing Monday and those of us that work will pay for their tomfoolery.

 

[KissMy]

A 2005 study of government assistance found that just California Wal-Mart employees and their families alone utilize an additional $54 million in non-health related federal assistance, including food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit, subsidized school lunches, and subsidized housing. Way more of California Wal-Mart employees and their families were eligible for government assistance than were utilizing it. Then add in the $Billion+ burden that their employees are to the health-care system that they don't pay for.

Wal-Mart is also a burden on state governments. According to a study by the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003 California taxpayers subsidized $20.5 million worth of medical care for Wal-Mart employees. This does not include local assistance.

Investigators documented 244 Wal-Mart subsidy deals with a total value of $1.008 billion. Taxpayer dollars have helped individual stores and distribution centers with everything from free or cut-price land to general grants. One example: in Sharon Springs, N.Y., a distribution center made a deal with an industrial development agency for the agency to hold the legal title to the facility so the corporation could evade property taxes. They estimates that Wal-Mart will save about $46 million over the life of this one agreement.

Wal-Mart is on the Government dole raising my taxes. Every Wal-Mart store is costing tax payers about a million dollars. They have 9,000 stores in the USA costing us tax payers $9 Billion. Walmart makes $16 Billion in profits a year & cry about paying taxes. Walmart can pay the $9 billion they are costing us tax payers without having to raise any prices in their stores. It's time they paid their own way just like I have to.

For all of you retards who want to blame Obama for the amount of Walmart Welfare - NOTE THE DATES OF THE STUDIES. 2003-2005 It was during an all Republican Administration, House & Senate. Just imagine how much it has grown in the past 9 years. Also Walmart is no longer the biggest welfare moochers. Many many more have joined their ranks. So enjoy paying taxes so they can take your wealth. Rally in support of & kiss the ass of the rich folks some more!

 

[beretta304]

Good for them.

Yeah genius, good for them. Maybe if you were honest and paid attention, instead of being a hack, you would acknowledge what just happened to those at Hostess and they had a union to back them.

 

[SniperFire]

It's not about being lazy. Wal-mart treats their employees like dirt. They pay a decent enough wage for unskilled labor, but they're assholes.

Hmmm. Then employees should seek better opportunity elsewhere.

In an economy where hardly anyone is hiring?

Yes.

Perhaps they should consider a career as an Independent Distributor if they do not like their employer.

 

[blastoff]

I knew this shit was going to happen. Government should have imposed a higher minimum wage for business with 50 or more employees just as they did with the healthcare law. If big business continues to shit on the working class expect more unions everywhere. Occupy Wallstreet everywhere.

Republicans have lost 3-1/2 out of the last 4 elections because they have removed or failed to implement & enforce rules thus allowing big business to raid their pensions funds & Wallstreet to screw the world.

Screw unions and their stooges.

 

[bucs90]

God Bless freedom.

We aren't China. Our workers aren't forced into labor.

 

[del]

better to die on your feet than live on your knees

 

[beretta304]

God Bless freedom.

We aren't China. Our workers aren't forced into labor.

No, they just strike in a terrible economy and end up with no job and none to apply to afterwards. Great plan...

 

[SniperFire]

A 2005 study of government assistance found that just California Wal-Mart employees and their families alone utilize an additional $54 million in non-health related federal assistance, including food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit, subsidized school lunches, and subsidized housing. Way more of California Wal-Mart employees and their families were eligible for government assistance than were utilizing it. Then add in the $Billion+ burden that their employees are to the health-care system that they don't pay for.

Wal-Mart is also a burden on state governments. According to a study by the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003 California taxpayers subsidized $20.5 million worth of medical care for Wal-Mart employees. This does not include local assistance.

Investigators documented 244 Wal-Mart subsidy deals with a total value of $1.008 billion. Taxpayer dollars have helped individual stores and distribution centers with everything from free or cut-price land to general grants. One example: in Sharon Springs, N.Y., a distribution center made a deal with an industrial development agency for the agency to hold the legal title to the facility so the corporation could evade property taxes. They estimates that Wal-Mart will save about $46 million over the life of this one agreement.

Wal-Mart is on the Government dole raising my taxes. Every Wal-Mart store is costing tax payers about a million dollars. They have 9,000 stores in the USA costing us tax payers $9 Billion. Walmart makes $16 Billion in profits a year & cry about paying taxes. Walmart can pay the $9 billion they are costing us tax payers without having to raise any prices in their stores. It's time they paid their own way just like I have to.

Gubmint handouts are not Walmart's concern or fault, commie.

 

[beretta304]

Hmmm. Then employees should seek better opportunity elsewhere.

In an economy where hardly anyone is hiring?

Yes.

Perhaps they should consider a career as an Independent Distributor if they do not like their employer.

There's always Amway. Stooges at the bottom of the pyramind work for those at the top who get the real money. Just throw a house party and get 10,000 new members and we will reward you with a check for $50.00.

 

[Wacky Quacky]

Just fire their lazy asses.........

It's not about being lazy. Wal-mart treats their employees like dirt. They pay a decent enough wage for unskilled labor, but they're assholes.

Hmmm. Then employees should seek better opportunity elsewhere.

They're between a rock and a hard place. They either go somwhere else and risk a pay cut, or they stay at Wal-Mart and keep getting pissed on.

I agree, they should keep looking. Everyone should keep looking unless you're in a job you love. But finding a job that pays more for unskilled than Wal-Mart isn't exactly easy, especially right now.