Union Fail: Walmart Reports Record Sales

[Freewill]

Union Fail: Walmart Reports Record Sales

Despite union efforts to target retailers like Walmart, businesses are reporting record Black Friday traffic – the biggest sign yet that the unions are out of touch with the American people. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Walmart put its products on Black Friday sale, sparking a run to the stores and earning the stores record sales.


This, in my opinion, is what is wrong with Unions and many in this country. The Unions wont do the work for themselves they expect the governement to do it for them.

 

[Black_Label]

Breitfart failed harder than anyone, he OD'd

 

[PhenomenalAJ]

Congratulations on your boy Walmart winning and killing American jobs! You must love being part of China's 5th column

 

[ScienceRocks]

Congratulations on your boy Walmart winning and killing American jobs! You must love being part of China's 5th column

WTF do you mean? Walmart is the biggest employer within the private sector for what it is in this country. Millions of people have jobs thinks to them.

People should be thankful to have a job being that we have the butt boy in the white house.

 

[Freewill]

Congratulations on your boy Walmart winning and killing American jobs! You must love being part of China's 5th column

Where did I congradulate anyone? How exactly does Walmart kill American jobs? By you ane your brothern bitchin about it and then buying stuff made in China? I doubt you thought of this two weeks ago, but Obama is President not me there is nothing I could do but he sure should have. Clinton sent our jobs overseas your bitch is with him.

There is absolutely nothing I can do for those who work a walmart, they need to do it for themselves. More power to them if they do but they will only be hurting poor people if they do.

 

[Freewill]

Breitfart failed harder than anyone, he OD'd

Is that all your sick twisted mind could come up with? Come on you can get down and dirtier.

 

[rammentard]

Union Fail: Walmart Reports Record Sales

Despite union efforts to target retailers like Walmart, businesses are reporting record Black Friday traffic – the biggest sign yet that the unions are out of touch with the American people. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Walmart put its products on Black Friday sale, sparking a run to the stores and earning the stores record sales.


This, in my opinion, is what is wrong with Unions and many in this country. The Unions wont do the work for themselves they expect the governement to do it for them.

How are unions out of touch with Americans seeking better wages , safe working conditions and health benefits ? The unions won't do the work for themselves ? they expect the government to do it for them ? how do you come to these conclusions ? do you even think about what you're writing or are you just plain stupid ? In my opinion what's wrong with this country is that there's uneducated ill informed people like you who haven't a clue as to what unions mean to this nation , how unions helped the nation grow or how unions affect you . You support Walmart ,a company that makes billions in profit , cuts workers hrs so they won't have to pay them over time , doesn't provide it's workers benefits but gives them brochures on how to get welfare benefits so they can see doctors and imports crap made in China for pennies that you're happy to buy for a hundred times it's value . You are the reason plutocrats are think America is for sale . Stupid people brainwashed to believe that a group of people getting together to fight for that's their right is somehow socialism, communism , etc . You are what's wrong with our nation , you're a rightwing radio fed moron who will blame the Titanic for sinking the ship .

 

[NYcarbineer]

This is what conservatism wants for America. The mere thought of a prosperous working class scares the hell out of conservatives.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Well, the walmart model works better than the union model. That's all that matters. Same goes with the Chinese model kicking our ass.

Says something about reality.

 

[Photonic]

Apparently something that our poor OP doesn't understand is that included in every employment package Walmart gives to its employees, is a package containing information on what welfare they qualify for, and how to get it.

Walmart Pads Their Payroll With Your Tax Dollars: Call On Congress To Stop Them - The Winning Words Project

The reality of Walmart, and why it's helping destroy our economy.

 

[Photonic]

This is what conservatism wants for America. The mere thought of a prosperous working class scares the hell out of conservatives.

They know their extremism would never receive another vote.

 

[ScienceRocks]

You honestly think that closing businesses down is going to create a prosperous middle class? Tell that to Fidal Castro or the older Chinese.

 

[rammentard]

Congratulations on your boy Walmart winning and killing American jobs! You must love being part of China's 5th column

Where did I congradulate anyone? How exactly does Walmart kill American jobs? By you ane your brothern bitchin about it and then buying stuff made in China? I doubt you thought of this two weeks ago, but Obama is President not me there is nothing I could do but he sure should have. Clinton sent our jobs overseas your bitch is with him.

There is absolutely nothing I can do for those who work a walmart, they need to do it for themselves. More power to them if they do but they will only be hurting poor people if they do.

Right , it's the workers fault that the wealthiest family uses the welfare program as a subsidy to their operation.'free market' means, you work for free.

 

[rammentard]

Report: Wal-Mart actually kills jobs, creates taxpayer burdens


EW YORK – Wal-Mart’s lengthy struggle to open in New York City has hit fresh problems — a controversial report that said America’s biggest discounter does not just sell cheap, it makes neighborhoods poorer.

The report concludes that Wal-Mart, the biggest U.S. private employer, kills jobs rather than creates them, drives down wages and is a tax burden because it does not give health and other benefits to many part-time employees, leaving a burden on Medicaid and other public programs.

The New York City Council will hold a public hearing on Thursday on the impact a Wal-Mart would have but the retailer has declined to attend.


Wal-Mart dismisses the critical report — released in January by City University of New York’s Hunter College Center for Community Planning — as “randomly selected statements from … flawed studies.”

The report is based on 50 studies of Wal-Mart openings and comes as the company tries to gain a foothold in some of New York’s poorest neighborhoods.

“The overwhelming weight of the independent research on the impact of Wal-Mart stores … shows that Wal-Mart depresses area wages and labor benefits … pushes out more retail jobs than it creates, and results in more retail vacancies,” the report concluded.

Wal-Mart spokesman Steven Restivo said a store would bring good jobs and good shopping for fresh food to locals. To push its case, Wal-Mart launched a public relations blitz in mid-January with radio and newspaper ads and a website, Walmart Community, which features positive coverage of the company.

New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio calls a possible Wal-Mart store in New York “a Trojan horse.”

“It looks appealing to a lot of families who are hurting but it turns into a big problem in the long term because of the net elimination of jobs,” de Blasio said.


Wal-Mart has been trying to open in New York since 2005 but various plans floundered on objections from the community and union activists. Now the company is reported to be looking at locations including East New York and Brownsville — Brooklyn neighborhoods known for high unemployment, crime and drugs.

Dilapidated buildings and empty lots are common and many residents live in public housing in these neighborhoods. The U.S. Census data for 2007-2009 show the median family income in the East New York neighborhood is $33,485; in Brownsville it is $26,802. The median family income in all of New York City is $55,562.

Planned Wal-Mart stores have long met opposition in places such as Chicago, where last year Wal-Mart secured approval to build two new stores after agreeing to use union labor.

Despite the poverty in East New York and Brownsville, many residents are against the stores setting up here.

“It would be a disaster,” said Mark Tanis, owner of an East New York shopping market about three miles from a proposed sites. “It would have a detrimental impact on our area.”

Tanis said he fears a product he sells for $20 could sell for as little as $12 at Wal-Mart and drive him out of business.

East New York resident Darryl Williams, 43, echoed the view of many, saying, “Cheap things would be nice but if it’s true that we’ll end up with even fewer jobs, that’s not good.”

Courtney Laidlaw, 22, who lives near the two possible locations said, “We have become a society of bargain shoppers and having a Wal-Mart locally will definitely be beneficial.

“The small businesses that can adapt to the socioeconomic times that we live in will find a way to survive. Wal-Mart is just an alternative destination, not the only destination.”

In Brooklyn, one of the loudest anti-Wal-Mart voices has been City Councilman Charles Barron from East New York, who has been leading demonstrations.

“We don’t need Wal-Mart (which) has a history of destroying the local economy and hurting it, not helping it,” he said.

(Reporting by Bernd Debusmann Jr.; Editing by Mark Egan and Bill Trott)

Source: Reuters


Raw Story (Report: Wal-Mart actually kills jobs, creates taxpayer burdens | The Raw Story)

 

[rammentard]

Well, the walmart model works better than the union model. That's all that matters. Same goes with the Chinese model kicking our ass.

Says something about reality.

How so ? do you have any examples ?

 

[Black_Label]

You honestly think that closing businesses down is going to create a prosperous middle class? Tell that to Fidal Castro or the older Chinese.

The middle class has taken a beating because of greedy companies like wal mart. They have put the middle class owned mom and pop stores out of business, just like the right wing fascists want.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Union Fail: Walmart Reports Record Sales

Despite union efforts to target retailers like Walmart, businesses are reporting record Black Friday traffic – the biggest sign yet that the unions are out of touch with the American people. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Walmart put its products on Black Friday sale, sparking a run to the stores and earning the stores record sales.


This, in my opinion, is what is wrong with Unions and many in this country. The Unions wont do the work for themselves they expect the governement to do it for them.

Confusing Cause and Effect is a fallacy that has the following general form:

A and B regularly occur together.
Therefore A is the cause of B.
This fallacy requires that there is not, in fact, a common cause that actually causes both A and B.

This fallacy is committed when a person assumes that one event must cause another just because the events occur together. More formally, this fallacy involves drawing the conclusion that A is the cause of B simply because A and B are in regular conjunction (and there is not a common cause that is actually the cause of A and B). The mistake being made is that the causal conclusion is being drawn without adequate justification.

Fallacy: Confusing Cause and Effect

“…without adequate justification,” the hallmark of conservatism.

 

[emptystep]

Union Fail: Walmart Reports Record Sales

Despite union efforts to target retailers like Walmart, businesses are reporting record Black Friday traffic – the biggest sign yet that the unions are out of touch with the American people. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Walmart put its products on Black Friday sale, sparking a run to the stores and earning the stores record sales.


This, in my opinion, is what is wrong with Unions and many in this country. The Unions wont do the work for themselves they expect the governement to do it for them.

Perhaps record sales are more due to Obama's economic recovery than unions being "out of touch with the American people." Whatever the Hell that means.

 

[Wolfsister77]

Wow, tons of great posts here.

I have never understood the mentality of "look what they got" (those who happen to be in Unions) "they shouldn't have that, it isn't fair"

Instead of "look what they got, we want that too, everybody should have that"

And I have never understood anybody defending and cheering on a company like Walmart and their business practices and the way they treat their employees over organizations like Unions that want better wages and benefits for people that work in places like Walmart.

 

[Photonic]

Wow, tons of great posts here.

I have never understood the mentality of "look what they got" (those who happen to be in Unions) "they shouldn't have that, it isn't fair"

Instead of "look what they got, we want that too, everybody should have that"

And I have never understood anybody defending and cheering on a company like Walmart and their business practices and the way they treat their employees over organizations like Unions that want better wages and benefits for people that work in places like Walmart.

They are scared of poor people not staying poor, or having a say in anything. It's the enemy of their way of life.