Internal Walmart Document Reveals Policy Of Paying Poverty Wages

[percysunshine]

Walmart wages are the same as Target. Why does everyone pick on Walmart and not Target?

Walmart is owned by identifiable people, which makes hating much easier than some faceless corporation.

Isn't Target a French outfit?

The French have always been targets.

 

[Bfgrn]

I've no idea why anyone would expect any company to have a policy that pays wages above what the market bears. No one working at Wal-Mart, to the best of my knowledge, is a slave or an indentured servant.

Actually taxpayers are the 'slaves or an indentured servants.

Wal-Mart internalizes their profits, and externalizes their costs.

Wal-Mart also exploits taxpayers, for it is what Ronald Reagan would denounce as the leading corporate welfare queen. It's estimated that Wal-Mart's government subsidies total a whopping $2.7 billion, or $2,100 per employee.

One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,000 per year because of the need for federal aid (such as housing assistance, tax credits, and health insurance assistance) for Wal-Mart's low-wage employees.

I see a lot of stats, but again, why would a company pay more for labor than the market bears? The company is responsible for whatever arrangements are arrived at between it and the worker. Any assistance rendered to people by the government is the concern of the government and individual, not the employer.

Again, they are neither slaves nor indentured servants. They are free to leave upon finding better work, as I am sure many do. The turnover a Wal-Mart must be astronomical.

Your screen name is very appropriate.

We, the People ARE THE GOVERNMENT. We, the People PAY assistance rendered to people.

 

[Rozman]

Come Black Friday people still stuffed from overeating turkey will flock to the nearest Walmart and
will fill the shopping cart with all sorts of stuff charging it all to their credit cards....

You guys don't shop there and they will close the store and fire everyone.

 

[bripat9643]

Your screen name is very appropriate.

We, the People ARE THE GOVERNMENT. We, the People PAY assistance rendered to people.

No we aren't. If I was the government, then I could stop paying taxes to myself. Why can't I do that?

 

[bripat9643]

"Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America."

Says "Bernie Sanders." Real credible source, there.

 

[bripat9643]

The whole economy does better if everyone has money to spend. $11= 1968's min wage- Great Society before Pubs got a hold of it...

If everyone has more money to spend, then the economy is doing better, by definition. So what you said is that the economy does better when the economy does better. That's a tautology. I'll bet you don't even understand why that's a problem with your logic.

 

[bripat9643]

Labor costs are less than 20% of cost

Says who? Labor typically receives about 70% of the Gross Domestic Product, according to government figures.

 

[bripat9643]

If standing up for worker's rights and standing up for local mom & pop businesses makes me a 'comrade', I would much rather be a 'comrade' than a Monica Lewinsky for the opulent like you...wipe that white shit dripping down your chin.

Yeah, it pretty much does make you a Komrade, because that's the terminology every Komrade uses to describe his agenda. You're an Obama fluffer, so I think you're the one with "white shit" dripping down your chin.

 

[bripat9643]

Actually taxpayers are the 'slaves or an indentured servants.

Wal-Mart internalizes their profits, and externalizes their costs.

Wal-Mart also exploits taxpayers, for it is what Ronald Reagan would denounce as the leading corporate welfare queen. It's estimated that Wal-Mart's government subsidies total a whopping $2.7 billion, or $2,100 per employee.

One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,000 per year because of the need for federal aid (such as housing assistance, tax credits, and health insurance assistance) for Wal-Mart's low-wage employees.

Walmart receives no federal aid. that's just a bogus accusation invented by commies like you. Walmart receives no housing assistance, tax credits or health insurance assistance of any kind. If Walmart's employees receive government benefits, that's their responsibility, not Walmart's.

 

[bripat9643]

Their profits are also underwritten by those who DO pay taxes. Lisa is just one of many underemployed people whose under compensated labor is augmented by government programs, and Walmart DEPENDS on those programs to make up what THEY do not incur in overhead via livable wages, hours, benefits, AND in-kind payroll TAXES.

They aren't "under compensated." If they were, they would go elsewhere. Your "theory" is that you or some other commie ideologues can somehow determine what "adequate compensation" is independent of the market rate. Economists have shown that theory to be bunk time and time again.

 

[Katzndogz]

Lisa works at a deli counter. She is paying off student loan debt. Lisa has a college education. If Lisa thought that TWO YEARS of slinging sliced meat was a career path for a college grad she was wrong. Is this Wal Mart's fault? No. Lisa can be replaced by someone else who doesn't have a college degree and is happy to have a job. Lisa thinks that slinging sliced meat deserves more money. She is wrong.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Lisa works at a deli counter. She is paying off student loan debt. Lisa has a college education. If Lisa thought that TWO YEARS of slinging sliced meat was a career path for a college grad she was wrong. Is this Wal Mart's fault? No. Lisa can be replaced by someone else who doesn't have a college degree and is happy to have a job. Lisa thinks that slinging sliced meat deserves more money. She is wrong.

People are paid for what the job is worth, not what they think they are worth.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Increasing the wages or adding more workers=higher prices! Do you want to pay more?

I would GLADLY pay more if it meant the employees were able to afford the rent and groceries.

Typical Yanks like yourself don't give a shit about the employees though. All you lot care is buying cheap shit.

No you wouldn't LOL

But its funny you think anyone believes you

 

[Noomi]

Lisa works at a deli counter. She is paying off student loan debt. Lisa has a college education. If Lisa thought that TWO YEARS of slinging sliced meat was a career path for a college grad she was wrong. Is this Wal Mart's fault? No. Lisa can be replaced by someone else who doesn't have a college degree and is happy to have a job. Lisa thinks that slinging sliced meat deserves more money. She is wrong.

She is entitled to more than $9 an hour. Unfortunately for her, employees in the US have no rights at all.

 

[Noomi]

Increasing the wages or adding more workers=higher prices! Do you want to pay more?

I would GLADLY pay more if it meant the employees were able to afford the rent and groceries.

Typical Yanks like yourself don't give a shit about the employees though. All you lot care is buying cheap shit.

No you wouldn't LOL

But its funny you think anyone believes you

You would be wrong. I shop at Target and Kmart quite happily - because over here, those workers are paid more than DOUBLE what your employees get at those stores.

So stick that up your bum.

 

[Barb]

The Welfare Queen named Walmart

Wal-Mart is the model "low-road" corporation in the global economy. Its efficiency is celebrated; but its exploitation is caustic. The average pay of a Wal-Mart employee is $8.23 per hour, or an average yearly income of $14,000 -- not enough to lift a family out of poverty. Wal-Mart is infamous for requiring workers to work overtime off the books. It's been cited for locking workers in plants overnight. The company has been hauled into court for discriminating against female employees. And it is viciously, rabidly anti-union, crushing any attempt by its workers to organize to gain a fair share of the profits they help generate.

But Wal-Mart doesn't merely follow the low road; it drives its suppliers and its competitors into the same race. When Wal-Mart comes to town, it purposefully wipes out small mom-and-pop stores, leaving small towns looking like they were hit by a neutron bomb -- buildings intact, but people gone. Wal-Mart also undercuts big competitors that have unions and pay decent wages and benefits. They must slash wages, cut back on benefits or hang it up.

Given its size in the United States, Wal-Mart is a major force in driving wages down and forcing cutbacks in benefits. It is a central reason why we have an economy in which CEO salaries are up, stocks are up, but wages are down.

In China, Wal-Mart pushes its suppliers to lower their costs, generating sweatshops in which young workers -- primarily women -- are forced to work grotesque hours at subsistence wages. According to The Washington Post, Wal-Mart even pressures its suppliers to pay less than the Chinese minimum wage.

Wal-Mart also exploits taxpayers, for it is what Ronald Reagan would denounce as the leading corporate welfare queen. It's estimated that Wal-Mart's government subsidies total a whopping $2.7 billion, or $2,100 per employee. An internal memo to the board leaked recently reported that "our [health care] coverage is expensive for low-income families, and Wal-Mart has a significant percentage of associates and their children on public assistance." In fact, nearly one-half of the children of Wal-Mart employees are either on Medicaid or have no insurance at all.

While Wal-Mart is driving down wages and driving up public health care costs, its CEO and its owners are making out like bandits. The Walton family is the richest in the world. And they use their private wealth to foster their low-road policies. The Waltons donate millions to politics. Most goes to Republicans who defend their low-wage sweatshop practices, while 20 percent goes to buy a few business Democrats and divide the opposition. They are leading contributors to the voucher movement seeking to privatize education, and staunch advocates of the free trade policies that have stymied efforts to link trade access to the right to organize, environmental protection or even a crackdown on sweatshops.

Across America, people are starting to realize the stark reality: Wal-Mart's triumph is the defeat of middle-class America. If Wal-Mart sets the pace, Americans will pay the price, in declining wages, rising health care costs, longer hours, worse workplace conditions and rising personal taxes to offset soaring corporate subsidies.

thank you comrade!!! whens the march?

If standing up for worker's rights and standing up for local mom & pop businesses makes me a 'comrade', I would much rather be a 'comrade' than a Monica Lewinsky for the opulent like you...wipe that white shit dripping down your chin.

Someone in another thread referenced Leona Helmsley, and HER attitude towards "the help" and the lower economic classes back in her day. She was REVILED back then. Today she would be defended, celebrated, and lionized.

We are devolving as a species.

 

[Barb]

Actually taxpayers are the 'slaves or an indentured servants.

Wal-Mart internalizes their profits, and externalizes their costs.

Wal-Mart also exploits taxpayers, for it is what Ronald Reagan would denounce as the leading corporate welfare queen. It's estimated that Wal-Mart's government subsidies total a whopping $2.7 billion, or $2,100 per employee.

One 200-employee Wal-Mart store may cost federal taxpayers $420,000 per year because of the need for federal aid (such as housing assistance, tax credits, and health insurance assistance) for Wal-Mart's low-wage employees.

Walmart receives no federal aid. that's just a bogus accusation invented by commies like you. Walmart receives no housing assistance, tax credits or health insurance assistance of any kind. If Walmart's employees receive government benefits, that's their responsibility, not Walmart's.

You really CAN'T keep up, can you?

 

[Barb]

"Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America."

Says "Bernie Sanders." Real credible source, there.

What do you find incredible about Bernie Sanders? Be specific, if you can.

 

[Meathead]

So many idiots. No one intentionally pays more for labor or anything else than the market would bear. Walmart employees are not chained nor are they indentured servants. They may leave for any reason at any time and they do. The most idiotic thing I've heard yet is that the public subsidizes their workforce. It is not the responsibility of the employer if government decides to support those on low wages. That is between the government and the recipient. If these jobs were not available, the taxpayer would have to support those unemployed to a far greater degree than they already do.

I have respect for those who try to support themselves relative to the parasites who are satisfied with relying completely on the taxpayer or the bleeding hearts who insist employees be paid more than market value. Perhaps they should be give more to charity, thus staunching the internal bleeding.

 

[Seawytch]

"Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America."

Says "Bernie Sanders." Real credible source, there.

Says Politifact...they rated it True.