Walmart walkout: workers mount black Friday job action

[estesbob]

Coal miners and many other class of workers were once little more than slaves who could lose their jobs. Then the unions changed all that, creating the great middle class in the process.

The decline of unions had led to lower real wages and a greater disparity in earnings. I, for one, hope this spurs more interest in union membership.

John

Then the aObama administration stepped in and shut them all down.

 

[oldcelt]

I, for one, hope this helps people to wake up and see reality before ALL the jobs leave the USA. We can’t play these kind of butt-clutching ridiculous games any more. GLOBALISM HAS ARRIVED. WE HAVE TO COMPETE.

We don’t have to sell our souls to compete. Globalism has not one thing to do with a living wage at a store or a mine in the US…and you use of the term butt-clutching ridiculous games is very telling.

Walmart can fire these people…and the next group, and so on, but, eventually people will wise up to their games and refuse to apply. Then the real talking begins. Add to that labor supportive people shopping elsewhere and you have the beginnings of a movement.

John

 

[Seeker1961]

Look. Anybody can work at Walmart. It’s a fact. These employees are easy to replace on the job. There are people just waiting for a job who will appreciate it. If they strike, it’s a terrible risk they’re taking.

So they have no expectation of being treated with dignity and fairness because they are easily replaced?

I admire the folks that work at my local Walmart. Most of them could just as easily be sitting at home, collecting benefits, and might even be making more money-but instead they have chosen to take a job. They work long hours, often doing physically demanding work, for low pay and for a bonus they get to have people look down at them as though they had less value as human being s because of it.

 

[iloveangels]

if you are unemployed i reccommend you showt up at your local walmart saturday. Should be lots of jobs available

bingo!

 

[iloveangels]

What exactly are they risking? A minimum wage job at Walmart? That doesn’t sound like a whole heck of a lot to me.

Apparently that’s what they think. Maybe they don’t want them and should give them to somebody else.

 

[iloveangels]

So they have no expectation of being treated with dignity and fairness because they are easily replaced?

I admire the folks that work at my local Walmart. Most of them could just as easily be sitting at home, collecting benefits, and might even be making more money-but instead they have chosen to take a job. They work long hours, often doing physically demanding work, for low pay and for a bonus they get to have people look down at them as though they had less value as human being s because of it.

It’s a job, seeker. Don’t get all slobbery over it. The drool is hard on my keyboard.

 

[Seeker1961]

It’s a job, seeker. Don’t get all slobbery over it. The drool is hard on my keyboard.

They are PEOPLE. People who have the same desires for a good life for their family that I would assume that you have. People who share the same inherent human dignity that you have.

 

[iloveangels]

They are PEOPLE. People who have the same desires for a good life for their family that I would assume that you have. People who share the same inherent human dignity that you have.

It’s a job, seeker. Get a grip.

If the people who currently work at Walmart don’t value their jobs, they’re going to lose them to someone else who values them more. That’s how it works in the real world.

 

[oldcelt]

Apparently that’s what they think. Maybe they don’t want them and should give them to somebody else.

In my town Walmart is habitually understaffed because people have come to realize that they are just another piece of equipment. Walmart can no longer get the applications they need to staff their store.

Serves them right.

John

 

[iloveangels]

In my town Walmart is habitually understaffed because people have come to realize that they are just another piece of equipment. Walmart can no longer get the applications they need to staff their store.

Serves them right.

John

Walmart is a business. It’s not a social welfare agency. It has to make money or it has to close the store. That’s the point of a business. You may not like that. Whatever.

 

[oldcelt]

Walmart is a business. It’s not a social welfare agency. It has to make money or it has to close the store. That’s the point of a business. You may not like that. Whatever.

The question is not profit…but how much profit.

 

[KostyaJMJ]

Apparently that’s what they think. Maybe they don’t want them and should give them to somebody else.

You do realize there are minimum wage jobs available to anybody with a pulse? That is why the threat of unemployment or “you’re a replaceable cog” isn’t going to go over. If Walmart doesn’t treat their workers fairly they are going to end up with the worst workers possible and it will be even scarier than it already is to enter their stores.

 

[iloveangels]

You do realize there are minimum wage jobs available to anybody with a pulse? That is why the threat of unemployment or your a replaceable cog isn’t going to go over. If Walmart doesn’t treat their workers fairly they are going to end up with the worst workers possible and it will be even scarier than it already is to enter their stores.

Yeah, well that’s something that Walmart has to decide for themselves. If you don’t like to shop at Walmart, shop someplace else.

 

[oldcelt]

You do realize there are minimum wage jobs available to anybody with a pulse? That is why the threat of unemployment or your a replaceable cog isn’t going to go over. If Walmart doesn’t treat their workers fairly they are going to end up with the worst workers possible and it will be even scarier than it already is to enter their stores.

You said it…the days of people just rolling over to big business are coming to an end.

 

[Seeker1961]

Walmart is a business. It’s not a social welfare agency. It has to make money or it has to close the store. That’s the point of a business. You may not like that. Whatever.

Make as much money as you can, no matter what, right?

Walmart is making MASSIVE profits, so I guess whatever they do to their workers to get them doesn’t matter. After all, people who work at a job like that have no real value, because if they were better people they’d have better jobs and get treated better. They deserve whatever they get.

Those aren’t the ethics I was taught in my Catholic university or my Catholic grammar school,for that matter. I don’t like people being treated like disposable objects no matter who is doing it.

 

[iloveangels]

You said it…the days of people just rolling over to big business are coming to an end.

Really?

Dream on, John. People shop at Walmart and Target for the prices. They’re not going to stop doing that. If Walmart were to disappear tomorrow, they’d find the next cheapest big store and go there and then you could hate them too.

 

[oldcelt]

Really?

Dream on, John. People shop at Walmart and Target for the prices. They’re not going to stop doing that. If Walmart were to disappear tomorrow, they’d find the next cheapest big store and go there and then you could hate them too.

It’s tough to run a store without workers. Eventually, people will get tired of shoddy service and move their money elsewhere. Plus, continued pressure by organized labor will be like the death of a thousand cuts.

You can’t treat people like a commodity and expect to get away with it forever.

John

 

[iloveangels]

It’s tough to run a store without workers. Eventually, people will get tired of shoddy service and move their money elsewhere. Plus, continued pressure by organized labor will be like the death of a thousand cuts.

Welcome to Business 101. You fancy yourself a Walmart executive, do you? It’s their job to make all these decisions and I"m sure they will. It’s a business, John.

You can’t treat people like a commodity and expect to get away with it forever.

Like the unions do, you mean? Get a grip, John. The world doesn’t work by the simplistic rules you have here. This is 1950s talk. And this is about business, not some social science theory.

Trust me, you can say any kind of wild thing you want, but it’s not going to change the fact that these people are skating on thin ice. Not showing up at work is deadly if you work in a store. That’s how the business works.

 

[Seeker1961]

It’s tough to run a store without workers. Eventually, people will get tired of shoddy service and move their money elsewhere. Plus, continued pressure by organized labor will be like the death of a thousand cuts.

You can’t treat people like a commodity and expect to get away with it forever.

John

There’s a reason that people pay higher prices to shop at Publix, better customer service. Workers are paid better, given fair treatment and because of that they provide better service to the public.

 

[iloveangels]

There’s a reason that people pay higher prices to shop at Publix, better customer service. Workers are paid better, given fair treatment and because of that they provide better service to the public.

Well, seeker if you like that store better, go for it. People can shop where they want.