Walmart:11-21-06 Wal-Mart slashes food prices in half ahead of Thanksgiving

[EagleKeeper]

The area that Wal-Mart is putting in the distribution center is a lower income/depressed area

To target a given employer for excessive taxes is unfair. The governer is proper in that regard. By setting the example of targeted taxation, what is then to stop the MD government from changing the employee limits to capture other companies.

When a company feels that the business climate is negative, it may then can choose to expand elsewhere and/or pull out of a state. Instead of helping the area, the closings will increase poverty in the area. Remeber all the complains about hi-tech jobs being replaced by low tech jobs and the loss of income. Now you could be advocating the complete termiantion of income, forcing the state to absorb the cost instead of workiners adding to the economic health.

Just because one does not like the way a company operates does not mean that others should be sacrificed to the god of socialism.

Economics 201.

Before one complains/posts about what is happening and the resulting impact, attempt to do some research on the actual situation.

What is Wal-Mart paying it's employee's at the center.
What is the Wal-mart benifit coverage.
How do other employers stack up against Wal-Mart for that type of work.

Note that this is not a store that they are talking about.

 

[nergee]

HEALTH BENEFITS
Our health plan covers most major medical expenses. The company contributes to the cost of health benefits and we offer affordable Associate plans. There is no limit for most health coverage. 60% of our Associates tell us they joined Wal-Mart because of our benefits. We also offer:

* Dental Coverage
* Company-Paid and/or Dependent & Optional Life Insurance
* Business Travel Accident Insurance
* Long- and Short-Term Disability
* Illness Protection Plan "

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Instead Walmart gets to continue to employ people that can't afford health care and tax the health care system

Gee, well without Wal-Mart, I gues those people would work at small mom 'n' pop shops that do provide health care, etc.... :disgust: And we get to pay higher prices for products because of inefficiency. I love the logic of morons.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Maryland Governor Vetoes Wal-Mart Bill and puts Walmart ahead of it's citizens.

5-20-2005 Maryland Governor Vetoes Wal-Mart Bill

The retail giant plans a distribution center in this lower Eastern Shore town.

The Fair Share Health Care Act, passed by lawmakers in April, would require a company with more than 10,000 employees to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll on health care benefits or pay more into the state Medicaid fund. Currently, only Wal-Mart fits that criterion.

Wal-Mart could reconsider the plan if the General Assembly overrides the veto when it reconvenes in January, said Castro-Wright. The Senate passed the bill with enough votes to override a veto, while the House margin was just short of the number needed for an override.

"Gov. Ehrlich should be ashamed for literally standing with big corporate interests rather than Maryland's working families"

hey op, put this in your 1st post?

btw- pass a bill that targets only 1 company. i think that's discriminatory.

if that bill passes, walmart just sheds employees/stores till they are below 10000 employees in md. who loses? The consumer.

Keep govt out of this. let the market decide! (i like inexpensive stuff.)

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Too much focus on Walmart is a distraction from the greater economic issues that allow Walmart's low wages.

I am somewhat saddened that so many people are focussing on Walmart's low wages and blaming Walmart while ignoring the multitude of other issues that allow the Walmart wage problem to exist. After all, Walmart is just an economic entity that tries to earn a profit--it functions under the laws and dynamics of the greater U.S. economy.

It's too bad that people won't direct their attention to the real issues--the hard issues that no one wants to talk about--the ones that increase the supply of labor, allowing Walmart to pay low wages.

The real issue is -- labor wage arbitrage caused by a merger of the United States labor force with the billions of impoverished people in other countries. More specifically: foreign outsourcing of manufacturing and services, the replacement of American labor by foreigners on H-1B and L-1 visas, mass legal immigration, and mass illegal immigration.

Personally, I really don't have a huge problem with Walmart and I don't blame Walmart for our problems. Rather, I blame our politicians, our economists, and the American voters who keep electing and supporting the politiicans and economists who are failing to advocate policies that further rational economic selfish interests of Americans.

Walmart does not function in a vacuum. Go after the real cause, not the symptoms.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: WhipperSnapper
Too much focus on Walmart is a distraction from the greater economic issues that allow Walmart's low wages.

I am somewhat saddened that so many people are focussing on Walmart's low wages and blaming Walmart while ignoring the multitude of other issues that allow the Walmart wage problem to exist. After all, Walmart is just an economic entity that tries to earn a profit--it functions under the laws and dynamics of the greater U.S. economy.

It's too bad that people won't direct their attention to the real issues--the hard issues that no one wants to talk about--the ones that increase the supply of labor, allowing Walmart to pay low wages.

The real issue is -- labor wage arbitrage caused by a merger of the United States labor force with the billions of impoverished people in other countries. More specifically: foreign outsourcing of manufacturing and services, the replacement of American labor by foreigners on H-1B and L-1 visas, mass legal immigration, and mass illegal immigration.

Personally, I really don't have a huge problem with Walmart and I don't blame Walmart for our problems.

Rather, I blame our politicians, our economists, and the American voters who keep electing and supporting the politiicans and economists who are failing to advocate policies that further rational economic selfish interests of Americans.

Walmart does not function in a vacuum. Go after the real cause, not the symptoms.

Well you see many of those voters that support all that right in here.

Vote for me is a vote for the Real America :thumbsup:

 

[dmcowen674]

Worldwide effort to bring Walmart down on:

8-21-2005 In globalization twist, unions target Wal-Mart worldwide

A global coalition of unions is launching an unprecedented campaign to organize workers around the world at US retail giant Wal-Mart, seeking to bring a new level of globalization to the labor movement.

The Wal-Mart campaign was set to be officially launched at a meeting in Chicago Monday of Union Network International (UNI), a group that includes 900 unions in some 140 countries.

According to a statement from UFCW, Wal-Mart "pays poverty wages, ships jobs to countries where sweatshops are prevalent and, in the US, shifts enormous health care costs onto taxpayers."

"We reject the Wal-Mart way and, at Chicago, UNI will be imagining a better future for working people everywhere," added Jennings.

"We will work with the UFCW and those unions already established in Wal-Mart in Europe and elsewhere to stop a damaging race to the bottom."

Dan Cornfield, a Vanderbilt University professor of sociology, says the plan is a bold effort to reinvigorate the labor movement, and is reminiscent of the 1930s, when unions took on the growing manufacturing sector in the United States.

"UNI taking on Wal-Mart is also the classic showdown between David and Goliath," he said.

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
12-21-2004 Wal-Mart unveils cut-price laptop under 500 dollars

I know the laptop is an old topic bumped up, but check out this story about the Wal-Mart Balance laptop. The vendor hacked the BIOS to report a faster CPU than was actually installed. Walmart did offer compensation to purchasers when they found out about this, but the real problem is that Walmart's culture of ruthlessly beating down vendors for price cuts encourages cost cutting in quality and outright fraud like in this case.

 

[dmcowen674]

Wally caught again:

9-19-2005 Wal-Mart Accused of Denying Lunch Breaks

Lawyers representing about 116,000 former and current Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees in California told a jury Monday that the world's largest retailer systematically and illegally denied workers lunch breaks.

Employees who work at least six hours must have a 30-minute, unpaid lunch break. If they do not get that, the law requires they are paid for an additional hour of pay.

The Bentonville, Ark.-based company demanded employees to punch back in from lunch and work during their meal breaks.

In essence, workers were provided a shorter meal period than the law allows.

Shares of Wal-Mart rose 14 cents to close at $44.01 Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.

 

[Pabster]

Now that shouldn't surprise anyone.

Literally, a lawsuit is filed every minute against Wal-Mart in this country. Sure, a good deal of them are frivolous. But the ones that aren't show a clear pattern of abuse by Wal-Mart.

:thumbsdown: to Wal-Mart. Sam is probably rolling around in his grave at the way his greedy kids have taken the company...

 

[zendari]

If they violated the law they should pay.

 

[1EZduzit]

Lunch break? You mean part-time employees get to have a lunch break? Hell, they only work 6 hours a day can't they wait and eat after work? Bunch of whining lazy aholes if you ask me. They'll be out looking for a new job before the ink is dry on the settlement check.

 

[dmcowen674]

Looks like Wally World will be closing in Florida.

9-30-2005 Florida Wal-Mart Workers Start to Organize

Searching for a voice in their work lives, employees of some central Florida Wal-Mart stores have formed a workers group to collectively air complaints about what they claim is shoddy treatment by the retail giant.

About 250 employees and former employees from 40 central Florida stores have joined the fledgling Wal-Mart Workers Association, spurred by what they say is a reduction of hours and schedule changes recently that may jeopardize health care benefits for some.

The members say they hope their efforts will persuade the company to listen to its people and make some changes.

The company, however, says most of its associates are happy, and characterized the effort in Florida as another attempt by the unions to get their hands in the pockets of some of its 1.3 million workers in the United States.

"It's within (employees') legal rights to do that, but this group is a wolf in sheep's clothing," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Christi Gallagher said. "This is a labor organization attempting to masquerade as something else."

Claire Middleton, 70, said she worked a full-time day job for four years taking in returns at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Pinellas Park near St. Petersburg. The store changed her schedule in July, telling her she would have to be available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week if she wanted to keep getting shifts.

Her bad eyes make it difficult to drive after dark and she's afraid of losing her health care benefits if she doesn't work enough hours. She makes $8.56 an hour.

Rveva Barrett, 61, was working as the community involvement coordinator at the same store, even appearing in a national Wal-Mart commercial last year with community leaders. Her job was eliminated recently and she was told she could take another position with a $200 a month pay cut or leave.

Both women have joined the workers association, paying the $5-a-month dues.

"This is a really bad thing that's happening to all the people at Wal-Mart," Barrett said. "Unless we do something about it now, it's going to get worse."

Gallagher, the Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said the incidents are isolated.

 

[zendari]

Go Walmart! :thumbsup:

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: zendari
Go Walmart! :thumbsup:

Go workers :thumbsup:

 

[dirtboy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: zendari
Go Walmart! :thumbsup:

Go workers :thumbsdown:

You said you want American's to have 1,000,000,000 per year salaries. You should hope Walmart goes away. Dave says those jobs are bad and the only good jobs are those working for the goverment.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: dirtboy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: zendari
Go Walmart! :thumbsup:

Go workers :thumbsdown:

You said you want American's to have 1,000,000,000 per year salaries. You should hope Walmart goes away. Dave says those jobs are bad and the only good jobs are those working for the goverment.

Those are some awful drugs, you're getting ripped off big time.

 

[dirtboy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: dirtboy

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: zendari
Go Walmart! :thumbsup:

Go workers :thumbsdown:

You said you want American's to have 1,000,000,000 per year salaries. You should hope Walmart goes away. Dave says those jobs are bad and the only good jobs are those working for the goverment.

Those are some awful drugs, you're getting ripped off big time.

So now Dave wants more Walmarts?!? Which is it, more or less??

You're the one on the drugs. First you say you don't want any Walmart's. Then you cry at the thought that they could close down and people will lose their low paying jobs.

Captain Hypocrite, this is for you:

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: dirtboy
So now Dave wants more Walmarts?!? Which is it, more or less??

You're the one on the drugs. First you say you don't want any Walmart's. Then you cry at the thought that they could close down and people will lose their low paying jobs.

Captain Hypocrite, this is for you:

It's kind of like him calling for $20 gas to stick it to the SUV gas guzzlers then claiming that driving is for the rich.

 

[dirtboy]

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: dirtboy
So now Dave wants more Walmarts?!? Which is it, more or less??

You're the one on the drugs. First you say you don't want any Walmart's. Then you cry at the thought that they could close down and people will lose their low paying jobs.

Captain Hypocrite, this is for you:

It's kind of like him calling for $20 gas to stick it to the SUV gas guzzlers then claiming that driving is for the rich.

I know... that one still makes me laugh. :laugh:

 

[EagleKeeper]

WalMart gets unionized; workers lose jobs, prices go up.

Yup - Union makes out like a bandit - to heck with the poor working stiffs.

 

[imported_Aelius]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
WalMart gets unionized; workers lose jobs, prices go up.

Yup - Union makes out like a bandit - to heck with the poor working stiffs.

Employees don't organize unions. Bad employers do.

 

[NoSmirk]

Originally posted by: Aelius

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
WalMart gets unionized; workers lose jobs, prices go up.

Yup - Union makes out like a bandit - to heck with the poor working stiffs.

Employees don't organize unions. Bad employers do.

Unions don't fix bad employers either..

 

[imported_Aelius]

Originally posted by: NoSmirk

Originally posted by: Aelius

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
WalMart gets unionized; workers lose jobs, prices go up.

Yup - Union makes out like a bandit - to heck with the poor working stiffs.

Employees don't organize unions. Bad employers do.

Unions don't fix bad employers either..

Right. It's a band-aid solution. A very big one at that.

The only true way to fix the issues at an employer is at the source. Good luck with that. Happens about as often as the parting of the Red Sea.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: NoSmirk

Originally posted by: Aelius

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
WalMart gets unionized; workers lose jobs, prices go up.

Yup - Union makes out like a bandit - to heck with the poor working stiffs.

Employees don't organize unions. Bad employers do.

Unions don't fix bad employers either..

This place is infested with idiots. Start by researching waterfront workers/dock workers history on google.

Cliffs: First half of 20th century Deaths every week, 14 hour work days for pittance with a small shack on ports property. Today, safe, great pensons/401k healthcare and some of the best paid low education labor @ $140,000 a year. A freind of my Brother in HS became a dockworker and got a beach house in Newport (very expensive RE).