BREAKING NEWS!! For the FIRST TIME EVER in Wal-Mart history, several stores are ON STRIKE | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11293979 United States 10/04/2012 06:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24818156 Canada 10/04/2012 06:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seriously are you people retarded? Walmart is the only corp that is allowed to monopolize, along with their substandard practices and subhuman wages and you people think that these strikes aren't deserved? Give your head a shake, granted some of the people that goto Walmart or work there are what I would say are not always the sharpest pencil in the box, but why are they treated like dogshit from one of the richest companies in the world? Not to mention what they do to the governments and taxpayers for the breaks they get and the healthcare costs subsidies that they get as well. Watch this video at least before judging why these people are striking. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11293979 United States 10/04/2012 06:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know what they should be striking for/against.....the proliferation of slave labor goods. Put an end to the slave labor inports and watch our manufacturing come back...watch the jobs come back. Then the walmart workers will have better work options. |
Krazy Effin Ivan User ID: 11691423 United States 10/04/2012 06:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Holly Crap that's a scary thougth! Don't know about other areas but I've seen the crews at my local Wallfarts. Just pictureing those folks in a picket line scares the hell out o me. It's like halloween comes early. Burrr.. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1256231 United States 10/04/2012 06:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | what if they cant find anyone to work for low wages? but i agree if you want to strike you have the right, but employers also have the right to fire Stinking Walmart is a corporation that pays slave wages to hard working people. Walmart has been in trouble more than once for their treatment of their employees. I'm sure they can afford a higher wage. walmart is part of the new world order. boycott it. buy nothing, starve it.... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24972188 Canada 10/04/2012 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FUCK WALMART. I worked there as a truck unloader. I had to unload the truck. Organize the back shelves. Then move at least 40 pallets onto the floor from the back. That's at least 20,000 pounds. In a day. Then they would literally come back and YELL at me for not doing it faster. At 10.50 an hour. THEN AT MY SCHEDULED QUITTING TIME. They would make me stay and do stock and I would get fired if I refused to do so. And all the fucking girls get the cashier jobs and sit around the lunch room and bitch and bitch and bitch. One day I just walked off the job because a family of bat's flew at me and I was like fuck this. Now everytime I walk into walmart they say rude things and comment on how I betrayed them. REALLY? I DID SO MUCH FOR THEM!?. I WAS THE ONLY UNLOADER AND THEY STILL TREATED ME LIKE SHIT FUCK WALMART. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14873148 United States 10/04/2012 06:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good. I hope this is just the beginning of people standing up for what they deserve. I personally, havent shopped at a walmart in over 2 years. Very proud of being to find goods locally, supporting locals, and not a company that disrespects it's employees. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12582603 Canada 10/04/2012 07:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Walmart destroyed the small mom and pop stores, local buissess and farmers. All their products including their food comes from overseas. but then again, every retail store followed their example. You can get better deals shopping on line, buying directly from the manufacturer and cutting out the middle man which is the retailer. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 585354 United States 10/04/2012 07:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hell yeah. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20610884 [link to www.salon.com] Wal-Mart workers on strike Employees protesting working conditions and retaliation are flexing their organizing muscle. But the first-of-its-kind strike carries risks Today, for the first time in Wal-Mart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores are out on strike. Minutes ago, dozens of workers at Southern California stores launched a one-day work stoppage in protest of alleged retaliation against their attempts to organize. In a few hours, they’ll join supporters for a mass rally outside a Pico Rivera, Calif., store. This is the latest – and most dramatic – of the recent escalations in the decades-long struggle between organized labor and the largest private employer in the world. wow, wished I lived nearby, I would be out there supporting them!!! |
Mandevilla User ID: 9718093 United States 10/04/2012 07:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | what if they cant find anyone to work for low wages? but i agree if you want to strike you have the right, but employers also have the right to fire Stinking Walmart is a corporation that pays slave wages to hard working people. Walmart has been in trouble more than once for their treatment of their employees. I'm sure they can afford a higher wage. My step-son works at Walmart and this^^ is true. And he's also trying very hard to find another job. Walmart is a joke. The prices on their cheap Chinese crap are NOT the lowest, but price-matching and their willingness to stop an EBT user's tantrum with any kind of ridiculous deal is all that keeps most people going back. I can not wait until this Walmart cycle we're in ends and they ALL close down. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23487446 United States 10/04/2012 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Walmart corp sucks it is just a big monopoly and shut the nice mom and pop stores down that sold nice things and treated there employees well... Walmart found out how to whore this out and set up big monopolies on plain cheap junk items ( made by slaves in other countries) I hope all Wall hells go out of business one day and the mom and pop small businesses return FUCK corporate mononpolies it is slave trade |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23487446 United States 10/04/2012 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Walmart corp sucks Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23487446 it is just a big monopoly and shut the nice mom and pop stores down that sold nice things and treated their employees well... Walmart found out how to whore this out and set up big monopolies on plain cheap junk items ( made by slaves in other countries) I hope all Wall hells go out of business one day and the mom and pop small businesses return FUCK corporate mononpolies it is slave trade |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12655659 United States 10/04/2012 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I use to work for walmart and one time someone mentioned the word "Union" and for three days they took all of us in groups into the back of the building by the loading docks and told us that the Union is going door to door at 3 am threatening their employees and what ever you do don't answer the door and stay away from them at all costs, and then told us that if we mention the word union suits from corporate will come and lock the place up and interrogate all of us until we speak and rat the person out. It worked too, one older woman raised her hand and asked "Will the union men hurt us?", and store manager said, they could. The most disgusting thing I ever had to go thru on a job, I quit the next day. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12655659 United States 10/04/2012 07:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I use to work for walmart and one time someone mentioned the word "Union" and for three days they took all of us in groups into the back of the building by the loading docks and told us that the Union is going door to door at 3 am threatening their employees and what ever you do don't answer the door and stay away from them at all costs, and then told us that if we mention the word union suits from corporate will come and lock the place up and interrogate all of us until we speak and rat the person out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12655659 It worked too, one older woman raised her hand and asked "Will the union men hurt us?", and store manager said, they could. The most disgusting thing I ever had to go thru on a job, I quit the next day. lol I forgot to add they also said the union men were from the south side of Chicago and were very very threatening. I cant believe the scare tactics they used. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23487446 United States 10/04/2012 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I use to work for walmart and one time someone mentioned the word "Union" and for three days they took all of us in groups into the back of the building by the loading docks and told us that the Union is going door to door at 3 am threatening their employees and what ever you do don't answer the door and stay away from them at all costs, and then told us that if we mention the word union suits from corporate will come and lock the place up and interrogate all of us until we speak and rat the person out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12655659 It worked too, one older woman raised her hand and asked "Will the union men hurt us?", and store manager said, they could. The most disgusting thing I ever had to go thru on a job, I quit the next day. They don't want unions in there because this will force them to treat employees with respect and give them vacation time off, able to leave at close of shift > only 8 hour work days able to take sick time when needed.... human-itarian things like these they are terrified of losing control of their slave corporate tactics |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 396926 United States 10/04/2012 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeap...I worked at one of their distribution centers in 1993 or 94. We were up for our yearly raise and one of our best workers was up for his pay raise overview ( what ever they called it) They gave him a 5 cent raise and had to wait 3 months before it kicked in. I started looking for another job that day! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 396926 United States 10/04/2012 07:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I use to work for walmart and one time someone mentioned the word "Union" and for three days they took all of us in groups into the back of the building by the loading docks and told us that the Union is going door to door at 3 am threatening their employees and what ever you do don't answer the door and stay away from them at all costs, and then told us that if we mention the word union suits from corporate will come and lock the place up and interrogate all of us until we speak and rat the person out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12655659 It worked too, one older woman raised her hand and asked "Will the union men hurt us?", and store manager said, they could. The most disgusting thing I ever had to go thru on a job, I quit the next day. They don't want unions in there because this will force them to treat employees with respect and give them vacation time off, able to leave at close of shift > only 8 hour work days able to take sick time when needed.... human-itarian things like these they are terrified of losing control of their slave corporate tactics Yeap! Fuck wal-mart! |
Caelen User ID: 24419775 United States 10/04/2012 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | try unloading trucks by hand from 4 pm till 2 am and tell me it isn't a lot of hard work for less than eight bucks an hour Quoting: Pretty Good Ed My neighbor does this and hates it. He sticks with it because there isn't anything else. It seems like it might be a bit different depending on the store and what position you have. I've heard people say that to be a cashier at our local one isn't bad at all. On the flip side, a friend that worked at one in MN hated it. The money and benefits were both horrible according to her. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C |
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