Walmart workers to strike?

[Patton]

I think along the same lines of just about everyone here, but there was a time when the man was still alive that Walmart was a fairly decent place to work.

[TMF]

I typically have the attitude that if you don't like your job, go elsewhere, but then you get into a labor auction situation where there is always someone willing to work for less. It's working people undercutting working people.

 

This is how capitalism is supposed to work.  Good companies recognize the human factor, and will pay more and promote hard work a good work ethics.  Those that don't will lose their good work force and not be very successful.  Expecting entry level jobs that a 16 year old can do to pay great and have benefits is just rediculous and anyone suggesting otherwise is either stupid, lazy or selfish.

 

Most jobs at Walmart are entry level jobs that a high schooler can do.  I know this because I worked at Walmart while in high school and some of college.  However, from what I saw they promoted based on merit.  Before I quit I was running one of the departments and likely would have been a department manager in short order.  I have a friend who also worked with me at Walmart who made it a career and is now an assistant store manager.  And as far as retail companies go, I challenge folks to find other retailers that offer as much in starting pay and benefits as Walmart. 

 

The problem is, not everyone is a hard worker.  I know, shocker.  There's nothing wrong with that.  Maybe someone is content cleaning the same urinal for the rest of their lives.  I'm cool with that.  What I'm not cool with is that person demanding crap and saying they're owed more.  They ain't owed jack.  They can be replaced inside of 10 minutes.  When the evil socialists change that dynamic you no longer have the option of firing crappy workers or rewarding good ones.  You no longer can provide affordable products and services that are satisfactory.  What you end up with is the same cancerous disease that has infected EVERY SINGLE LAST COMPANY THAT HAS A DAMN UNION! 

 

For crying out loud!  How do folks not see the correlation between unions and failure?  It has played out thousands of times.  In the end guess who loses their job?  Yep, that worker that the union socialists scream and whine about so much.  Wake up union drones.  You are just a means to power for the union leadership.  You are a commodity that is exploited by unions, and when they're done ruining your life, taking away your pension and convincing you that it's all the company's fault, guess where they go next?  Yeah, they move on to the next host to suck dry.  Walmart is in the breech now.  Hopefully they hang on to their sack and shut down these union slime that are behind this movement.

[Guest copperhead_1911]

Unions have helped ship themselves out of jobs plenty of places. I am all for free enterprise and by all means people can unionize, but $30 an hour for jobs only worth $15 that you can have done in china for $2 are not doing anything except talking themselves out of jobs.

 

Heck many union members are starting to see its the union bosses that stay ok and the ones who have been in forever in spite of ability, but younger ones pay as much dues often times and yet they are the ones out of jobs because of the overpayment.

 

McDonald's is even having employees try that crap.