Welcome To Wal-Mart. How May I Help You?

[reprob8]

Interesting piece from the AFL-CIO. Food for thought...


http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/walmart/upload/walmartreport_031406.pdf

[guest]

Interesting piece from the AFL-CIO. Food for thought...


http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/walmart/upload/walmartreport_031406.pdf

you found the secret simtech retirement plan!!!!

[reprob8]

you found the secret simtech retirement plan!!!!

I think I'll stick with something more lucrative, like being a caddy at a miniature golf course.

[papajoe]

Just out of curiosity, why is Walmart "bad" for "forcing" people to the Medicaid program. If jobs weren't available at Walmart, how many of there workers would still be on other assistance programs. Nearly half of Walmart's employees are part time. No company I can think of offers part time employees health care.

It was in Oakland, Ca., where Walmart had 350-400 job openings and had 11,000 thousands applicants.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/17/MNGDPE91AH1.DTL

No one is forcing anyone to work at Walmart.

Also, why isn't there this same uproar about the BIG OIL companies? They turn in the biggest financial profits ever and I don't hear about anyone passing legislation to force them to pay health benefits for the poor guy working at the local gas stations.

Just my two cents.

A Walmart stock holder (?)

[Textech]

Let us not forget that Uncle Sam has tacked on a Medicare/ Medicaid tax onto each and every one of our paychecks. Including the Wal-Mart employees. This is matched by the employer. So the healthcare is being payed for by the employee, and Wal-Mart. Supplemented by those of us who pay higher taxes. I would rather see a Wal-Mart employee receive this benefit than someone who just doesn't feel the need to work but is still supported by the rest of us taxpayers.

[reprob8]

1. Having spoken to Wal-Mart employees, and some of their spouses, almost to a man they say that the health care premiums they have to pay are are too expensive for their budgets, and what benefits they do receive are not worth the cost. Part-time employees have to wait a full year before being eligible for health insurance. Wal-Mart has one of the highest turn over rates for a company its size.

2. This is also a company which at one time had a practice of locking their employees in, and forcing them to work overtime off the books, in violation of the FLSA. Ditto for the fact they knowingly hired contractors who used illegal immigrant workers. In 2005, it settled a law suit for abuse if illegal immigrant workers for $11 million. Chump change when one considers that it had $288 billion in sales in 2004.

3. We would refer you to the following, one being an LA Times article on Wal-Mart's practices, the other an episode from PBS's Frontline series:

http://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/wire/la-fi-walmart23nov2303,0,2188281.story?page=8&coll=sns-ap-business-headlines

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

4. In its push to drive down what it pays its suppliers, Wal-Mart has - and there are those who say it's by design - pushed the export of US manufacturing jobs overseas

5. There are companies out there, much smaller than Wal-Mart in terms of income and employee base, who do provide their part time work force with affordable health care benefits. UPS and FedEx are two companies that come to mind.

6. Wal-Mart remains vehemently anti-union as witnessed by its closure of several stores in Quebec Province, when its employees voted for union representation.

7. If we are to carry your logic to its full conclusion, then why should any company provide health benefits for its employees, since both are already paying for it via the Medicaid/Medicare tax. But somehow I sincerely doubt either respondent has opted out of any company-defined health care plan.

8. The fact that thousands applied for several hundred low-paying jobs is perhaps not so much indicative of an employer offering great jobs as it is an economy where many are looking to take any kind of employment they can find. While true that no one is forcing them to work at Wal-Mart, it hardly constitutes a choice. To claim otherwise is akin to claiming that the Donner Party had a choice between starving to death and cannibalism.

[Egyptian]

Do what I do, don't shop at Wal-Mart, they only sell junk anyway

Egyptian

[The Pirate]

yep, costco junk is alot better, and i love the huge sized packaging!!! i feel like i'm in that old tv show "land of the giants" anyone need a biscoti, i got a 4 gal jar of them!!!

[chivero]

its pretty sad when wal-mart squeezes out any competition and the only choice is their crap rants: not only does this monopolize the way we shop it kills the local economy and brings in noise pollution and crime to the area rants:

[PhantomPharter]

When Russell Corporation anoounced job cuts 2-3 months ago they said it was due to Wally World telling them that if they (Russell) did not keep the prices low for Wally World to buy from them, then they would buy from someone else. Saw yesterday where Wally World expexts to hire up to 150,000 in China as they expand more over there.mad:

[PhantomPharter]

When Russell Corporation announced job cuts 2-3 months ago they said it was due to Wally World telling them that if they (Russell) did not keep the prices low for Wally World to buy from them, then they would buy from someone else. Saw yesterday where Wally World expexts to hire up to 150,000 in China as they expand more over there.mad:

[woodchopper]

Less cost for shipping since all that crap is made in China anyway.

[little jake]

What ever happened to Wal*mart's commercials, "Buy American" I guess just like everything else the "golden parachute/handshake/handcuffs" took hold.

On a side note, most of what I've heard here is, believe it or not, in a fiction book called "Company". In my opinion as a fellow simtech you will not belive the laughs you will get out of this book with all of the junk I'm sure most of us have seen/been through.

[Simmi]

You may have to sign-up to view, but give this a go.

Big-Box Mart Song http://www.jibjab.com/Movies/MSN.aspx?contentid=122

[reprob8]

What ever happened to Wal*mart's commercials, "Buy American"...


They did buy American...The House and Senate.

[JarHead]

They did buy American...The House and Senate.
Quit 'beating around the BUSH' & get to the point!
Oops, sorry, perhaps that was the point.

[reprob8]

It's more like the Bush that has been beating us around.cruch: