We recently heard the astounding statistic that 6 members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have a total wealth of $93 billion – more than the bottom 30% of Americans combined. At the same time, the family, which controls nearly 50% of company stock is raking in more than $2 billion/year in stock dividends alone.
Some have responded to criticism of the Waltons by arguing that the family is helping to create much needed jobs. Sadly for U.S. workers and families, the facts just don’t support this statement. Here are the facts.
Fact: Walmart is a Job Killer
- Walmart store openings destroy almost three local jobs for every two they create by reducing retail employment by an average of 2.7 percent in every county they enter.[1]
- Walmart cost America an estimated 196,000 jobs – mainly manufacturing jobs – between 2001 and 2006 as a result of the company’s imports from China.[2]
Fact: Walmart Jobs Are Poverty Jobs
- Walmart workers average just $8.81 hour.[3] This translates to annual pay of $15,576, based upon Walmart’s full-time status of 34 hours per week.[4] This is less than 70% of the poverty line for a family of four.[5]
- Walmart pays less than other retail firms. A 2005 study found that Walmart workers earn an estimated 12.4% less than retail workers as a whole, and 14.5% less than workers in large retail in general.[6] A 2007 study which compared Wal-mart to other general merchandising employers found a wage gap of 17.4%.[7]
- Last year, Walmart slashed already meager health benefits, leaving more workers uninsured.[8]
Fact: Taxpayers Are Paying the Price for Walmart
- Despite all the damage they have done to US workers and communities, a 2007 study found that, as of that date, Walmart had received more than $1.2 billion in tax breaks, free land, infrastructure assistance, low-cost financing and outright grants from state and local governments around the country.[9] This number has surely increased as Walmart continues to receive additional subsidies.
- Taxpayers Subsidize Walmart’s Low Wages and Poor Benefits – In many states across the country, Walmart is the employer with the largest number of employees and dependents using taxpayer-funded health insurance programs.[10]
- A few examples:
- In Arizona, according to data released by the state in 2005, the company had more 2,700 employees on the state-funded plan.[11]
- The company also topped the list in their home state of Arkansas, with nearly 4,000 employees forced onto the state’s plan according to data released by the state in 2005.[12]
- In Massachusetts, in 2009, taxpayers paid $8.8 million for Walmart associates to use publicly subsidized healthcare services.[13]
- Although national numbers are not available, if the cost to Massachusetts taxpayers is adjusted nationwide, the cost would be roughly $1 billion.[14]
[1] Neumark, David, Junfu Zhang, and Stephen Ciccarella, January 2007. “The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor
Markets.” Institute for the Study of Labor Discussion Paper #2545, University of Bonn.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=958704
[2] http://www.epi.org/publication/ib235/
[3] IBIS World
[6] Arindrajit Dube and Steve Wertheim. “Walmart and Job Quality: What Do We Know and Should We Care?” October 2005.
[7] Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester, Barry Eidlin, 2007. A Downward Push: The Impact of Wal-Mart Stores on Retail Wages and Benefits.
[8] http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385547n&tag=mncol%3Blst%3B1
[9] http://www.walmartsubsidywatch.org/
[10] http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate-subsidy-watch/hidden-taxpayer-costs
[11] http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate-subsidy-watch/hidden-taxpayer-costs
[12] http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate-subsidy-watch/hidden-taxpayer-costs
[13] http://www.ufcw.org/makingchange/factsheet/index.cfm
[14] Figure is a calculation of the percentage of Massachusetts Walmart associates receiving subsidized care (42%), applied to the 1.4 million associates in the United States, at the cost to Massachusetts per each associate ($1,753.00) receiving aid. Using the data from Massachusetts for 2009 found the percentage of Associates using publicly subsidized care. Percentage is 42%. Then applied this to the entire Walmart workforce to determine number of Associates nationally who would receive publicly subsidized care using the rate in Massachusetts. From the Massachusetts data found the per Associate cost by dividing the total cost of providing subsidized care in MA to Associates by the number of MA Associates receiving subsidized care. This yielded a per Associate cost of $1,753. Multiplied that by 42% of Walmart’s total US workforce (1.4 million). Results in $1 billion.
If the average wage is 70% of poverty level for a family of four, Medicaid isn’t all they’re using, but food stamps too. I was told that in my state Walmart hands out a brochure telling its employees how to apply.
I believe in jobs for justice and I have actively supported everything that we have accomplished and what we will accomplish in the future. I feel compelled to speak out on your unfair and unscrupulous pounding of Walmart. I worked for Walmart for 3 1/2 years here in Oregon, Lebanon to be exact and speaking from experience I am here to tell you that what you are producing about facts and figures concerning Walmart are untrue for the most part. Let;s start off with the fact that Walmart starts most people at minimum wage in whatever State or country they reside and are employed in. People are evaluated every six months from date of hire and if their job production warrants, they are given a raise. In Oregon, I cannot speak for the entire country, Women and minorities are given the same and equal raises as men if their work history warrants. I went from minimum wage of $7.90 per hour to Head of the largest department in their Super Store in less than three years, and I have witnessed Women and minorities accomplish the same goals. I was once the Affirmative Actions Director for the State of California and the Federal Government so believe me I understand People, figures, minorities, the combination of all, what they should be in reference to federal guidelines and believe me, in Oregon at least, The facts are not at all what you have reported. If we expect people to act together in numbers to make Walmart a BETTER place to work then lets at least tell these people the truth. First lets start with the Walton family. My best friend and his brother are descendents and part of the Walton family. Not at all the wealthy part of the family but just the Walton family. What I did not and could not learn about Walmart and the Walton familly from the start of Walmart to present I have learned from my best friend and his brother. Walmart was started by Mr. and Mrs. Walton as their “American Dream” from the basement and garage of their home. Because of their genius marketing tactics Walmart grew beyond and faster than even they could imagine and believe. Then Walmart went to International status. At that point more family members were involved in the politics of the company than just the two founders. The family became divided, with much inward fighting among and between family members. That is when the Company of Walmart went public with the Walton family retaining more than 51 per cent of the shares at all times. In defense of Walmart it is vastly unfair of you to produce only facts medically with the State of Massechussetts. First of all you failed to mention that every member of the State of Massechussetts is covered by “Romney Care” the exact duplicate of “Obama Care” medically, regardless of whether they work for Walmart , K-mart, McDonalds, Burger King, Safeway, Albertsons, The State of Massechussetts, or who they work for. Again in their defense, Walmart does have a health plan that covers all employees even internationally. Where is the health plan for McDonalds? Burger King? All the Mom and Pop grocert stores and convenient stores? Gas stations? The list goes on and on. All of these people that you give statistics for from the other States as well as Massechussetts would be on subsidized health care regardless of who they worked for and as I stated Walmart at least has a health plan available to all personnel and that is something that 90% of the remaining American companies cannot say. As I stated previously Walmart’s entry level pay for the most part is State minimum wage, however, if that amount is less than the Federal minimum wage then the Federal wage prevails and that is what Walmart pays. We all know that any minimum wage job and many above minimum wage are below the Federal Poverty level and we also should know that all of these people are eligible, should and do apply for food stamps, medicare, and all other eligible federal and State programs. Let’s stop spreading untrue propaganda , tell the truth, and try to repair any wrongdoings the right way. “GO TO THE UNION ORGANIZERS AND ORGANIZE WALMART SO UNIONS CAN BARGAIN FOR EQUALITY” If you think Walmart is so wrong. That is the American way. Incidentally, every American retailer that sells the same products found in Walmart buy from those same Chinese companies that you accuse Walmart of buying from. Try and find these products made in America……..You can’t and will not. I could go on here for hours in Walmart’s defense but its fruitless because you have already made up your minds how you are going to handle this Walmart issue. Your way is wrong (in my opinion) and against THE American giant will only cause frustrations between Management and employees and worsen what you think is an already bad situation. My solution! Again UNIONIZE……..It is the only proven American way against an employer. Your way works with banks and wall street corperations better than any other, but believe me it will NOT work against the LARGEST employer of people in the United States and the WORLD. Oh! By the way, PAMIDA was founded by a Walton and is also a very successful retailer. I don’t see you knocking it. Most of its policies and procedures are similar to those of Walmart and I must say the rest of the retail world.
Wal-mart is definitely good as plisneag the customer. Even if it does cater to people looking for cheap organic or local food, it’s important to consider the fact that (aside from being run by Satan himself) Wal-mart can only have such cheap prices because it places the costs on other people. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter written by Peter Singer and Jim Mason, has a whole chapter on Wal-mart and this very question, here’s an excerpt: The positive value of a store with low prices can, however, turn negative if the low prices are achieved by passing costs onto others. In 2004, Wal-Mart’s spokesperson Mona Williams told Forbes’ that a full-time store employee takes home around $18,000 annually. Some think that this estimate is generous, but assuming that it is accurate, it still means that if they employee is the only income earner in a family of four, the family is living below the poverty line. (pg. 77)Most employees that work there are allowed benefits (the figure is $2,000 in public welfare for the average non-salaried Wal-Mart associate in California). So, the point is, if you’re not paying the high costs of food, you’re paying the taxes that support the Wal-Mart employees that Wal-Mart won’t take care of in the interest of saving money.
In response to James Parker’s suggestion that Wal Mart workers unionize, I don’t think that James realizes that union organizing has been tried before. Wal Mart has been the largest advocate of states passing “right to work” laws which makes Union shops illegal. A Wal Mart store in the northern US voted to Unionize and Wal Mart’s response was to immediately close the store. When the store closed, the merchandise was all loaded onto pallets and at least one pallet shipped to every store in the US, with a message attached that this would be what would happen in any location which voted to unionize the store. I believe this story is true, because I’ve had several Wal Mart employees tell me that they saw the pallets arrive.
In Wal Mart’s early days when the company first started to grow, employees in Arkansas were caught talking to union organizers. Sam Walton went home fuming, telling his wife that he should fire every one of them, because they didn’t appreciate “all he did for them” by “providing them with a good job.” Sam didn’t pay more than minimum wage back then either, and Wal Mart has lobbied congress against raising minimum wage every time the bill has come up. Sam’s wife, Helen, told Sam “You are dead wrong, Sam. You are now a wealthy man, and it’s because you have a bunch of great employees who helped make you wealthy. You need to start sharing your profits with them.” Sam listened to his wife and instituted profit sharing, the employees forgot about organizing and Wal Mart took off like a rocket. I don’t believe that Wal Mart has any type of profit sharing any more, other than for store managers.
I used to know the local Wal Mart manager 25 years ago, and his base salary was only about $30,000 per year (about $50,000 in 2012 dollars), but his annual bonus was about $120,000, which he could either keep for himself, or allocate some or all of it to his assistant managers, because they received no bonuses. He hated his job, and was divorced a couple of years later, which is quite common for Wal Mart managers and assistants. All managers and assistant managers were salaried at that time, and they were expected to work 80 hours per week. They were required to come to work in the middle of the night and help unload semi trucks, because that would save Wal Mart the $20 or so that the company would pay a “grunt” to do the labor. As far as providing health insurance to 34 hour per week employees, I’m not sure about that, but I doubt it happens. They might get a “subsidy” or “discount” but I don’t think they get free health care, and from what I have been told, almost all employees are prevented from working more than 32 hours per week to prevent them from eligibility for any benefits.
Employees are allowed to buy Wal Mart Stock directly from the company without paying a broker’s commission, but from my own experience, Wal Mart stock is no longer a good investment. I bought stock in 2001 for $56 per share, and sold it in 2009, after Obama took office for $56.50. Usually when the economy turns bad, Wal Mart stock is considered “defensive” because of the perception that people who would not normally shop at Wal Mart will do so if they lose their jobs or take a pay cut. Lately, the stock has increased to about $63 because the company has recorded higher profits, mostly because they have slowed in new store construction. Even if I had waited until now to sell, Wal Mart would have been a poor investment with about a 15 percent gain in 12 years.
If the culture changed at Wal Mart, they could become a positive force in America and undo much of the harm they have done to the middle class and poor. One example would be if they went against their political ally, the Koch brothers, and embraced natural gas to fuel their thousands of trucks. Chesapeake energy is about to introduce a “kit” which will convert the heavy 18 wheelers to enable them to run on either diesel, or Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) or Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). CNG produces 1/4 the C0 2 of dirty burning diesel fuel, no sulfur, and sells locally for as low as $0.98 per gallon. This “kit” allows the trucks to run on any of the 3 fuels, or a blend of 2. Ideally, the trucks run best on a mix of 70 percent natural gas to 30 percent diesel. Wal Mart alone could make a huge impact by reducing our OPEC imports while still reducing operating costs dramatically. The Koch brothers and Big oil have blocked the energy bill for 3 years now, which would embrace construction of the natural gas superhighway. They accomplished this by “encouraging” sen Mitch McConnell to filibuster the bill which had 85 percent support of Americans, and 59 votes in the senate. McConnell got nearly $500,000 in a “campaign contribution” just before he decided to block the bill which would cut OPEC imports in half in 5 years, eliminate OPEC in 10 years, add about 1 million high paying jobs, and put about $5 Trillion per year into the pockets of American consumers every year which is now going directly to OPEC and big oil’s bank accounts.
$5 Trillion is equivalent of 8 “stimulus bills” passed in 2009, EVERY SINGLE YEAR. This ONE MOVE on the part of Wal Mart could undo much of the damage done to our economy with the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs to China.
I recently watched a documentary about Wal-mart and was very shocked at some of the facts that it displayed. What causes me to believe almost everything that I saw on the documentary is the fact that Wal-mart hasn’t sued the file maker for slander. If it weren’t true then they very easily could. They have the lawyers. They no doubt have the money. I also had the opportunity to speak with a formaer employee of Wal-mart and he presented me with many other shocking facts that I’m sure weren’t only in the 2 stores he was a manager at. I’m sure that it was present at many stores across the nation. You also have to remember that if a person in a family of 4 is only making approximately $15,000 a year they are going to need a second job to be able to provide for their family. However, with the amount of jobs that Wal-mart takes away from that community also reduces the amount of jobs available for that person to work at. It causes an endless pattern of this across the nation and now Wal-mart is beginning to spread into other countries because they are meeting so much resistance from communities all over the US.
Hooray for Wal-Mart. Why are beating up successful people? I think they’ve done well for themselves and this country. Capitalism works.
The reason Wal-Mart could succeed when they started was because the local retailers in a small town gouged and fleeced the local consumers they were in the same community with. Had they not tried to make it where they were ensuring family riches for unborn generations…Wal Mart never would have had a chance. Wal Mart and stores like them are a by product of that small town greed.
You all need to form a Union and force wal-mart to either accept the union or close all its stores.
Unions are the only answer to the employment practices of wal-mart.
UNIONIZE!
@ Jim Buddell – so what your saying is Walmart should pocket the 15 million profit, and let taxpayers pick up the tab for food, shelter and clothing that their employees don’t earn enough to pay for on the job? Really?
Seems to me companies like Walmart should be paying the hands of labor that made their company successful out of THEIR profits so they have a living wage before taxpayers have to subsidize their livelihood. That’s what’s wrong with most of our country now – - – - manipulative, unregulated, greed.
I worked for Wal-mart for a year in Tyler, TX. While it was not the worst job I ever had, it was close. Everything in the article is accurate. Yes, there are a few exceptions, but in general, I’ve seen what this describes.
One item that is left out is the number of part-time employees. Wal-mart encourages part time shifts so they pay fewer benefits. Yes, there are opportunities for people to move up in the company, but I heard and saw first hand the treatment of managers in training. They’re effectively used as extra labor to fill in where there is not enough staff meanwhile having this carrot dangled in front of them that they will eventually have their own store. I do not know what percentage of trainees ever realize that “dream.” Last I knew (early ’90s) a Wal-mart manager made about $70k a year, but would receive a huge bonus ($150-250k) if the store reached certain levels of efficiency (cost/profit). Guess how many employees get a share of that bonus? Zero is the correct answer.
The last time I visited a local Wal-mart a few years ago, I was appalled at how few registers were open. The store was built with 24-30 checkout lanes, but only the 3-4 closest to the doors were manned, and every register had 5+ people in line. Customer service is not in Wal-mart’s vocabulary.
My biggest complaint about Wal-mart is the quality of products they sell. They are duping Americans into believing they are saving money. In actuality they are wasting more. Take an example of a package of ballpoint pens. At an office supply store a package may cost you $10, but they are 100% full of ink and will last you months if not years. The same (or similar) brand and package of pens at Wal-mart may cost less, but look closely at the pen tube. All that I have ever checked are 50-75% full. They’ll last you a few weeks and you’ll be back to buy more in the long run spending more money. Wal-mart forces their vendors to degrade their own products to reduce manufacturing costs or they buy cheaper, off-shore versions and sell them for cheaper. You get what you pay for, and if people cannot realize that they are re-buying the same products over and over again, that’s their own fault, but it allows Wal-mart to continue these poor practices.
What a bunch of garbage. Wal-Mart pays better wages than Target, employees over 1.4 miilion people directly and is a union bonanza if they could ever get in the door. fortunately for their shoppers the unions are not in and prices remain low. Here is a simple theory, if you so dislike Wal-Mart, don’t work their or don’t shop there.
But when you factor in the people that work on the supply chain of the trucks, computers, fuel, and products they sell, the number of people touched by this company that donates tons of money to charity is enormous. You get what you pay for, the non brand name products are of that value, but you know that going in. They have more women working for them than does Target, promote more from within and hire lots of people. The same old arguments of job killing were made when cars came into being, refrigerators came into being ( remember the ice man, lol) but just like automation, it actually creates jobs, because of the spin offs that did not exist before.
How much do greeters and cashiers want to be paid? Why are their wages being compared to what it would take to raise a family of 4? These are lowskill jobs that at even at “fair” wages, can’t afford a family anyways. I understand Walmart could treat their employees better, but this is a case of entitlement. I wouldn’t work at a Taco Bell or McDonalds and expect to be paid enough to raise a family. Get motivated. Do something for yourself. Don’t blame others.
If their only skill Is to stock shelves or tell people where the tomatoes are at, then they have to better themselves.
Retail stores or fast food restaurants are only meant for hs students, college students, or people starting off. If you’re 32 and pumping out your 4th kid while still working at Walmart, whose fault is that?
So, the fact that consumers across the country save hard earned money by shopping there doesn’t enter into the equation??? Again, nothing but bashing the successful in favor of mediocrity. I own a small business which has been negatively impacted by any number of Big Box or discount stores over the years. It makes the smart business people better. The ones who don’t want to change or are stuck in “that’s how we’ve always done it” deserve what they get. If not Walmart, then some other will force efficiency into the market. Evolve or die is been fundamental to all business, blaming Walmart and the Walton family for providing what the public wants is just plain idiotic. And face it, many of the Walmart employees, bless them, would never make any more money anywhere else, they simply don’t bring in the revenue to even be competitive in a smaller concern.
Marc Gardner points out the story of the Walmart store closed because they voted to unionize.Just shows you how frightened the company is of unions. The more stores that vote in the union the more stores the company will close if they continued that policy. Seems to me the ideal solution – they would close themselves down – or evolve to a more enlightened company. But then where are all those laid off employees going to work? Maybe at the next store down the street that buys the same Chinese merchandise but can now sell it at a higher price since they don’t have to compete with WM?
On Monday Nov. 26th on WAMU/NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi show there were so many misstatements about Walmart that my head was spinning. Kojo allowed one of his guest to say that there was no difference in pay or health care coverage between Walmart, Starbucks and Whole Foods. Kojo did not even challenge that hooey. No mention during the show about the Walton family being subsidized by US taxpayers The screener of the show allowed three men through and no women. I was on line waiting and going to bring up these very serious mistakes that were allowed to be repeated as well as wanting to ask the President of the SEIU Mary Kay Henry about the SEIU’s efforts to help unionize nurses aides across the country who receive some of the most pathetic pay and work harder than anyone I have ever seen. Folks should go listen to the State of the Union at the Kojo Nnamdi show and listen to the show. Clearly Kojo and his team did little to no research on the topic so that he could ask tougher questions and have some facts to back him up. Starbucks and Whole Foods should loudly object to what was said on his program covering their pay and their health care coverage to Walmarts
I totally agree with the article. We are all hurting ourselves by shopping at walmart. I work at a grocery store and my insurance for my family cost me 12 dollars a week and it is great insurance. I make almost twice minimum wage. And the company I work for does not make anything that walmart makes. Walmart could do so much more for their employees as well as the community. It isn’t just one persons experience with working at walmart, the article is talking about the company at large. Yes, the company probably pays the managers good money but not the people below them. And there are more workers below the managers then there are managers. I say stop shopping at walmart. And if you work at walmart get yourself a new job.
The real benefit of Wal-Mart is that they help the poor more than any government program ever could. Let me explain, the average person who shops at Wal-Mart saves $2500 per year. Even if you don’t believe in the accuracy of that number you certainly wouldn’t say that people spend more money shopping at WalMart (that would mean that WalMart would no longer have a value proposition and would eventually go out of business.. and that’s not happening). So if you can be intellectually honest, you have to admit that a $2500 annual check your pocket is better than anything the government has done for you lately.
Second, I would like to point out that a tax break/incentive is not the same as a “Taxpayers paying the price for Wal-Mart”. This is really uniformed, and you clearly don’t understand how property taxes work. If Wal-Mart gets an incentive from a local municipality to open a new store in an area the town gets to receive property tax revenue from Wal-Mart for 25+ years. In the several hundred thousand dollar range annually !! I’d say that’s a pretty good tradeoff for many rural towns that have little tax revenue to support their infrastructure costs. By the way, Wal-Mart isn’t the only company that negotiates tax incentives with State and local governments- Google, Micorsoft, Amazon, Apple, Target,- all do it too!
A few economics and finance classes would help you to better understand how these things work. And if you don’t like WalMart don’t shop there. I am all for you exercising your freedom to choose! Many other Americans have already exercised their freedom to choose and they chose to shop at Wal-Mart!
@Mike, i hope you are still getting updates on this,because you need a serious reality check. I applaud anyone who is working what they can to take the burden off others rather than freeloading on society. To say that Someone working as a Wal-mart cashier or door greeter should know they can’t afford a family and insinuate that they should not have one for that reason is ludicrous to say the least. That combined with the fact that you paint them as unmotivated is insulting to me personally. I am a United States Air Force veteran who lives in a small town where Wal-mart is THE major retailer for our entire county. The turn over rate for ALL employment in this county is appalling and i have been the victim of it more than once for no other reason than corporate greed. I have many years of retail management experience, but at this point i would take any job that pays even some of my bills. As to it being an entitlement issue, I agree, but not for the same reasons you do. Having also worked for Wal-mart, I can speak to their practices. I worked for Sam’s club in the next county, over 30 miles from my home, because it was what was available at the time. i went very quickly from my max 34 hours to sometimes only 18-20 per week. I feel if people work hard they ARE entitled to have something to show for it. next time you cash out anywhere, try to imagine how that person eneded up helping you out there rather than looking down on them. they may be a college graduate like my best friend, who has a degree in jet propulsion, who had the market drop out just as they graduated and were forced to pull carts at the same Sam’s club I worked at years before and move back in with his father. Wake up Mike and weigh your words carefully.
And what, McDonald’s pays top dollar? All mega corporations are poverty jobs. My daughter has been working at McDonald’s for nearly 5 years, and only gets paid $9.50 an hour, but is scheduled only two days (at most) per week. Can you live on $158 a week? And that’s a good week!
Everyone who has a job at Walmart should be glad they have a job at all. There are so many that are barely surviving on the streets with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and it was -18 degrees here last night. How many Walmart employees were sitting out there with no home to go to?
Be glad you have a job! And those who buy from Walmart, remember you are paying their wages. By boycotting them, you are relegating many to the ranks of homeless and hungry.
Their other issues, such as China warehouses and non-payment of taxes aside, they do help in communities that have nothing without them.
@ I agree that Walmart can improve some of it practices. I don’t have a problem with the pay they give cashiers and customer service people. The issue arises when at the store I worked for payed the merchandise un-loaders only 7.80 at the time. This was done on 2nd shift which had no pay increase. Our 3rd shift got a 2 dollar an hour SD but they were talking about getting rid of that and some stores in the Omaha NE area reduced it down to just around 1 dollar. Their insurance was better than none but started to cost more when they switched providers. Also Obamacare made some of their option obsolete. It wouldn’t pass the guidelines set with in it. The Walmart that closed for retalliation could have been sued to keep open. That was blatantly clear retaliatory act. Oh on right to work state. I agree with them a person should have the choice if they want to belong or not. They should not be forced into something and be forced to pay the dues. In right to work states you basically pay to vote and people who are union shop members will generally be fought for more by the union. The others pretty much get bare minimum and don’t say it isn’t this way I worked in a union labor job before myself.
A corrupt ,predatory, thug of a company. Twenty two states have lawsuits against them for predatory pricing designed to limit competition. A larger corporate welfare recipient than any “welfare queen”. A community loses three jobs for every two they create. Yea, this company is a wonderful community citizen. They are after one thing and that’s as much of the money in your community as they can siphon off using every legal and not so legal method at their disposal.
If you don’t like Walmart not only shouldn’t you shop there (which I don’t) but when one of these monsters wants to move into your neighborhood petition against it. Maybe have done just that and won.
Walmart is bad for America. The end.
What would it hurt you to, help a few middle class people that are trying to succeed. Your father helped many! I send a message yesterday, and you didn’t release it, why?
The fact of the matter is that WALMART is the modern day version of “sweat shops” is WALMART! They treat their employees like crap and they expect state governments to cover their employees medical expenses. At least daddy sold “American Made” but now it is now pretty much a bunch of China Junk. I like a good deal as much as the next guy or gal but I will not give this money grubbing family one plug nickel!
Since when does Wal-Mart give an evaluation and raise every six months? Try every year. Wal-Mart is not fair in their payment of their employees. I’ve worked as both a door greeter and cashier, as well as a floor sales associate. If Wal-Mart gives you hours, you’re barely making above minimum wage, and if you make more than minimum wage, you’re not getting hours. Wal-Mart does not care about how their employees are treated and does not care to help work around school and class schedules.
Talk to some employees who work for Walmart, both in California and Arkansas. What has been said about the salary and benefits is true. I spoke with these people prior to Walmart being exposed for its violation of labor laws. If you are pro Walmart, then it would appear you are supporting poverty. When Walmart practices unfair labor and gets it merchandise imported, moved from the loading docks to the warehouse, and its employees stock and supply the shelves, who benefits, the low wage employees receiving medical assistance and food stamps from government programs or Walmart who is a billiion dolllar industry. You choose!