It's easy to come off with knee jerk attitudes to Walmart employees striking, but there are many sides to the issue.
This company has successfully managed to keep unions out, but has had to resort to laying off entire departments when it gets wind of union organizers getting closer to getting the support it needs.
So you would think that Walmart's owners would reward employee loyalty considering the fact that it made something like $45 billion dollars last year.
Some would say that $8.00 an hour leading to $12.00 an hour after several years is not a ticket to prosperity, add to that what has been called expensive healthcare plans and Walmart is not the model of how to treat employees well. All employees don't have to be started at more, but good employees need a path to decent wages, and this is a company that cannot make an argument that it does not have the revenue to do so.
And I can hear it now, at least they have a job. Quite frankly this illustrates how someone trying to raise kids would be better off on welfare than working 40 hours a week at $8.00 an hour.
So sitting there with a successful company that hires tens of thousands of people, wouldn't it make sense for them to start thinking what it could do to make their employees lives better? Rather than fighting a constant battle to keep unions out (many would make the argument that they could sure use union help) wouldn't it make more sense to willingly arrive at a place in the middle of where they are now and what they could expect to have to pay out under union guidelines?
A gradual series of raises and picking up some of the health care would keep employees happy enough that they would not be open to union encroachment. The fact is that without the burden of union dues coming out of wages that point where employees are making what they would be making if they had a union is several dollars an hour less than where they'll be if a union gets a foot in the door. This is stupidly greedy management at it's worst.
I will not cry for Walmart when it happens that they get worked over by unions, poor things, making over $40 billion a year and can't kick back to their employees.
As a model Walmart sucks, it's a model of greed. It's an example of jobs makers with zero appreciation for their employees. CEO's and managers seem to expect bonuses, where's the bonuses for the employees of companies that do this well? Where do they get rewarded for doing the jobs that make this profit possible.
This company has successfully managed to keep unions out, but has had to resort to laying off entire departments when it gets wind of union organizers getting closer to getting the support it needs.
So you would think that Walmart's owners would reward employee loyalty considering the fact that it made something like $45 billion dollars last year.
Some would say that $8.00 an hour leading to $12.00 an hour after several years is not a ticket to prosperity, add to that what has been called expensive healthcare plans and Walmart is not the model of how to treat employees well. All employees don't have to be started at more, but good employees need a path to decent wages, and this is a company that cannot make an argument that it does not have the revenue to do so.
And I can hear it now, at least they have a job. Quite frankly this illustrates how someone trying to raise kids would be better off on welfare than working 40 hours a week at $8.00 an hour.
So sitting there with a successful company that hires tens of thousands of people, wouldn't it make sense for them to start thinking what it could do to make their employees lives better? Rather than fighting a constant battle to keep unions out (many would make the argument that they could sure use union help) wouldn't it make more sense to willingly arrive at a place in the middle of where they are now and what they could expect to have to pay out under union guidelines?
A gradual series of raises and picking up some of the health care would keep employees happy enough that they would not be open to union encroachment. The fact is that without the burden of union dues coming out of wages that point where employees are making what they would be making if they had a union is several dollars an hour less than where they'll be if a union gets a foot in the door. This is stupidly greedy management at it's worst.
I will not cry for Walmart when it happens that they get worked over by unions, poor things, making over $40 billion a year and can't kick back to their employees.
As a model Walmart sucks, it's a model of greed. It's an example of jobs makers with zero appreciation for their employees. CEO's and managers seem to expect bonuses, where's the bonuses for the employees of companies that do this well? Where do they get rewarded for doing the jobs that make this profit possible.
