Bernie: The Wealthiest Family In The Country Refuse To Pay A Living Wage

[Donkees]

Feb 26, 2021

Fancy cars. Expensive art. Huge houses. The Waltons – the wealthiest family in the country – spend millions on themselves, but refuse to pay their workers a living wage.

[mikeysnot]

1. Why I don't shop there.

Probably the year 2000...

[kcr]

3. Me neither

I'm lucky enough to live where there are plenty of options, so I never go there. I found out I haven't been missing anything when I took a relative to one of their pharmacies. The place was a dump. Nothing like the Walmarts I remember from the 90s, which were more like Targets are now.

[mikeysnot]

4. We joined Costco and glad we did

Last year during lockdown.

[Auggie]

11. Same here

[Celerity]

2. They should match Costco, who just went to 16 usd per hour

[FakeNoose]

5. But that's the model for American business now

Look at Jeff Bezos and Amazon ... how is he any better than the Walton family? Maybe we like Bezos' politics a little better, but his employees are mostly "working poor" just like the Walmart employees.

In 2 generations the American middle class has gone from well-off to near-slavery.
Thank you Ronald Reagan!

[genxlib]

6. This is how he is better

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/02/tech/amazon-minimum-wage/index.html

"Amazon announces $15 minimum wage for all US employees"

If you are going to make demands you can't still be angry when they comply.

[Major Nikon]

12. I suspect that effort is designed more to thwart unionism

Amazon's worst nightmare is a union. A strike at the right location could severely impact their business and they know it. They can afford to pay more than $15 per hour.

[Hotler]

16. They treat their employees like crap. They need to be boycotted until

they get a union.

[dameatball]

9. "Near slavery" is not exactly true, but point well taken. Having grown up in a time when one working

parent could afford to raise a family, I agree that the middle class is a fading concept.

[The Jungle 1]

7. Honesty

Recent news
Walmart announced it will give 425,000 employees a raise, a move that will increase its average pay to above $15 an hour.

I am no fan of walfart but we must be honest. The pressure is working. Now we must get the rest of the greedy American corporations to pay a fair wage and remove their workers from public assistance.

How about a tax if you have workers on public assistance you pay for it.

[malaise]

8. Watched him and loved it

Rec

[KS Toronado]

10. Bernie will always fight for the poor & middle class.

And he's just getting started in his new position.

[SoonerPride]

13. The fact we have to subsidize their employees is insane

I don’t begrudge helping the workers with food stamps or healthcare but I do think we shouldn’t have to help these people afford to live. The Waltons should pay a living wage so public assistance is not needed

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Their grandchildren's grandchildren will never have to work.

They will never have to want for anything, but unlike Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, they aren't giving it away, not even to the employees who work hard to earn the money for them.

[Hotler]

15. Bernie, start using the words selfish and selfishness when talking

the repugs and 1%er's.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. There's not much I'd change about that quote.

Except to change "millions" to "billions."

[bif]

18. I have never and will never shop there.