8 years at Walmart earns you 11.90 an hour.

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The walkout included just one worker -- Vanessa Ferreira, age 59. Ferreira informed her manager publicly Wednesday morning that she was going on strike. The other employees watched her walk out of the store, then went back to doing their jobs.

Within a half hour, Ferreira would be told by police outside that she was trespassing and ordered to leave. She's worked in the store's cake department for eight years, and she earns $11.90 an hour, she said.

"I love to decorate cakes," Ferreira said Wednesday. "That's my priority -- to do my cakes the best I can."

As much as she loves her job, there's plenty Ferreira doesn't like about her employer. According to Ferreira, Walmart's wages are too low for workers to survive on, and the company keeps too many of its employees on part-time status, leaving them to rely on government assistance to get by.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/walmart-strikes-black-friday_n_2174166.html

[Sherman A1]

1. K&R

I offer this thread with a piece from Bill Moyers on increased pay for workers, for consideration....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021861452

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2. Thanks for that...

Great Avatar by the way.

[Kaleva]

3. Back in 2000, I was paid $10.50 an hour servicing heating and air conditioning systems

And that's with 7 years of experience. I could have made a lot more as I was offered a job by another company starting at $25 an hour but I would have had to move to another state and I didn't want to do that and was doing fine with the money I was making.

Adjusting for inflation, that'd be about $14 an hour today.

[Fumesucker]

4. Wages for the average worker in the US have been flat since the early 70's

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2007/5/30/6525/77055

[Kaleva]

6. Minimum wage today should be about $10.50 an hour..

to match the buying power minimum wage had back in 1968.

[Lasher]

5. That's not the way you strike.

If you're going to go out you have to shut the place down.