Walmart's request of associates to help provide Thanksgiving dinner for co-workers proof of low wage

[OhioChick]

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November 18, 2013 at 7:32 AM


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The storage containers are attractively displayed at the Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton. The bins are lined up in alternating colors of purple and orange. Some sit on tables covered with golden yellow tablecloths. Others peer out from under the tables.

This isn't a merchandise display. It's a food drive - not for the community, but for needy workers.

"Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner," read signs affixed to the tablecloths.

The food drive tables are tucked away in an employees-only area. They are another element in the backdrop of the public debate about salaries for cashiers, stock clerks and other low-wage positions at Walmart, as workers in Cincinnati and Dayton are scheduled to go on strike Monday.

Is the food drive proof the retailer pays so little that many employees can't afford Thanksgiving dinner?

More: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/11/is_walmarts_request_of_associa.html#incart_river_default#incart_m-rpt-2


Walmart Heirs Hold More Wealth Than 42% of Americans Combined

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/walmart-heirs-waltons-wealth-income-inequality

[Jacoby365]

1. This is unbelievable.

The Walmart billionaires refuse to pay living wages, and then ask their employees to help take care of each other with their meager earnings. This greedy behavior reminds me of how Walmart would hire elderly people to greet customers at the door and then take out life insurance policies on those elderly employees with Walmart as the beneficiary. I don't know if they still practice that, but both are examples of immoral greed.

[Initech]

2. We are in dire need for a revolution.

Whether it's through peaceful means or otherwise. It's truly a sad state of affairs when Wal-Mart and other stores ask employees to work on Thanksgiving - a national holiday - for the crappy pay and no overtime benefits. And now to add insult to injury, they're asking for the company to provide dinner. Ugh this economy.

[lpbk2713]

3. Meanwhile, the Waltons are the wealthiest family in the world.

And they expect local store employees to make up for the shortfall in
what they pay WalMart employees at the lower end of the scale.

[newfie11]

4. Now that balls!

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What a bunch of cheap SOBs.
Hope the Walton's choke on their turkey!

[magical thyme]

5. it's similar to the hospital lab where I work...

they periodically have employees run out of sick time on medical leave and have the gall to ask other employees to donate their "paid time off" days. IOW, give away their vacation and sick days to the sick employees.

To make matters worse, a sr. lab tech told me when she gave away some of her days off to a lab assistant going through surgery/chemo, they paid out the lab assistant's lower wage and pocketed the difference between the 2 salaries!!!

It's just un-effing-believable...

[Jacoby365]

6. Once upon a time

I had a fairly decent paying factory job that was unionized. Yes, the company was for-profit, but the owner of the factory realized that he owed his success to his employees. Each year at Thanksgiving, he gave gift certificates from a local grocery store chain to each of his 100 employees. The gift certificates were a sufficient amount for each employee to provide a Thanksgiving meal for their family. WTF is wrong with the Walton family, who makes far more money than my previous employer?

[csziggy]

11. That was my thought - how cheap would it be for the Waltons to GIVE

Every employee one or two meals a season? It would cost them less than actually paying all their employees a living wage and be a great PR point.

Instead they are so greedy, they won't do either.

[SomethingFishy]

7. That sign should read:

Yachts are expensive. So are private jets, fleets of cars and multiple mansions. In order to keep our standard of living we must ask you peons to scrape together what you can to help our employees have a nice dinner on Thanksgiving.

But don't worry too much, if they can't afford to eat we will be open on Thanksgiving day so they can come in and work.

[progressoid]

8. +1

[dodger501]

9. There are commercials running here w/WalMart employees telling how wonderful they have it

Bonuses, even for part timers. Started in stock, now a manager. Matching gifts, benefits, the whole 9 yards:

[Retrograde]

10. Are those the ones that talk about 400 promotions a day?

Talk about turnover!