11 year old girl tells the truth about Wal-Mart

[touche]

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1. The sad thing is...

Wal Mart has already converted us to a low wage economy. This happened when they forced all retail goods to be produced in slave labor countries. Considering that the owners are all billionaires, I don't think you'll ever get them to care about anyone. They have too much money to insulate themselves, no matter what happens to their stores full of cheap junk.

[Laelth]

2. Wal-Mart needs the disinfectant of sunlight, and we need a much higher min. wage.

I saw a statistic a couple of days ago that really shocked me.

With the average turnover rate at typical retail stores running 200-300 percent in a single year, it quickly becomes abundantly clear why organizers like Andrews have such a difficult task trying to rally marginalized workers who hate their jobs so much, they’re constantly looking for a way out.

http://laborpress.org/sectors/union-retail/3060-the-hardest-organizing-job-in-labor

200-300% turnover in a year? That means the average retail job lasts from four to six months. That's not a job. It's an eternal conveyor belt of disposable humans--train/torture/terminate. That has got to be crushing on the human spirit. Something needs to change ... fast.



-Laelth

[touche]

4. That says a lot.

And something does need to change.

[joanbarnes]

3. This kid sounds like I did when I was a kid!