Current Events > Walmart Worker Strike -

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This has really been the year (s) of the worker!

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Tag for "free market" crocodile tears

Walmart can afford to pay each worker 30 dollars an hour and still wouldnt lose much selfish billionaires

Nice. I mean, should be more, but nice.

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No better day to strike against a company than Black Friday.

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Solidarity forever.

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Sayoria posted...

No better day to strike against a company than Black Friday.

They must have lost so much money lol

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SierraDawn posted...

They must have lost so much money lol

Given the fact the demands of the employees are typically standard expectations in employment, I hope they did, although that's just one store of a giant company. Not one of their demands seem asinine.

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I love that theyre doing this on Black Friday

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SierraDawn posted...

They must have lost so much money lol

it was a neighborhood market, so nowhere near as much damage as this would have done at a supercenter, but yeah.

walmart can get motherfucked.

https://youtu.be/mok_2xZ8iLU
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There's no way they're gonna allow workers to form unions. My experience working there is that they're firmly anti-union.

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Walmart Neighborhood Market is a grocery store. Afaik grocery stores don't do anything for Black Friday, so I doubt this did much to their revenue. Still good.

BakonBitz posted...

There's no way they're gonna allow workers to form unions. My experience working there is that they're firmly anti-union.

It has never been 'allowed'.
It has been fought for and won.

Walmarts around me are already paying $15 an hr... so I guess it's up to each individual walmart to set its own pay rate?? Also, the same people that were complaining about not getting paid enough are still lazy and still have the same work ethic, despite getting what they wanted. Shocker

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You don't have to work at Walmart to participate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

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kinetika_ posted...

Walmarts around me are already paying $15 an hr... so I guess it's up to each individual walmart to set its own pay rate?? Also, the same people that were complaining about not getting paid enough are still lazy and still have the same work ethic, despite getting what they wanted. Shocker

do you get tired of licking boots or no?

kinetika_ posted...

Walmarts around me are already paying $15 an hr... so I guess it's up to each individual walmart to set its own pay rate?? Also, the same people that were complaining about not getting paid enough are still lazy and still have the same work ethic, despite getting what they wanted. Shocker

BakonBitz posted...

There's no way they're gonna allow workers to form unions. My experience working there is that they're firmly anti-union.

Every corporation is anti-union and will engage in every tactic to destroy them

CADE FOSTER posted...

do you get tired of licking boots or no?

Omnislasher posted...

I love that these 2 posts were like 30 seconds apart.
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Axiom posted...

Every corporation is anti-union and will engage in every tactic to destroy them

def always will

CADE FOSTER posted...

do you get tired of licking boots or no?

No, I get tired of seeing lazy people cry about payrates then still work like a trash $8 an hr employee. I pay my employees $18 - $20 an hr, which is realistic. At most, many of the people striking aren't worth $15 an hr. I didn't like walmart paying me $9 an hr 10 years ago, so I left to go to a job that paid me $15 an hr, then outgrew that and now make 6 figures. I don't have a college degreee either... purely hardwork and drive, and networking.

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kinetika_ posted...

No, I get tired of seeing lazy people cry about payrates then still work like a trash $8 an hr employee. I pay my employees $18 - $20 an hr, which is realistic. At most, many of the people striking aren't worth $15 an hr. I didn't like walmart paying me $9 an hr 10 years ago, so I left to go to a job that paid me $15 an hr, then outgrew that and now make 6 figures. I don't have a college degreee either... purely hardwork and drive, and networking.

So because you beat the odds, other people aren't worth a living wage?

kinetika_ posted...

No, I get tired of seeing lazy people cry about payrates then still work like a trash $8 an hr employee. I pay my employees $18 - $20 an hr, which is realistic. At most, many of the people striking aren't worth $15 an hr. I didn't like walmart paying me $9 an hr 10 years ago, so I left to go to a job that paid me $15 an hr, then outgrew that and now make 6 figures. I don't have a college degreee either... purely hardwork and drive, and networking.

Omnislasher posted...

Thats every member or the right literally

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such a sorry sight

kinetika_ posted...

No, I get tired of seeing lazy people cry about payrates then still work like a trash $8 an hr employee. I pay my employees $18 - $20 an hr, which is realistic. At most, many of the people striking aren't worth $15 an hr. I didn't like walmart paying me $9 an hr 10 years ago, so I left to go to a job that paid me $15 an hr, then outgrew that and now make 6 figures. I don't have a college degreee either... purely hardwork and drive, and networking.

Lmao holy shit the bootstraps argument. That boot must taste amazing

I got mine fuck you the rights mentality always

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kinetika_ posted...

No, I get tired of seeing lazy people cry about payrates then still work like a trash $8 an hr employee. I pay my employees $18 - $20 an hr, which is realistic. At most, many of the people striking aren't worth $15 an hr. I didn't like walmart paying me $9 an hr 10 years ago, so I left to go to a job that paid me $15 an hr, then outgrew that and now make 6 figures. I don't have a college degreee either... purely hardwork and drive, and networking.

you don't understand, the idea is to pay employees more than what their labor is actually worth and to make it harder to fire people so that the pothead that shows up half the time and fucking sucks at what he does is treated the same as some kid with drive and a willingness to work

Kaiganeer posted...

the idea is to pay employees more than what their labor is actually worth

A fast food worker that sells thousands of dollars of product gets paid far below the worth of their labor.


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Kaiganeer posted...

you don't understand, the idea is to pay employees more than what their labor is actually worth and to make it harder to fire people so that the pothead that shows up half the time and fucking sucks at what he does is treated the same as some kid with drive and a willingness to work

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qXdc9aWijJY/maxresdefault.jpg

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TheOtherMike posted...

So because you beat the odds, other people aren't worth a living wage?

There's no odds to it. I had years of failures, but I never gave up. Most people give up because they're not willing to fight through adversity.

My GF is a manager at walmart, who started at a time in the company when 7.25 an hr was the minimum. She saw Walmart go from that to 10 an hr and now to 15 an hr, and still, the same people who complained and stuck through the increases remain with the same poor work ethic and attitude. This is my criticism towards those complaining about payrates: their work habits and culture didn't change, despite some nearly receiving almost double their previous rate over the past few years.

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The right lack compassion i blame the parents sad really

Kaiganeer posted...

you don't understand, the idea is to pay employees more than what their labor is actually worth and to make it harder to fire people so that the pothead that shows up half the time and fucking sucks at what he does is treated the same as some kid with drive and a willingness to work

lol the value of an employees labor is 100x higher than what they are paid

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AvlButtslam posted...

I love that theyre doing this on Black Friday

It's a neighborhood market, they only really sell food. They should have done it Wednesday when everyone was freaking out buying shit they knew they needed all month. And then getting angry it was sold out.

Doesn't matter, Walmart will call the store an under performer and close it to some the problem.

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kinetika_ posted...

There's no odds to it. I had years of failures, but I never gave up. Most people give up because they're not willing to fight through adversity.

My GF is a manager at walmart, who started at a time in the company when 7.25 an hr was the minimum. She saw Walmart go from that to 10 an hr and now to 15 an hr, and still, the same people who complained and stuck through the increases remain with the same poor work ethic and attitude. This is my criticism towards those complaining about payrates: their work habits and culture didn't change, despite some nearly receiving almost double their previous rate over the past few years.

a fucking disgrace that people have to strike for benefits that should be standard everywhere but this country hates the poor

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Axiom posted...

Lmao holy shit the bootstraps argument. That boot must taste amazing

Unlike most, I don't worry about the ultra rich, nor do I care how much less I have than them. I simply work within the system (capitalism) and "play the game" that its rules has in place. And no, I don't exploit anyone for my profits, nor did I ever exploit anyone to get my networth. In fact, my employees love me and I do a lot for them, and I take care of them because I know how vital they are to my operations.

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shockthemonkey posted...

I had the safety net to fail a fuckton and now I dont respect people who dont have that sure is a bootlicking take

I never had a safety net... i lived as poor and cheaply as possible, and saved my money to where I could do route sales and built up my credit score. It took me nearly a decade to do so. I lost money and time within that decade going to a junior college, until I met people who taught me and showed me how to find a different path. If anything, meeting those people was the "luck" factor in my life.

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kinetika_ posted...

There's no odds to it.

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kinetika_ posted...

I had years of failures, but I never gave up. Most people give up because they're not willing to fight through adversity.

So...you beat the odds.