Wal-Mart Employees Planning Strike

Right before Black Friday

This should be fun to watch.

Wal-Mart Workers' Black Friday Strike - Yahoo! Finance

 

...seeing as I don't participate in such foolishness since i got my first playstation.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

will they get thug support ?
Thug = union

 

oh noes!!!!!!

 

I bet it won't work. Whether they agree or disagree with unionizing, a lot of Wal-Mart workers live from one check to the next. I bet every part time housewife and pothead that lives with his parents on the Wal-Mart payroll will stay home though. Things might actually go smoother.

 

It doesn't fit the narrative of the Right, but it has always taken pain and sacrifice to unionize.

 

Your answer is in the article.

 

Unions suck.

Labor Unions: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty

 

Sorry, I'm too familiar with the history of unions to buy that. Peddle that one-sided garbage though, I am sure many are eager to believe it here.

 

Proud non union worker!

 

Please share some of the pain and sacrifice inflicted on gov't employees to unionize.

 

I have no doubt that, somehow, the victims in this situation, as portrayed by the right, will be the poor owners and executives held hostage by nefarious hordes of ungrateful and lazy $9/hour workers.

 

I suspect those folks will get along just fine. It is the person who formerly had a $9/hour job who finds themselves unemployed who might not fair so well.

 

I didn't say government employees. Confirmation bias. Dozens of industries with abuse and massacres on the road to unionization, and you pick the one without.

 

I don't see why they aren't allowed to bargain that their labor is actually more valuable than 9 dollars an hour with no benefits. If it isn't, they should be easily replaced by those who value their labor much less. Supply and demand works for labor, too.

 

In that article one of the full-time managers complains that she has to be on food stamps. Any idea what a manager makes there?

 

I think you are agreeing with him.

 

What is wrong with picking that one. Just because it doesn't fit with your leftist BS. You said, "it has always taken pain and sacrifice to unionize."


What was their pain and sacrifice?

 

They were and are part of a larger movement. At the time of their formation, they were underpaid and under-benefited relative to their private sector colleagues. Even now, if you control for age and education they aren't actually paid any more than the private sector (although the recession may have changed that).

 

Even still, you are going to have to explain to me the virtues of child labor (occurring into the 20th century by the way), 16 hour work days, the murdering of women and children in an effort to coerce labor, and companies that didn't pay in currency so they could force workers to only be able to spend their money within the company store. That of course also tied them to the company and it's operations indefinitely, and wasn't much different than outright slavery. All of this, in the twentieth century. Check out the Ladlow massacre sometime.