Walmart Warehouse Workers Strike

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/09/13-1

Yesterday about three dozen employees of a Southern California warehouse that stores goods for Walmart walked out on strike. According to their organization, Warehouse Workers United:

Workers face inadequate access to clean water, work under scorching heat that reaches well over 100 degrees, and have little access to basic healthcare, regular breaks, and properly functioning equipment. Their wages are low –$8 per hour and $250 a week, or $12,000 per year. Workplace injury is common.

But when workers tried to offer solutions to fix these abuses, they have been met with illegal threats and intimidation by management.

[rhaig 0]

so are these walmart employees? if not, why is "walmart" even in there other than to attract the people who hate walmart?

I don't see the issue here. They work in shitty conditions without regular breaks. The state workforce comission or whatever it is in CA should be involved here.

The wages shouldn't be an issue. The pay sucks. Find a different job.

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Rob

[kelpdiver 2]

even if they were Walmart affiliated - 3 dozen out of more than a million employees isn't exactly news.

[billvon 2,772]

>Workers face inadequate access to clean water, work under scorching heat that
>reaches well over 100 degrees, and have little access to basic healthcare, regular
>breaks, and properly functioning equipment. Their wages are low –$8 per hour and
>$250 a week, or $12,000 per year. Workplace injury is common.

They should spend a week packing at Perris! They'd be telling stories about "the good old days" at Wal-Mart.

But in any case, I support these people's right to quit 100%. If enough people do quit Wal-Mart will either have to change their policies or go out of business.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

It is now the case that the Walton family wealth is as large as the bottom 48.8 million families in the wealth distribution (constituting 41.5 percent of all American families) combined.

[billvon 2,772]

>It is now the case that the Walton family wealth is as large as the bottom 48.8 million
> families in the wealth distribution (constituting 41.5 percent of all American families)
>combined.

Cool! Cool to see that people can get that rich in this country.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

And they are free to join a union.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

The three years of wealth data from 2007 to 2010 provides an extreme example of how the economic fortunes of Walmart’s owners have diverged from those of typical American households. Concretely, between 2007 and 2010, while median family wealth fell by 38.8 percent, the wealth of the Walton family members rose from $73.3 billion to $89.5 billion.

[billvon 2,772]

>And they are free to join a union.

They sure are. And Wal-Mart is free to fire them and get better employees.

[rhaig 0]

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It is now the case that the Walton family wealth is as large as the bottom 48.8 million families in the wealth distribution (constituting 41.5 percent of all American families) combined.

the way this is worded, Wal Mart is just a customer of the warehouse company. Wal Mart will have no liability in any claim against the warehouse owners, nor should they.

Why do you keep discussing Wal Mart?

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Rob

[normiss 733]

Good for them!

Nice to see the family carrying it on too - I hate to see kids sell off a family business to an investment group.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

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>And they are free to join a union.

They sure are. And Wal-Mart is free to fire them and get better employees.

Until the union gets the upper hand.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

In many states across the country, Walmart is the employer with the largest number of employees and dependents using taxpayer-funded health insurance programs.

[quade 4]

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>And they are free to join a union.

They sure are. And Wal-Mart is free to fire them and get better employees.

Uh . . . No. Actually, retaliation the one thing Walmart is expressly forbidden to do and especially for workers just trying to gain access to legal working conditions.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[billvon 2,772]

>Until the union gets the upper hand.

Until they no longer have jobs, at least.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

Sam and James "Bud" Walton now possess total wealth equivalent to 49 million American families, 42 percent of the total. As it turns out, that shocking number will grow much larger if Mitt Romney wins in November. After all, would-be President Romney not only wants to deliver another massive tax cut windfall for the wealthy, but wants to eliminate the estate tax altogether, a move that on paper would divert over $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury into the vaults of the Walton family.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

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>Until the union gets the upper hand.

Until they no longer have jobs, at least.

Until the union gets the upper hand.

[rhaig 0]

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In many states across the country, Walmart is the employer with the largest number of employees and dependents using taxpayer-funded health insurance programs.

this post has absolutely nothing to do with the warehouse conditions nor the workers referred to in the original post. Clearly you don't care about them.


The whole of the original post was a setup to complain about walmart.

just start a thread to complain about walmart!!

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Rob

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

Led by Sam Walton's only daughter, Alice, the family spent $3.2 million on lobbying, conservative causes and candidates for last year's federal elections. That's more than double what it spent in the previous two elections combined, public documents show. The Waltons have joined a coterie of wealthy families trying to save fortunes through permanent repeal of the estate tax, government watchdogs say. The election of President Bush and more conservatives to Congress gave momentum to the long-fought effort. The Waltons add more.

[rhaig 0]

quoting a USA today article from more than 7 years ago...

I think we have a google bot on our hands.

you ceased to be funny about your third breath.

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Rob

[NewGuy2005 51]

This is bullshit. These are not Wal-Mart employees and this is not a Wal-Mart "warehouse"

[kelpdiver 2]

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The three years of wealth data from 2007 to 2010 provides an extreme example of how the economic fortunes of Walmart’s owners have diverged from those of typical American households. Concretely, between 2007 and 2010, while median family wealth fell by 38.8 percent, the wealth of the Walton family members rose from $73.3 billion to $89.5 billion.

this is the DD of old - rambling from irrelevant point to irrelevant point - like how you'd expect the VC to 'debate' in Vietnam. But now you just post factoids without citation rather than rip off alternet, which is a forum for made up facts and questionable logic.

My wealth went up far more than 22% between 2007 and 2010. It's not really a high bar to meet unless 90% of your household wealth is your home.

[quade 4]

Which, of course, is the case for the vast majority of people.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[quade 4]

Bill, any packer at Perris who is only pulling down $8 per hour, is either packing on a rain day or dead. Hard to say what the max is a packer can pull in per hour, but you know as well as I do it's higher than $8 per hour.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

A Wisconsin judge has struck down the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers, ruling the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void.