Hillary Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions

[SteveLaura 0]

the chickens are coming home to roost.

ducks. not chicken.

*Holds head in hands* What have I started..?

You should be ashamed of yourself.

So - you're the kind of man sympathetic to unions - any thoughts, unrelated to ducks?

I am ashamed. And all my thoughts are duck-related right now.

Short answer, as I have to leave: Hillary will do & say anything that gets her what she wants. Wal-Mart was good to her for those six years (and beyond? Have they contributed to her campaign, anyone know?) so she kept schtum. Now she no longer 'shares their values' - hmm... This is her MO. Nevada casino caucaus: good or bad, Hil? Depends who the union supports, doesn't it?

Ah. Makes me want to go off and do some work.

[Heracles 417]

Wal-Mart treats its employees abominably, to not support them getting better wages and benefits and, instead, supporting a big corp like Wal-Mart (who aren't short of a few dollars) is awful. Mind you I guess she was being paid by them, amazing how much incentive cash for yourself is over poor starving employees who struggle to get by.

Shocking, just shocking.

I just don't understand how no one has been able to beat those guys. As a competitor I would just do the opposite to them and boast about it. Aka paying staff a decent wage. Not using slave labor in foreign countries. Trying to source products from the US prior to looking abroad. Pay for their staff's health insurance. Making stores clean and safe to shop in. etc..

[Alex+R 0]

Wal-Mart treats its employees abominably, to not support them getting better wages and benefits and, instead, supporting a big corp like Wal-Mart (who aren't short of a few dollars) is awful. Mind you I guess she was being paid by them, amazing how much incentive cash for yourself is over poor starving employees who struggle to get by.

Shocking, just shocking.

I just don't understand how no one has been able to beat those guys. As a competitor I would just do the opposite to them and boast about it. Aka paying staff a decent wage. Not using slave labor in foreign countries. Trying to source products from the US prior to looking abroad. Pay for their staff's health insurance. Making stores clean and safe to shop in. etc..

When Wal-Mart went to Germany, they weren't allowed to use their usual scheme (make prices so low initially that they can't even profit, then raise them later) and they folded. It would be hard to run a business with prices so low while doing even one or two things ethically.

[Mags 112]

Wal-Mart treats its employees abominably, to not support them getting better wages and benefits and, instead, supporting a big corp like Wal-Mart (who aren't short of a few dollars) is awful. Mind you I guess she was being paid by them, amazing how much incentive cash for yourself is over poor starving employees who struggle to get by.

Shocking, just shocking.

I just don't understand how no one has been able to beat those guys. As a competitor I would just do the opposite to them and boast about it. Aka paying staff a decent wage. Not using slave labor in foreign countries. Trying to source products from the US prior to looking abroad. Pay for their staff's health insurance. Making stores clean and safe to shop in. etc..

When Wal-Mart went to Germany, they weren't allowed to use their usual scheme (make prices so low initially that they can't even profit, then raise them later) and they folded. It would be hard to run a business with prices so low while doing even one or two things ethically.

They own Asda in the UK (same kind of sales pitch - low prices etc etc and George clothing). However, they have to pay minimum wage in the UK which is 5.75 (I think) which, although poor, is way better than the $8 p/h they give workers over here (if they're lucky) and healthcare is covered by the NHS so they don't have to pay anything towards insurance.

Asda is not the biggest retailer in the UK (that "honour" goes to Tesco) but they are pretty successful regardless.

[Ban Hammer 13,360]

Wal-Mart treats its employees abominably, to not support them getting better wages and benefits and, instead, supporting a big corp like Wal-Mart (who aren't short of a few dollars) is awful. Mind you I guess she was being paid by them, amazing how much incentive cash for yourself is over poor starving employees who struggle to get by.

Shocking, just shocking.

I just don't understand how no one has been able to beat those guys. As a competitor I would just do the opposite to them and boast about it. Aka paying staff a decent wage. Not using slave labor in foreign countries. Trying to source products from the US prior to looking abroad. Pay for their staff's health insurance. Making stores clean and safe to shop in. etc..

When Wal-Mart went to Germany, they weren't allowed to use their usual scheme (make prices so low initially that they can't even profit, then raise them later) and they folded. It would be hard to run a business with prices so low while doing even one or two things ethically.

they also had junk in the store i went to. i was not impressed.

[Alex+R 0]

Wal-Mart treats its employees abominably, to not support them getting better wages and benefits and, instead, supporting a big corp like Wal-Mart (who aren't short of a few dollars) is awful. Mind you I guess she was being paid by them, amazing how much incentive cash for yourself is over poor starving employees who struggle to get by.

Shocking, just shocking.

I just don't understand how no one has been able to beat those guys. As a competitor I would just do the opposite to them and boast about it. Aka paying staff a decent wage. Not using slave labor in foreign countries. Trying to source products from the US prior to looking abroad. Pay for their staff's health insurance. Making stores clean and safe to shop in. etc..

When Wal-Mart went to Germany, they weren't allowed to use their usual scheme (make prices so low initially that they can't even profit, then raise them later) and they folded. It would be hard to run a business with prices so low while doing even one or two things ethically.

They own Asda in the UK (same kind of sales pitch - low prices etc etc and George clothing). However, they have to pay minimum wage in the UK which is 5.75 (I think) which, although poor, is way better than the $8 p/h they give workers over here (if they're lucky) and healthcare is covered by the NHS so they don't have to pay anything towards insurance.

Asda is not the biggest retailer in the UK (that "honour" goes to Tesco) but they are pretty successful regardless.

Hm, I guess that's what can happen when a government has provisions in place to make sure people can go to the doctor and earn a sort of living wage. I don't know if we'll ever try out those newfangled ideas stateside.

Wal-Mart will always go as low as they can go. If a similar company came up in the U.S., but paid $12/hour and gave full benefits to employees, they would never be able to compete with Wally World.

[kaydee457 13]

Wal-Mart treats its employees abominably, to not support them getting better wages and benefits and, instead, supporting a big corp like Wal-Mart (who aren't short of a few dollars) is awful. Mind you I guess she was being paid by them, amazing how much incentive cash for yourself is over poor starving employees who struggle to get by.

Shocking, just shocking.

I just don't understand how no one has been able to beat those guys. As a competitor I would just do the opposite to them and boast about it. Aka paying staff a decent wage. Not using slave labor in foreign countries. Trying to source products from the US prior to looking abroad. Pay for their staff's health insurance. Making stores clean and safe to shop in. etc..

When Wal-Mart went to Germany, they weren't allowed to use their usual scheme (make prices so low initially that they can't even profit, then raise them later) and they folded. It would be hard to run a business with prices so low while doing even one or two things ethically.

They own Asda in the UK (same kind of sales pitch - low prices etc etc and George clothing). However, they have to pay minimum wage in the UK which is 5.75 (I think) which, although poor, is way better than the $8 p/h they give workers over here (if they're lucky) and healthcare is covered by the NHS so they don't have to pay anything towards insurance.

Asda is not the biggest retailer in the UK (that "honour" goes to Tesco) but they are pretty successful regardless.

Hm, I guess that's what can happen when a government has provisions in place to make sure people can go to the doctor and earn a sort of living wage. I don't know if we'll ever try out those newfangled ideas stateside.

Wal-Mart will always go as low as they can go. If a similar company came up in the U.S., but paid $12/hour and gave full benefits to employees, they would never be able to compete with Wally World.

Personally, I don't see the need for unions. They are anti-competitive and make use of artificial labor and product output quota's that supposedly benefits the workers somehow.

I think that unions have outlived their usefulness......