londonfog
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actually I was busy getting my free stuffI was surprised he didn't send me a message immediatelyThe only person who mentioned it was Uncle Buck.
Layoffs coming...
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Grandpapy
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Truly a business that knows what it takes to be responsible for a healthy and profitable community.
You don't recall where I said I work, do you?
Grandpapy
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No sorry I missed that.
Ran out of Obamaphone minutes already? roflactually I was busy getting my free stuff
I guess I didn't say it outright:
Wal-Mart did not kill Hostess. They died from a mixture of no one eating their products and high labor cost. Companies go bankrupt dealing with Wal-Mart because they put all their eggs in one basket. There are many companies that supply Wal-Mart and never go bankrupt. I am going to tell you right now that I know more about Wal-Mart buying practices than everyone on this forum combined because I have actually worked with one of the regional buyers and dealt with snack cakes in particular.
I actually work for Wal-Mart and the benefits I get, besides bonus, are exactly the same from the people greeter to the district managers (the people in charge of 20 stores or so). All those things I listed are standard Wal-Mart benefits. I stop at the district level because I don't know what the regional people get, but I suspect it is the same.
ChesusRice
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So why wont you let the unions talk to your employees since your company is so benevolent?
londonfog
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Damn... Obama giving out iphones too ????
londonfog
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Dude you signed on to this
I agreed by saying this
then you jumped in saying
you agreed to take the bet of my sig for your sig..well I own your sig my friend and you do have things in it that I did not request..come on make this easier ..a bet is a bet..Sync0 had zero problems honoring the bet. Wow I just realized that you agreed to the Ron Paul bet and the Obama bet..thats 180 days of sig ownage
ChesusRice
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Dude you signed on to this
I agreed by saying thisthen you jumped in saying you agreed to take the bet of my sig for your sig..well I own your sig my friend and you do have things in it that I did not request..come on make this easier ..a bet is a bet..Sync0 had zero problems honoring the bet. Wow I just realized that you agreed to the Ron Paul bet and the Obama bet..thats 180 days of sig ownage
He is Ron Paul supporter?
How do I get back the Reputation I gave him?
londonfog
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Well he does still get credit at his attempt to honor our bet..Just trying to get him to finish without all the hassle ...lol
Grandpapy
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No shit? Well here is one way where they are irresponsible, and perhaps you can tell me why because I have no idea why anybody would sell X-mas lights/cord coated with lead (it's great for productivity in manufacturing) to young families with small kids? This is only one product that will affect you and me in the long run, but not in Sams eyes. But it is going to cost someone to diagnose lead poisoning, This is where Wall-Mart and other's are leaching from society. Along with working employees in a manner which keeps them from gaining any steady part time job elsewhere.
Who said the unions can't talk to the employees? That being said, there is no legal obligation to let people walk around in the store and do sales pitches to the employees. Management has been given orders to not bother employees who try to convince others to join unions and that they can be in the break room promoting them. What would the benefit of letting random people walk around the store and badmouth Wal-Mart be? It would definitely disrupt business people walking around the store trying to get people to join unions.
ChesusRice
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Walmart is facing accusations that the company is engaged in a bold and illegal campaign to stamp out union activity after firing five employees in recent months who were involved in a group organizing the company’s workers.
Starting the first Wal-Mart employees' union in North America seemed a good
idea at the time to Sylvie Lavoie. The American retailing giant, with its $10bn
�5.3bn) annual profit, had set up shop in Jonquiere, a pretty little Canadian
town in northern Quebec.
Ms Lavoie believed the 190 employees needed a voice because "there was
injustice at the company and it did not respect its workforce". Now, after a
battle which has inspired and appalled the rest of Canada, she and her
colleagues are out of work, the store closed last week, union organizers said
they were threatened with violence, and Wal-Mart has moved out of town for good.
I’m here to tell you that Walmart actively violates its associates’ legal right to form a union. The company stops at nothing to prevent its associates from organizing—including repeatedly violating the law, firing workers, shutting down stores, and even discontinuing a company-wide meat-cutting service after the workers voted for a union.. For this reason, I urge the City Council to deny Walmart the opportunity to open stores in New York City.
[h=2]Wal-Mart settles charges of anti-union activity at Hastings store
By Scott Carlson
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch issued a new report, titled "Discounting Human
Rights: Wal-Mart’s Violation of US Workers’ Right to Freedom of Association,"
outlining the various ways the company works to keep labor unions from taking
hold among its employees.
“Wal-Mart workers have virtually no chance to organize because they’re
up
against unfair US labor laws and a giant company that will do just
about
anything to keep unions out,” said Carol Pier, senior researcher
on labor
rights and trade for Human Rights Watch. “That one-two punch
devastates
workers’ right to form and join unions.”
[video=youtube;OuZt0vYwvB4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZt0vYwvB4[/video]
It is a California warning label that says that and it is pretty much on all wires of that nature, not just those ones, and not just the ones sold at Wal-Mart. This is also on lead fishing weights, car batteries, bullets, ceramic dishes/cups, the cords on your tv, the cords on your phones, vinyl mini blinds, almost all vinyl products(car seats for instance), ect. The state of California is pretty retarded about warning labels, and the rest of us are getting there. It says "caution: may cause drowsiness" on a bottle of sleeping pills. How stupid can people get?
The christmas lights in question are not beyond the safe guidelines set by the government, and are barely over the guidelines set for toys for children. Beyond that, why are your children playing with christmas lights or any other power cords?
The reason they put lead in the cords is for fire safety and for keeping the cord from getting breaks in it and electrocuting you. Arguably, the small amount of lead isn't nearly as dangerous as getting electrocuted in the grand scheme of things. Like as not, you touch products that contain lead every single day and don't even realize it.
The meat cutter thing is partially correct. 11 people voted to join a union in Texas that cut meat, this made the costs of doing business too high at that store. They company realized it was not in its best interest to continue the meat cutting program. They did not fire any of the meat cutters, however. They simply bought meat from meat companies pre-packaged which was more cost effective than the wages were to cut mean even before union activity.Walmart is facing accusations that the company is engaged in a bold and illegal campaign to stamp out union activity after firing five employees in recent months who were involved in a group organizing the company’s workers.
Starting the first Wal-Mart employees' union in North America seemed a good
idea at the time to Sylvie Lavoie. The American retailing giant, with its $10bn
�5.3bn) annual profit, had set up shop in Jonquiere, a pretty little Canadian
town in northern Quebec.
Ms Lavoie believed the 190 employees needed a voice because "there was
injustice at the company and it did not respect its workforce". Now, after a
battle which has inspired and appalled the rest of Canada, she and her
colleagues are out of work, the store closed last week, union organizers said
they were threatened with violence, and Wal-Mart has moved out of town for good.
I’m here to tell you that Walmart actively violates its associates’ legal right to form a union. The company stops at nothing to prevent its associates from organizing—including repeatedly violating the law, firing workers, shutting down stores, and even discontinuing a company-wide meat-cutting service after the workers voted for a union.. For this reason, I urge the City Council to deny Walmart the opportunity to open stores in New York City.
Wal-Mart settles charges of anti-union activity at Hastings store
Posted: 1:00 am Fri, January 8, 2010
By Scott Carlson
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch issued a new report, titled "Discounting Human
Rights: Wal-Mart’s Violation of US Workers’ Right to Freedom of Association,"
outlining the various ways the company works to keep labor unions from taking
hold among its employees.
“Wal-Mart workers have virtually no chance to organize because they’re
up
against unfair US labor laws and a giant company that will do just
about
anything to keep unions out,” said Carol Pier, senior researcher
on labor
rights and trade for Human Rights Watch. “That one-two punch
devastates
workers’ right to form and join unions.”
[video=youtube;OuZt0vYwvB4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZt0vYwvB4[/video]
In Canada, the store they closed would no longer be profitable. It is what it is. You think Wal-Mart should be forced to keep a store open it can't make money at?
Did you watch that movie? A lot of this was at least 7 or 10 years ago for one based on the way they are talking. The 4% raise thing has been gone for a long time. I have actually been a member of the UFCW. They are just about useless. Does Josh strike you as someone you would hire to work for you? He seems like a dumbass to me.
As far as Wal-Mart reacting to unions and trying to keep them out... well duh.. the unions are trying to get in for a reason, maybe Wal-Mart is trying to keep them out for the same reason. Money. You are watching anti- Wal-Mart propaganda and taking it as facts. You might as well watch 'The Eternal Jew' and use that as a reasonable idea of what Jews are like. I have been there a long time and I can tell you with complete honesty that over the years I have been there I have never been mistreated aside from personal differences with individual people, I have always been treated with compassion at the multiple stores I have worked at permanently and temporarily. I have been hurt and they treated me good in those times too. Some of the most satisfying work I have ever done was with Wal-Mart. I spent time in many places in Florida when hurricanes came through and I personally handed out relief many times. I spent time in Louisiana after Katrina hit. If you have never worked for Wal-Mart, then you really shouldn't try to rail against it.
I am not saying the company is perfect, but it isn't like you, the unions, and the rest of the people who have never worked there say.
ChesusRice
Well-Known Member
What Walmart Doesn’t Say…
Walmart’s health care plans fail to cover hundreds of thousands of associates. In 2009, Walmart claimed that 52% of associates were covered under their healthcare plan. The company has refused to disclose coverage rates for its 1.4 million U.S. employees since then.[4]
Walmart stopped offering health insurance to part-time employees (working less than 24 hours per week) in 2012.[5]
Taxpayers are forced to provide healthcare for Walmart’s Associates. Hundreds of thousands of Associates and their family members qualify for publicly funded health insurance.[6] Indeed,according to data compiled by Good Jobs First, in 21 of 23 states which have disclosedinformation, Walmart has the largest number of employees on the public rolls of any employer.[7]
Recent Analysis:
Walmart’s health care plans fail to cover hundreds of thousands of associates. In 2009, Walmart claimed that 52% of associates were covered under their healthcare plan. The company has refused to disclose coverage rates for its 1.4 million U.S. employees since then.[4]
Walmart stopped offering health insurance to part-time employees (working less than 24 hours per week) in 2012.[5]
Taxpayers are forced to provide healthcare for Walmart’s Associates. Hundreds of thousands of Associates and their family members qualify for publicly funded health insurance.[6] Indeed,according to data compiled by Good Jobs First, in 21 of 23 states which have disclosedinformation, Walmart has the largest number of employees on the public rolls of any employer.[7]
Recent Analysis:
- Missouri: In early 2011, Walmart led all employers with 10,028 employees and their dependents enrolled in Missouri’s Medicaid program, known as MO HealthNet (MHN). Enrollees included 2,403 employees, 827 employee spouses, and 6,798 children of employees.[8]
- Massachusetts: In FY09, Walmart led all employers with 10,171 employees and their dependents using publicly subsidized health care. Enrollees included 5,072 employees and 5,699 dependents.[9]
- Connecticut: In 2011, Walmart topped the list of Medicaid employers. As of May 2011, 3,654 Medicaid enrollees in the state were either Walmart associates (1,189 recipients) or the children of associates (2,465 recipients).[10]
Grandpapy
Well-Known Member
So in your mind you could never see kids putting lights on a tree.
And just barely over the limit?
Tell them not to lick them. Tell them not to grind it up into dust and ingest it. Other than that, they will be fine.So in your mind you could never see kids putting lights on a tree.
And just barely over the limit?