Walmart Strike

[pathtofreedom]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/walmart-protest-movement_n_3354735.html
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174551/walmart-workers-launch-first-ever-prolonged-strikes-today
Hopefully the workers get something more than the artificially subsidized wages that they get. Overall unions have been greatly weakened by right to work laws and anti-union regulations.

 

[TaftFan]

They are probably overpaid as it is.

 

[pathtofreedom]

They are probably overpaid as it is.

Starvation wages are overpaid?

 

[TaftFan]

Starvation wages are overpaid?

I rarely ever see starving Wal-Mart workers.

I did see this female employee the other day. She was drop dead beautiful. But back to the point, she was just walking around the store playing with bike horns with another employee.

The point is, I RARELY see Walmart employees doing anything other than standing around or doing unskilled labor.

 

[Cutlerzzz]

Starvation wages are overpaid?

Yeah, those Walmart employees need more meat on their bones. It's not like the American lower class has the highest obesity rate in the world.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

if you're going to work at walmart you may as well just collect food stamps, seriously. Jobs like that are for teenagers.

 

[pathtofreedom]

I don't see what is wrong with striking. They aren't asking for government privileges. I get that there will always be rich people but it shouldn't mean a small group of people owning the majority of the world's resources.

 

[Ender]

I don't see what is wrong with striking. They aren't asking for government privileges. I get that there will always be rich people but it shouldn't mean a small group of people owning the majority of the world's resources.

Unions are part of the problem and should never be supported.

If a Walmart employee doesn't like their job, go some where else.

 

[pathtofreedom]

Unions are part of the problem and should never be supported.

If a Walmart employee doesn't like their job, go some where else.

Unions are not part of the problem they are an example of market forces at work.

 

[Ender]

Unions are not part of the problem they are an example of market forces at work.

So, why does Ron Paul calls unions unconstitutional?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLhe5-tmOQ

 

[pathtofreedom]

So, why does Ron Paul calls unions unconstitutional?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLhe5-tmOQ

Because he doesn't like unions. I don't support government protections to union however there is nothing in the constitution restricting unions. Unions are an example of voluntary association and freedom of assembly.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

So, why does Ron Paul calls unions unconstitutional?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLhe5-tmOQ

He doesn't call unions unconstitutional. lol. He calls laws that dictate wages and who can or can't work are unconstitutional.

 

[TaftFan]

Private sector collectivism-such as unions, insurance, banks, and corporations-do have their role but often times show their bad sides as they are concentrations of power.

The key is to have free market competition to curb that power.

 

[cindy25]

I rarely ever see starving Wal-Mart workers.

I did see this female employee the other day. She was drop dead beautiful. But back to the point, she was just walking around the store playing with bike horns with another employee.

The point is, I RARELY see Walmart employees doing anything other than standing around or doing unskilled labor.

because Wal Mart workers are subsidized by medicaid, food stamps, rent subsidies............

 

[cindy25]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/costco-profits_n_3359033.html

 

[Weston White]

Unions have nothing to do with the government; save for public employee unions for those working within local, state and federal governments or government operated businesses or instruments.

The “free market” has no bearing upon the employees of any union. Generally, businesses do not profit-share with their blue/white collar employees (e.g., if Walmart has a windfall year, they are not going to double their employee’s wages, with likely exception to their executive’s and board’s salaries of course).

The real problem, I feel (aside from outright corporate greed), is special interest lobbyists and direct government intervention in the affairs of private businesses through a combination of over-regulation, subsidies, tax incentives, statutory constraint, coordinated partnerships and backdoor dealings, and the like.

 

[Rudeman]

If Costco's model continues to be successful others will eventually follow, there doesn't need to be a law to demand it. Also correlation does not imply causation, just because Costco pays its employees more doesn't mean that is the reason they've been recently successful.

 

[Ender]

He doesn't call unions unconstitutional. lol. He calls laws that dictate wages and who can or can't work are unconstitutional.

Exactly- which is what unions do. Try working for companies controlled by unions without belonging to the union.

Unions are NOT an example of voluntary association and freedom of assembly.

 

[angelatc]

Starvation wages are overpaid?

Look what these forums have become. Just....wow.

 

[angelatc]

Unions have nothing to do with the government; save for public employee unions for those working within local, state and federal governments or government operated businesses or instruments.

What? The NLRB only steps in for government unions? Obama didn't steal an auto company and give it to a union? Wow. I must be totally uninformed about such things.