Tuesday, November 19, 2013

At A Minimum

Via ThinkProgress:

A Walmart in northeast Ohio is holding a holiday canned food drive — for its own underpaid employees. “Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,” a sign reads in the employee lounge of a Canton-area Walmart.

Kory Lundberg, a Walmart spokesman, says the drive is a positive thing. “This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships,” he said. Indeed, Lundberg is correct that it’s commendable to make an effort to help out those who are in need, especially during the holidays.

But the need for a food drive illustrates how difficult it is for Walmart workers to get by on its notoriously low pay. The company has long been plagued by charges that it doesn’t pay its employees a real living wage.

So what does it tell you about the “company’s culture” when you pay employees such a low wage they have hold a food drive for some of them?

Did you know that the Walton family is worth $150 billion?

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  1. Well, it shows that “trickle-down” really DOES work. It shows that the Waltons have their employees best interests at heart, and want to make sure the staff enjoys one good meal a year.

    Just THINK of all the Teabaggers, reich-wing loonies and dipsh!t rethuglicans masturbating to the thought of children starving on Thanksgiving…

    • It shows that the Waltons… want to make sure the staff enjoys one good meal a year.

      As opposed to the other one thousand ninety four when they do without, I suppose. Maybe they have food drives on Christmas, too: in that case it’s one thousand ninety three.

      Seems somebody read Dickens and took his work as instruction manual and not social criticism.

      Isn’t it bad enough when Walmart’s profits are roughly equal to its various tax breaks? Or that the plurality of their workers qualify for SNAP and Medicaid? IIRC that sounds suspiciously like Workfare from the ’70s – and it’s not a business model the US has any reason to subsidize.

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