Madeline
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Here are just a few of Walmart employees' problems:
Extremely poor wages, usually no more than $1 above minimum wage even for the most experienced hourly workers.
No benefits, or none paid for by the employer.
Not enough employees hired and paid as full time; too many scheduled at 35 hours a week or less to prevent them from becoming FT.
Forcing employees to work off the clock. (This is a repeated Walmart labor law violation that has occured so often it has the appearance of de facto company policy.)
Unfair labor practices aimed at preventing unionization, including wrongful discharge of employees that try to promote organizing.
Oddly, Walmart announced today (June 3, 2010) that it will help pay the cost of an employee's tuition to an on-line university called American Public University -- brick and mortar schools will not be eligible for the reimbursement. While the move seems pro-employee, the fact is these degrees may not be marketable to other employers. If an employee gambles and takes on student loan debt in an effort to find a way to earn a decent of standard of living working for Walmart and that never happenes, Walmart will have mislead that employee into non-bankruptable debt that may break the backs of the families dependent on this company. I read this story and my first thought was "who owns this college? I have never even heard of it before." I am willing to bet $5, it is owned in some indirect way by Walmart.
Walmart launches employee college plan | cleveland.com
I see this as more "window dressing" to try and halt the employees' efforts to unionize.
I will freely admit that I despise Walmart. As all of us know, a Walmart will kill the business center of a neighborhood or small town, and the loss of those jobs is yet another predatory act that damages Walmart employees. They cannot find other employment (or lose the income from a small business they owned killed by Walmart) and are stuck with working for Walmart as their only option.
WalMart is Pure Evil
Extremely poor wages, usually no more than $1 above minimum wage even for the most experienced hourly workers.
No benefits, or none paid for by the employer.
Not enough employees hired and paid as full time; too many scheduled at 35 hours a week or less to prevent them from becoming FT.
Forcing employees to work off the clock. (This is a repeated Walmart labor law violation that has occured so often it has the appearance of de facto company policy.)
Unfair labor practices aimed at preventing unionization, including wrongful discharge of employees that try to promote organizing.
Oddly, Walmart announced today (June 3, 2010) that it will help pay the cost of an employee's tuition to an on-line university called American Public University -- brick and mortar schools will not be eligible for the reimbursement. While the move seems pro-employee, the fact is these degrees may not be marketable to other employers. If an employee gambles and takes on student loan debt in an effort to find a way to earn a decent of standard of living working for Walmart and that never happenes, Walmart will have mislead that employee into non-bankruptable debt that may break the backs of the families dependent on this company. I read this story and my first thought was "who owns this college? I have never even heard of it before." I am willing to bet $5, it is owned in some indirect way by Walmart.
Walmart launches employee college plan | cleveland.com
I see this as more "window dressing" to try and halt the employees' efforts to unionize.
I will freely admit that I despise Walmart. As all of us know, a Walmart will kill the business center of a neighborhood or small town, and the loss of those jobs is yet another predatory act that damages Walmart employees. They cannot find other employment (or lose the income from a small business they owned killed by Walmart) and are stuck with working for Walmart as their only option.
WalMart is Pure Evil
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