Blanket statement not based in fact. Some of the "manufacturers" are sole owners of fledgling business that have only one distributor, Walmart. Walmart will threaten to just buy a similar product from China to force price cuts. I can't believe you're defending Walmart.
Do you live in your mother's basement or something?
I'll take your word for it.
the mill i work at just picked up making motor mounts for cat. is that bad news?
No
we're definitely under.
No worries
How did that fledgling company get to be in that position? Could it be that they threw all their eggs in a basket out of greed?
Wal-Mart does not make you sign a no-union pledge. In fact, the NLRA makes that illegal. Having been through Wal-Marts union training a half dozen times, I can tell you that you are absolutely incorrect. There is a video for hourly workers that describes Wal-Marts views on why unions are not needed, but no one asks you to sign that you won't join one and that would promptly get a manager fired if he attempted that.
I've done the same job union and non union at different companies. I also went from union worker to non union manager in a meat plant in Illinois. (Meat plant under UFCW) I can honestly tell you that the pay wasn't better from one to the other. The only difference was paying dues. I was also a mechanical insulator in a union for a while and did the same job non union. It wasn't much different in pay.
Wal-Marts video on unions when you get hired if you are hourly has the catch line 'Wal-Mart isn't anti-union, it is pro associate!" Occassionally, people in the company treat people badly. The company itself does a pretty good job of regulating itself and taking care of its people. Everything does tie together and unions do have an influence on everything in the country. I guess it becomes a question of your vision for the world. Should someone who works at a remedial job with no education make 30k a year with all the benefits they can handle out of the gate? Do you bump up the doctors and people who went to school for 8 years to make up for raising the pay for the underclass? Does paying people more if it raises the prices of everything thereby negating the pay increase do anyone any good? If it weren't for the minimum wage people, the people making 20 bucks an hour would be poor. It works both ways - Wal-Mart makes life on union pay good and keeps the costs of living down. If everyone made union pay then union pay would suck as the prices in the country would rise to make union pay the new minimum wage if they were payed more at all. You can't buy a $1 burger if you are paying the people ringing you up and making your burgers $15 an hour. It is a balancing act, you can't let the scale tip one way or another. The honest fact is that Unions are falling apart because they are starting to reach the twilight of their usefulness in our society. We are getting to the point where we don't need a union. Why? Because the people of the country demand certain things from companies aside from prices and items. They demand ethical practices. If you don't like a place, you don't shop there or work there.
The shittiest jobs I ever had were Union. They just paid well.
Calling someone greedy just because they're trying to better themselves is dishonest and makes you look petty and jealous. You work for a living? You greedy bastard!
