View Single Post
Old 09-26-2006, 10:20 AM   #47 (permalink)
Cynthetiq
Tilted Cat Head
 
Cynthetiq's Avatar
 
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
Quote:
Originally Posted by pan6467
Ask RubberMaid what Wal*Mart did to them.

RubberMaid was a very profitable company that paid their workers very well.

All of a sudden Wal*Mart decided to cut RubberMaid's prices without RubberMaid's consent.

When RubberMaid argued and said "no, we will not cut our prices".

Wal*Mart dropped RubberMaid products (as an example of what they can do to companies) put in the cheaper Sterilite products (by the way Wal*Mart owns a portion of). Sterilite and their subsidiaries (such as North Canton Plastics) hire from temp services then cut those employees before they are eligible for full time, or in NCP's case they only have 10 full time billets (which include the receptionist, the shop mechanics, the 3 officers and 3 shift supervisors). This way they do not have to pay things such as insurance, unemployment, workers comp. etc. They pay the temp service basically $8.50 per person and the temp service pays $6.50 per person.

So in essence you have destroyed well paying jobs for jobs that people cannot afford to live on, have no benefits (no vacation time, and you call in sick one time, you can lose your job). And yet, Neo-cons are okay with the movement backwards and believe this is ok.

That is what Wal*Mart produces, and the practices they execute.

Would a union help? Perhaps. But what is more important is for people to stand up and say, "enough, pay workers liveable wages. Stop the bullshit."

How anyone can defend these practices is beyond me.
cut prices without their consent? one cannot cut prices and get goods without some sort of consent.

did they say, something along the lines of "this is the price we'd like to pay for your goods? if you cannot compete we'll find another company that can..."

seems fair to me in a capitalism based system.
__________________
I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.
Cynthetiq is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360