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.