You go, Wal-Mart!

[Dick Starbuck]

Great move! Not that I love Wal-Mart, but I hate unions!

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2005/02/09/walmart-050209.html

-Dick.

Serves 'em right!

 

[S.C. Joe]

Yeah way to go Wal Mart, treat your employees like crap, don't care about what the law in Canada might say.

Wal Mart is being sued too for breaking the labour laws of Canada.

Put down GM, Ford cause they treat their workers much better.

 

[james t kirk]

So, you're happy about people losing their jobs?

You support billionaires stomping on guys making 7 bucks an hour?

Oh, I see, you think that because these poor slobs want to make 8 bucks an hour that that will take a piece of pie away from you. Very admirable.

BTW, Bill Gates gave 58% of his profits last year to charity.

The owners of Walmart - less than 1%.

More reasons why I don't shop at Walmart.

 

[TDL2003]

Last Updated: Monday, February 14, 2005

That article is from 3.5 years ago!

 

[S.C. Joe]

Well I didn't click it on, I did read yesterday about Wally shuting down a tire auto bay at a store that voted for a union, the store is staying open but the auto bay which was going union is now closed.

Hmm, can't recall where I seen it thou.

 

[Gentle Ben]

read yesterday about Wally shuting down a tire auto bay at a store that voted for a union,

Hmm, can't recall where I seen it thou.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/10/17/walmart-union.html

 

[S.C. Joe]

Cool but the story I seen talked about Wally breaking Canada labour laws and a lawsuit still pending.


Breaking labour laws is nothing new for Wal Mart, in the USA they have been fine for hiring too young of workers-working them too late, cheating on pay-they work 8 1/2 hours, Wal would pay them for 8 hours.

Maybe GM has cheated the gov out of tax favors, so GM isn't perfect either but there has to be better company's to work for than Wal Mart.

 

[5hummer]

Great move! Not that I love Wal-Mart, but I hate unions!

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2005/02/09/walmart-050209.html

-Dick.

Serves 'em right!

So you'd rather go back and do a 14hr shift, 2 minute lunch and no breaks?

 

[The Bandit]

So you'd rather go back and do a 14hr shift, 2 minute lunch and no breaks?

Don't get rediculous now...

Where I work it's 9-5 and get paid for 8 hrs, with 30 min lunch, but no breaks.

 

[a 1 player]

***Here comes another 6 page union debate, I can feel it***

 

[The Bandit]

I bet you there are more places closing that have unions, than one's that are getting unions. Unions are in decline and have been for years....going the way of the do-do bird.

Why do you think Buzz is stepping down...because he has no answer for the CAW workers that are losing their jobs.

 

[lawyerman]

There are some unions which are quite good and some that are not so good.
I have dealt with many of them and I can tell you that from experience.
There are advantages and disadvantages with unions.

It is very similar to companies as well. There are good and bad.

There is no clear cut winner.

 

[tboy]

Yeah way to go Wal Mart, treat your employees like crap, don't care about what the law in Canada might say.

Wal Mart is being sued too for breaking the labour laws of Canada.

Put down GM, Ford cause they treat their workers much better.

Joe: have any proof of this?

Something EVERYONE has to understand, whether you believe in it or not society NEEDS low paying jobs. Not everyone can make $15 $20 or $30 an hour. As I've always said: if everyone did? Be prepared for a $10.00 litre of milk and $20.00 litre of gasoline.

Frankly if people want to earn more money, they should get a better education, learn a trade, and strive to better themselves.

Now, if Walmart was such a terrible place to work, why are there never many job postings for positions there and why are there so many employees?

As for working an 8 hr shift with no breaks, that's illegal under Canada labour law. I can't recall if it is 1 or 2 breaks required in addition to the 30 minute lunch but you are entitled to one at least.

Now don't get me wrong, I positively HATE walmart, I rarely shop there and was just there last saturday, found something to buy, went to the cash and there was about 100 people in one line to 2 checkouts. I dropped my stuff and walked out because that's just insanity.

 

[ig-88]

go to wal-marts often in the us and canada

no real complaints, other than the lack of hot chicks

 

[Geoff]

Not about the Union,

But who wants $8.75 mechanics working on their cars?

 

[big dogie]

I know people that have worked at Wal-Mart, they are treated very well get promoted from within to jobs off the floor and get very well paid for it... everyone in this country believes they are CEO material from the get go a little reality would go a long way....

b d

 

[Keebler Elf]

Don't get rediculous now...

Where I work it's 9-5 and get paid for 8 hrs, with 30 min lunch, but no breaks.

And you wouldn't have that had there not been, and continue to be, unions.

 

[Keebler Elf]

That original article is way out of date. There's been subsequent developments. IIRC, Walmart has since been unionized in other locations across Canada and they've received a negative Decision from the Quebec courts.

It's become a matter of when Walmart will be unionized in Canada, not if.

When someone tells you they "hate" unions, rest assured, they're uninformed and/or have an axe to grind.

 

[LancsLad]

That original article is way out of date. There's been subsequent developments. IIRC, Walmart has since been unionized in other locations across Canada and they've received a negative Decision from the Quebec courts.

It's become a matter of when Walmart will be unionized in Canada, not if.

When someone tells you they "hate" unions, rest assured, they're uninformed and/or have an axe to grind.

Whats your local, "brother", and i don't mean your favourite pub.





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[tboy]

And you wouldn't have that had there not been, and continue to be, unions.

Keeb, not one ever argued that unions were needed at one point in our history when the elite would use and abuse workers to reap their profits.

Thanks to unions we now have many labour laws to protect the rights of workers. Hence why I've said, and will continue to say, that unions are mainly self-serving now and their main goal is to rape a company in the short term.

Now if a union's main focus was on insuring a worker (or group of workers) weren't abused, then I'd agree, they are necessary. But when they move their focus away from "equal work for equal pay" they lose total credibility in my book. Take GM for eg: they have and pay more non-working union workers than they have actually building cars. How is THAT fair and equitable?