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everything in my post is correct
If and only if a union were strictly between a business and its workers.
everything in my post is correct
There's a great barrack-room lawyer's response!
Maybe if companies were required to do due diligence on their suppliers to ensure that the the same health and safety standards were applied as if they were in-country, then these things wouldn't happen.
if the point is that working at Wal Mart is little better than a root canal then perhaps he did make that point. Sadly, the root canal - once done - is over while the drone like WM job keeps hurting day after day after day. So perhaps we should change it to a series of never ending root canals.
First, you cannot declare by your personal observation at a single store on a thursday night that all the people at Wal Mart work 'incredibly hard.' I suspect they work no harder than emplyees of K Mart, Target, Hollister, Toys R Us, or any one of a thousand other retail stores that pay roughly the same and have exactly the same working conditions. Second, you claim to have worked in retail, how much did you make? Why are you no longer there? Did you use that retail experience to get a better job? And could it not be said that you exploited the retailer you worked for in that they hired you, trained you, and gave you the work experience you needed to move up in the world, then left them?I knew I was wasting my time the moment I typed "the least you can do is try to understand it." It should have been obvious to me that you set your bar a little lower than the point of comprehension. I was comparing the psychological reasons that compel people to stay in a situation that is detrimental to their long term well being and I made that clear.
The people who work at Walmart work incredibly hard. I was there on Thursday night and I saw hundreds of people running around the store and I remember working in retail (and the time a coffee shop I worked at ran a promotion where they gave away free blended drinks which was traumatic) and it's amazing what those people do. You've deflected a lot of other people's opinions but aren't eager to offer up your own. Why do Walmart employees stay there? Do they like their jobs? Do they deserve whatever they get because they can walk out the door at any time and find a new job, but they don't?
I've already shared my opinion as to why they stay there. But whatever the reason is, this much is clear - they work extremely hard, they are the foundation of Walmart and they deserve to have a voice and fair compensation. Also, while I think most Walmart employees want more in life than what they've got, some of them simply don't care about getting rich, but that doesn't mean they're forfeiting their right to speak up for themselves. They shouldn't live knowing they'll lose their house if their child gets cancer just because they don't make enough money to afford a top shelf health care policy.
Yeah .... and the reason that they have that is because of the leadership system, instead of looking at short term profits they look at long term viability and workmanship, and that is because the board is run half by the workers, who have a much more long term stake in the buisiness than liquid shareholders, they also stop outsourcing and they make sure that the benefits go to the workers and not just to profits.
Way to go ignore history. Germany has had a manufacturing reputation since prior to WW2. Leadership is part of it, its certainly not all of it. Youre wrong about German board makeup, by the way, as well. Unions and mgmt work out conciliatory compromises, its not an us versus them mentality that has always existed between unions and business here in the US.
Its funny, I believe thats sort of what Hostess offered was a 25% stake in the company and the union turned it down. shrug
The reason you ahve that dynamic between unions and management is because labor is IN the leadership, i.e. they partially choose who the management is, they make up half the board.
That has to do with the POWER of unions.
German manufacturing reputation prior to WW2 is not the same as it is today.
CEO compensation is determined by their market value. Why is Messi (or any highly paid athlete) paid so many millions a year? Because he can do something that most people can't. There are only a few people in the world that can compete on his level. He consistently provides results. You can't say that putting some guy off the street in his spot would produce similar results.No, it doesn't. What you speak of would raise employee salaries, skilled workers, and not CEO pay, not at the level we're speaking of.
They are largely over rated and need a sound work force, without show we've seen them fail. Interesting though that you'd try and make excuses for the foolish practice of overpaying them.
The reason you ahve that dynamic between unions and management is because labor is IN the leadership, i.e. they partially choose who the management is, they make up half the board.
That has to do with the POWER of unions.
German manufacturing reputation prior to WW2 is not the same as it is today.
Its amazing you can talk about values and then ignore them as they apply to the rest of the argument. Of course it isnt the same, it was mostly bombed out. They have reps on the board, they cant sway votes with that representation its primarily as a measure to ensure labor's interests are heard as part of strategy. Your idea that they control boards is ludicrous.
The unions in America no longer have any power. They make up only 7% of the workforce here, and are dwindling. People ignored the astro turf the UFCW put up to get the deals. Even the employees ignored it. It was a defeat, and a joke.
Which is why you dont have credibility on this issue, over the top hyperbole doesnt do much to convince people. Move along.
I don't think you understand what I am saying. I know how a corporation works in theory. The CEO shouldn't be paid in salary and bonuses, he should strictly own a portion of the business and realize the profits and losses. Perhaps, all senior executives should be organized like this, they should not represent the board of directors, they should BE the board of directors. Make it so you can't pay executives of a corporation a salary/bonus/stock package; and you will see those management positions being filled by people who strictly want the business to succeed because of their personal stake in the business.
Not sure that anyone who has not worked at WalMart is really qualified to discuss what working there is like. But anyone who compares it to a root canal pretty much disqualifies himself. But since you seem to think yourself qualified, perhaps you could clear up why WalMart is the focus of evil and every other retailer whose pay and working conditions are identical gets a pass. An Agenda perhaps?Perhaps you can list your credentials to tell us all what qualifies you to judge who may or may not speak about a Wal Mart job let alone attack me for daring to comment about them?
That isn't a democratic economy, we have a plutocracy, i.e. an economy run by the rich, it's one dollar one vote, and whoever has the property makes the rules.
I wnat an economy which is one person one vote, a socialist economy IS a democratic economy, by definition.
Also no one disagrees with supply and demand principles, it's just who controls the supply and who makes the demand, the answer to both of those questions in capitalism is the capitalist and the people with the most money, the socialist answer is the people democratically.
Exactly, and with the decline of Unions comes the decline of the middle class.
"run by the rich" ? Hmmm, then did the rich reelect obama? If so, why don't you hate obama as much as you hate the rich?
Last I heard Texas was part of the United States where you were free to leave your employer for one that you liked and respected. I hope you told your mother to quit immediately so someone that wouldn't mind working for that poor management could have the job?
Not sure that anyone who has not worked at WalMart is really qualified to discuss what working there is like. But anyone who compares it to a root canal pretty much disqualifies himself. But since you seem to think yourself qualified, perhaps you could clear up why WalMart is the focus of evil and every other retailer whose pay and working conditions are identical gets a pass. An Agenda perhaps?
Not sure that anyone who has not worked at WalMart is really qualified to discuss what working there is like. But anyone who compares it to a root canal pretty much disqualifies himself. But since you seem to think yourself qualified, perhaps you could clear up why WalMart is the focus of evil and every other retailer whose pay and working conditions are identical gets a pass. An Agenda perhaps?
I don't HATE the rich, thats a straw man, I just don't want a select few running an economy.
Corelation does not indicate causation. One could just as easily show corelation of the increased use of computers, the increase in fuel effeciency of cars or the increased availability of new technology allowing production per worker to increase. You simply show close (but not exact) corelation of two factors, but not causation.