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cyu @sh.itjust.works

2y ago

Walmart to lower wages by $1, possibly setting industry standard

www.thestreet.com /retailers/walmart-surprises-with-industry-leading-change-wages-superstores

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At the self checkout (cuz they cut their cashier staff) : "Would you like to donate a dollar to Children's Stollary Hospital?
THE BALLS ON THESE MOTHERFUCKERS
- Anytime you're asked that, it should be read as "would you like to donate to our tax break".
  Just say no to all of them and donate to the causes you want to support yourself.
  
  When asked this question by a cashier, i will ask them if the company matches donations. They reply has usually been no, when it simply wasnt just IDK.
  
  That's not how it works.
  https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
  Edit: downvoted for refuting misinformation lmao, a very easily googleable wives tale that has circulated and been disproven countless times.

Insane inflation caused mostly by the profiteering of companies like Walmart causing people to starve and Walmart to profit like never before and even increase their market share!
Do Walmart do the only humane and honorable thing and share their windfall with the people who made it possible and who need it more than ever? FUCK NO! They steal wages from the already desperately poor and add them to their fucking useless treasure hoard! 🤬
- Well a rich person always needs "a little more" that they can squeeze out of poor people.
- Printing money for "stimulus" didn't help either. Neither did the corporate bailouts.
  
  Stimulus money helped many Americans survive another week or month?

So, I don't know if you all knew this or not, but WalMart has everything inside to start a proper medieval riot. Pitchforks, sticks, cloth, I'm even pretty sure they have something we can use as pitch in the camping section. Or we can modernize. They have glass bottles, lighter fluid, rags, and lighters. And the best part is if you use it all inside the store you don't even have to pay for it.
- Dosent walmart also have guns
  
  It does!

Walmart: what if we further sharpened the contradictions of the system we benefit from?

Stop shopping at walmart
- That will surely change things! My guy this world isn't changed by individual choices no matter how much you want to believe it.
  You want improved conditions in Walmart? Tell their workers to unionize and fight for their dignity.
  
  Tell that to AB after the whole Bud Light thing. Individual protests DO actually add up just fine.

Walmart to offer new hires $14 instead of $15.
FTFY, they're not docking the pay of existing employees.
- Which is worse, class A and B citizens. Recipe for disaster
  
  Very common, all the 1980s employees in my work have better conditions
- Doesn't make them less horrible.

I love it when they make the organizing easier

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