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Old Feb 19th, 2004, 11:59 PM       
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Originally Posted by AChimp
Yeah, but so what? The workers at Wal-Mart don't have any need to be unionized. It's a minimum wage job.
Walmart is one of the worst exploiters of the working poor. They make most sales staff put in work weeks just under 40 hours, so that they can be classified as part-time and thus not have to receive benefits or full-time pay. Given the fact that their hours are still spread over 5 days, it might as well be a full-time work week. There are also several stories of Walmart management encouraging workers to apply for social welfare benefits, thus effectively getting the local governments to subsidize Walmart's operating costs while demanding these same governments lower the taxes levied on its stores. As well, in spite of their ads that say they are active in the community, the majority of the profits go to Walmart's head offices in the U.S., so the company doesn't re-invest substantially in the communities in which it does business. Any patriotic Canadian would tell the Waltons to go give themselves jalapeno hotsauce enemas.
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