I understand many's concerns with this, but I have to add that my wife works for Wal*Mart, I am not at liberty to say too much here, but I have to say that in these hard economic times, that I am thankful my wife has a job, especially since my own wages were cut.
For one thing, many are misinformed about the benefits that associate's at Wal*Mart do have. My wife makes way above minimum wage, she has vacation time, a quarterly bonus, a 401K, stock purchase, holiday pay and health and dental benefits, also short and long term disability. Believe me, she worked many jobs without ANY benefits, so at least here she has them.
I am not a big advocate of Wal*Mart, but they do provide jobs to many thousands of people.
I do wish that they were Unionized, but as of now, people such as my wife can not even mention Union for fear of losing their jobs. Sad, isn't it?
All we can hope for is that the Free Choice Act is passed.
And that they get rid of outsourcing and abolish the NAFTA agreement. That would bring jobs back to the American people.
If you shop at ANY retailer, you will find that the majority of products are from overseas.
This again, is sad. Buy AMERICAN? How? When there is nothing being manufactured here.
Just look at all the empty Industrial parks across the country. We are nothing but a warehouse for products made elsewhere.
And cheap garbage products at that.
Let's make this country UNION strong and AMERICAN PROUD once again!
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