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OtherGround Forum >> Commie Unions are un-American! Yea Capitalism!
| 11/24/12 12:45 PM | |
karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15781 |
"There was an employee walkout at a Walmart Supercenter in St. Cloud, Fla., on Wednesday morning, but even if you were shopping there when it happened you probably would have missed it. The walkout included just one worker -- Vanessa Ferreira, age 59. Ferreira informed her manager publicly Wednesday morning that she was going on strike. The other employees watched her walk out of the store, then went back to doing their jobs. Within a half hour, Ferreira would be told by police outside that she was trespassing and ordered to leave. She's worked in the store's cake department for eight years, and she earns $11.90 an hour, she said. "I love to decorate cakes," Ferreira said Wednesday. "That's my priority -- to do my cakes the best I can." As much as she loves her job, there's plenty Ferreira doesn't like about her employer. According to Ferreira, Walmart's wages are too low for workers to survive on, and the company keeps too many of its employees on part-time status, leaving them to rely on government assistance to get by."-------- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/21/walmart-strikes-black-friday_n_2174166.html?utm_hp_ref=business&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D237658 |
| 11/24/12 12:46 PM | |
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karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15782 |
"Within a half hour, Ferreira would be told by police outside that she was trespassing and ordered to leave."--------article I wonder if that COP was a union member? |
| 11/24/12 12:49 PM | |
TheAssMurderer
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Member Since: 11/17/05 Posts: 9078 |
karasu - "Within a half hour, Ferreira would be told by police outside that she was trespassing and ordered to leave."--------article lol. bad job market to be walking out on your job. |
| 11/24/12 1:16 PM | |
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nevertap
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Member Since: 7/12/05 Posts: 835 |
If she was the only employee to walk out than it was just that. SHE walked out. That has nothing to do with an organized strike from an organized labor union. 
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| 11/24/12 1:17 PM | |
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Stache
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Member Since: 10/16/10 Posts: 5293 |
What did she expect would happen? |
| 11/24/12 1:59 PM | |
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gregbrady
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Member Since: 1/9/02 Posts: 24620 |
It gives me hope for America that there are employees of wal-mart that have the ambition and intelligence to try and unionize. Whatever your feelings towards unions you have to agree it's complete horseshit that a fulltime employee at wal-mart gets paid so little the taxpayers have to subsidize their food bill. every tax payer should be pissed about that. the wal-mart heirs are worth as much as the bottom 41.5% of American families. |
| 11/24/12 2:15 PM | |
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karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15783 |
gregbrady - It gives me hope for America that there are employees of wal-mart that have the ambition and intelligence to try and unionize. VOTED...................................................UP!!!! |
| 11/24/12 2:19 PM | |
MickColins
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Member Since: 7/14/08 Posts: 10093 |
""I love to decorate cakes," Ferreira said Wednesday. "That's my priority -- to do my cakes the best I can."
She makes 12 bucks an hour to decorate cakes. And she's bitching? Thats a job a teenager would be doing 50 years ago. |
| 11/24/12 2:24 PM | |
OblongBox
Member Since: 10/21/09 Posts: 1255 |
I don't have a lot of sympathy for her. She's been decorating cakes at walmart for 8 years? Does she not know she can moonlight her own little cake decorating business on the side by now? |
| 11/24/12 2:30 PM | |
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karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15785 |
MickColins - HATER! Respect the culinary arts! I loves me some good food and thankful and respectful to those who take an interest in making it better! |
| 11/24/12 3:05 PM | |
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matt murdock
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 13760 |
Her labor isn't worth more than her pay, I'm not sure why she thinks she deserves more money. If she's so valuable she should take her services elsewhere and get the money she deserves. |
| 11/25/12 1:56 AM | |
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karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15786 |
I support this woman and her efforts to make USA better for the people! |
| 11/25/12 2:37 AM | |
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Macedawgg
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Member Since: 7/2/03 Posts: 14239 |
It is truly amazing how many dupes advocate positions that are completely hostile to their own well-being. Perhaps they will get their way--a Wal-Mart SuperCenter every 8 blocks, Wal-Mart grocery/smaller center every 4 blocks, and a Wal-Mart corner store. . . These same people will continue to rally the cry--that's all they are worth, as jobs disappear, wages continue to decline, and any hope of leverage is gone as the monster acquires more ground. Of course, the schools will continue to go to shit, as Wal-Mart is notorious for paying no property taxes--part of the deal they strike with localities for all that great employment they bring, and the carrot of paying large sums of taxes when the subsidy sunsets. Of course, the subsidy doesn't sunset, as Walmart just threatens to leave and move . . . |
| 11/25/12 10:27 AM | |
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gregbrady
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Member Since: 1/9/02 Posts: 24631 |
Macedawgg - more and more ppl are waking up to their bullshit. wal mart wanted to put in a store down the street from me and there was such a large public outcry they pulled out. |
| 11/25/12 10:30 AM | |
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TheParrot
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Member Since: 9/10/09 Posts: 4092 |
gregbrady - It gives me hope for America that there are employees of wal-mart that have the ambition and intelligence to try and unionize. Ambition? She decorated cakes at walmart for 8 fucking years. wtf are you talking about?
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| 11/25/12 10:47 AM | |
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alkysmurf
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Member Since: 2/7/09 Posts: 1355 |
Again, I work in a large retail grocer, you get paid what your worth. I don't understand how people can try to argue otherwise. In the 3yrs I've been with my company I've taken every opportunity that's come along and I'm making double my starting wage. Sure I'm not a typical og'er living large, but I do OK. We have allot of people like this, these jobs are not for people trying to raise families with this for primary income, kids in/just out of school, retiree's, secondary income... oh and my department is unionized, I work every holiday, and receive 16hrs of holiday pay per year, and loose 13/week to the union. Insurance sucks, and the rest of the store gets treated identically to those in the union. Guess what your 1 member and the union has to maintain a relationship with the company, who do you think wins, def not your 13/week. You'd have to unionize against your union to get anything changed. 
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| 11/25/12 11:08 PM | |
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karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15790 |
"Insurance sucks"------^ Maybe that is what she is trying to change for people like YOU and make it so that the you and the rest of USA has the same good healthcare of other modern developed nations. |
| 11/25/12 11:10 PM | |
Pessimist_Pete
Member Since: 9/3/12 Posts: 738 |
gregbrady - It gives me hope for America that there are employees of wal-mart that have the ambition and intelligence to try and unionize.Fuck you.
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| 11/25/12 11:12 PM | |
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aritwo
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Member Since: 12/23/11 Posts: 785 |
i spend my whole life studying to be a doctor, a job that < .33% of america can do i'm considered a villain who is ruining this country and forced to pay more taxes this lady does a job that i could have done at the age of 12 and she is a hero with courage and ambition FML |
| 11/25/12 11:55 PM | |
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karasu
Member Since: 12/30/04 Posts: 15794 |
aritwo - i spend my whole life studying to be a doctor, a job that < .33% of america can do who said you were a villain? What does your "awesomeness" have to do with this lady trying to make things better for people who can't be as "awesome" as you? |
| 11/27/12 9:00 AM | |
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gregbrady
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Member Since: 1/9/02 Posts: 24639 |
aritwo - i spend my whole life studying to be a doctor, a job that < .33% of america can do don't worry with your reading comprehension you'll probably be a general practitioner. No one is raising taxes on ppl making 130k a year |
| 11/27/12 9:12 AM | |
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Random Moniker
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Member Since: 10/3/11 Posts: 1056 |
aritwo - i spend my whole life studying to be a doctor, a job that < .33% of america can do What's the prognosis for your victim complex? |
| 11/27/12 9:16 AM | |
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StevetheWeasel
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 14590 |
aritwo - i spend my whole life studying to be a doctor, a job that < .33% of america can do LOL. You do nothing of the sort. |
| 11/27/12 9:19 AM | |
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aritwo
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Member Since: 12/23/11 Posts: 791 |
gregbrady -aritwo - i spend my whole life studying to be a doctor, a job that < .33% of america can do by the time i start practicing, liberals would have added all the 100k+ people as well so i'll never be safe |
| 11/27/12 9:23 AM | |
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ksac
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Member Since: 11/22/06 Posts: 7350 |
If you're so worried, just become a cake decorator. Jesus fucking christ. |
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