YES! They need to stand up to their corporate oligarchs.
55%
YES! But Walmart will just replace them with temps.
45%
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The time has come for workers to stand up and protest. 40 years of slowly bleeding out the middle class must end.
It's time for all retail workers to protest slave wages. During the Christmas holidays most retail workers work like dogs....and most do so without a bonus. They work twice as hard but do not reap "anything" from it. The only way it will change is through an organized movement. Who is going to organize such a movement? The retail workers are too busy working, and no one else cares anything about them.
Well, isn't this an interesting ballot! You can only vote "Yes!" Thom, whassup widdat?
I vote No, they should work. There are SO MANY people that have to work on Thanksgiving—nurses, restaurant people, radio employees! etc. It's no big deal. Some people would rather be at WalMart working and getting fed a meal than being at home working their asses off making the meal and cleaning up after it, while others hang out and watch TV, or try to talk with boring relatives.
Plus some people LIKE to go shopping on the holiday or be able to get things they run out of. Or suppose your grandson from the other part end of the country is visiting and you want to buy him a toy he can take home with him and when he plays with it, he'll think of you.
You can go over the top with objecting to everything!! (Even when you are my hero.)
Okay, I'll say it here. You NEVER give any emphasis to Walmart's low prices. I like them. Even if the stuff is inferior, it gets you through. And even if they could take a lower percentage of the profit and be millionaires instead of billionaires.
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People, customers and workers, should have a day of NO SHOPPING. It is Thanksgiving, why not do something at home with your family instead of stressing out shopping or working. So you still need to shop for your dinner? Plan ahead. There was a time when most stores were closed after 9:00 PM, so in knowing that you shopped before that. Give everybody a break!