If Walmart Raises Health Care Premiums For Its Full Time Workers...
Is it any surprise that part time workers working less than 30 hours per week usually don't get paid health care from their employers and in Walmart's case will be losing whatever coverage they were receiving from their employer.
Shopping at Walmart is the exception rather than the rule for me. I have bought a couple of pairs of cheap gym shoes at the store during the last year and took advantage of a sale on toilet paper as I walked through the store.
Management is trying to boost profits because sales are flat for the company. Lowering employee costs may boost profits for share holders in general and for the Walton Family that inherited stock from their father.
It has been widely reported that the low wages paid employees qualifies those employees for food stamps and now the medicaid program or possibly coverage under the ACA. This practice is not unheard of in the retail sector and to argue that Walmart, Target, Amazon and just about everybody else that sells stuff to the public feels price and service pressures to do things cheaper and faster justifies screwing with employees seems wrong. Especially, when in the next breath the same employers bitch about the government programs that keep the working class poor afloat.
If folks incomes don't keep up with stuff, they have less money to buy stuff and eventually they buy less stuff. The race to the bottom ironically started in Arkansas one of the poorest states in the nation back then. The latest figures show Arkansas with a per capita income of $30,060 is ranked 48th of the 50 states and in keen competition with West Virginia, and Mississippi.
Shopping at Walmart is the exception rather than the rule for me. I have bought a couple of pairs of cheap gym shoes at the store during the last year and took advantage of a sale on toilet paper as I walked through the store.
Management is trying to boost profits because sales are flat for the company. Lowering employee costs may boost profits for share holders in general and for the Walton Family that inherited stock from their father.
It has been widely reported that the low wages paid employees qualifies those employees for food stamps and now the medicaid program or possibly coverage under the ACA. This practice is not unheard of in the retail sector and to argue that Walmart, Target, Amazon and just about everybody else that sells stuff to the public feels price and service pressures to do things cheaper and faster justifies screwing with employees seems wrong. Especially, when in the next breath the same employers bitch about the government programs that keep the working class poor afloat.
If folks incomes don't keep up with stuff, they have less money to buy stuff and eventually they buy less stuff. The race to the bottom ironically started in Arkansas one of the poorest states in the nation back then. The latest figures show Arkansas with a per capita income of $30,060 is ranked 48th of the 50 states and in keen competition with West Virginia, and Mississippi.
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