the company has turned to hiring mostly temporary workers (those who must reapply for a job every 180 days) to staff their stores while cutting full-time employees’ hours down to part-time status in order to avoid providing workers with healthcare benefits.
I knew about the 'temp' workers.. I didn't realize that meant they had to re-apply every 180 days..
It's my opinion that the downfall of this country.. what actually took us away from 'remember when...' was Walmart. They killed off the 'one on one' customer service and the 'mom and pop' type stores..They came into towns killing off the 'hometown' stores offering cheap goods,low prices and handing out low wages.Telling the communities they were coming into
"The plant may have closed, but we'll bring jobs back to this town" ... and the blue-collar union worker whose job just went overseas had no choice but to take the barely minimum wage job....This 'model' lasted for what? 20 years? But eventually you get what we've got now..the number one employer in the country working people who can't make enough money to feed themselves..
people think that when you're in a job like that you can just quit and go get another one.. HA! What they don't get is that it's a double-edged sword. You don't make enough to support yourself AND you don't make enough to leave and find something else. This job will pay you
something on Friday.. unless a better job just falls in your lap on Monday? Well, you have to eat.. so you keep the shitty job.. all the while getting further and further behind because they just don't pay you enough.. You're too poor from working there, but you're also too poor to quit because the shit job you have doesn't pay you enough.
This went on for years and years and years.. killing off the 'mom and pop' places, killing off the idea of 'pride' in your work and your company.. If you want to look at where the downfall of 'the good old days' started, I'd say look to when Wal-mart started gaining in popularity..
good article Paddy... I especially like how it pointed out that wal-mart hires people to teach their employes how to get food stamps and medicaid.. oh yes, you read that right, to get their
employees.. food stamps and medicaid.. so right off the bat they know they aren't giving their people livable wages AND instead of giving them a livable wage, they're making us, the US tax-payer, pay for their employee benefit package.. all the while they are banking billions in profit each year..
That little tid-bit should be in the "A-block" of each and every news story across the country for the next week.. allowing this shit to constantly go on, unnoticed, has got to stop..
