Author Topic: Anyone following the Walmart Unionization in Canada? (Read 5191 times)

NUKE · « **Reply #120 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:37:00 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Toad
Not really.

Anyone who can't see that there must be YIN and YANG in all things;

anyone who can't see that a man's time is the only thing of real value he will ever have in his life;

anyone who would call me "socialist" while he subsidizes Walmart;

anyone who thinks a man working two or three jobs for basic subsistence and family raising is a good, normal thing...

Nope, no words. Sorry.

Toad, nobody forces a person to work for them. It's pretty simple.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #121 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:37:16 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Toad
BTW, class.... isn't anyone going to tell me something like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire could NEVER happen now?

Because management cares so much for the workers and all?

C'mon.. puhleez...

OSHA is worse than unions...

NUKE · « **Reply #122 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:39:12 AM »

Toad has completley caught me off guard. Turns out he is just a socialist.

Urchin · « **Reply #123 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:39:40 AM »

No Nuke, but a man is pretty much "forced" to work if he wants to raise a family.

Anyone want to do a little research on how much "real" wages have declined over the past thirty years, and maybe link that to skyrocketing divorce rates and the social decay that has Republicans up in arms?

Tough to be a good father when you are at work more then you are at home, and mom has to work too.

Urchin · « **Reply #124 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:40:17 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
OSHA is worse than unions...

Tell me the smiley means you are joking... right?

NUKE · « **Reply #125 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:40:48 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Urchin
No Nuke, but a man is pretty much "forced" to work if he wants to raise a family.

LOL!

Urchin · « **Reply #126 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:42:52 AM »

Actually, the above should have read "for somebody".

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #127 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:45:15 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Urchin
Tell me the smiley means you are joking... right?

I judge your sense of humor to be:

Excellennnnt!

Urchin · « **Reply #128 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:47:29 AM »

Lol, that is you in 30 years

And I don't have a sense of humor on the BBS.

Well, not in the O-club anyway.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #129 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:50:02 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Urchin
No Nuke, but a man is pretty much "forced" to work if he wants to raise a family.

Anyone want to do a little research on how much "real" wages have declined over the past thirty years, and maybe link that to skyrocketing divorce rates and the social decay that has Republicans up in arms?

Tough to be a good father when you are at work more then you are at home, and mom has to work too.

Welfare is responsible for a great deal of the divorces among the working class. A Welfare check effectively replaced the husband and his income because so many of the benefits wwent to mothers and children.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KXF/is_2002_June_17/ai_90305994

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #130 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:51:39 AM »

How is school going Urchin?

Toad · « **Reply #131 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:51:43 AM »

Didn't read the Walmart article did you Nuke?

You are subsidizing Walmart's workers. You like getting played for a sucker by a company whose income in 1998 was larger than the GNP of countries like Denmark and Norway?

You're proud of a company whose workers qualify for Food Stamps due to their low wages?

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #132 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:56:10 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by Toad
Didn't read the Walmart article did you Nuke?

You are subsidizing Walmart's workers. You like getting played for a sucker by a company whose income in 1998 was larger than the GNP of countries like Denmark and Norway?

You're proud of a company whose workers qualify for Food Stamps due to their low wages?

While I wont pretend that WalMarty is some great paying job I do wonder how those wage statistics work out when only Wal-Marts full time employees are counted. The reason I ask is because when im I'm there the workers are mostly either very old retiree types or young teeneagre kids and naturally neither group will pull in a full salary or likel'y needs it.

So an additinal question is then one of stategy, is anything wrong if WalMarts cost strategy is to seek out employees who are open to lower paying part time jobs?

Urchin · « **Reply #133 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:57:01 AM »

1 year left I think... got 8 classes I need to take after this semester is over.

Then I'll be armed with a freshly printed degree in Mathematics.

From there I haven't decided wtf I want to do.. g/f is already making plans for me though.

I've heard it is possible to go through grad school for free if you become a TA.. and as one of a relative handful of people with Math degrees that speak recognizable English I figure I'll be a marketable commodity there lol.

But I am going to look for internships this semester for the summer, and also look into some teaching programs, I know Maryland has programs that'll clear student debt as long as you teach for so many years, I've got to look into other states.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #134 on:** February 11, 2005, 12:58:40 AM »

Congrats. Do you have any specialty area in math?