• Sanders to introduce bill to force Walmart to pay $15 minimum wage
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/sanders-to-introduce-bill-to-force-walmart-to-pay-15-minimum-wage https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1062492456950947840 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will introduce legislation Thursday with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., intended to force Walmart to pay workers at least $15 an hour. The bill would institute fines for corporations that buy back their own stock unless they set their workers' base pay at that level. The legislation will be named the Stop Walmart Act, CNN reported Wednesday.
Honestly, here's how it should work: Don't give all your employees medical benefits? Then you pay extra Medicare/Medicaid taxes to make up for it. Don't give them a living wage? Then you pay extra to social security, welfare, WIC, etc., to make up for it. Y'know, seeing as their attitude towards "our employees are underpaid" is "well they can sign up for government programs". Fuck that noise. If you're not willing to take care of the people who even make your business possible, then why should you even stay in business to begin with?
Sanders to introduce his grabby hands
Daily reminder not to let people convince you that the Republicans care more about the working class than Democrats. This is actually shit the Republicans could stand for. As it stands these companies are subsidizing the costs of labor by pushing the burden to the tax payer.
"Sanders to openly challenge gross wealth inequality of mega-corporations"
Is it okay to directly call out Walmart in the bill's name? Sounds like a potential lawsuit
The brilliance of the bill is all in the framing. Specifically targeting Walmart means the "but small businesses!" critique is irrelevant. And in the Amazon bill from a few months back, reducing welfare costs by paying their workers is something people on the right should be for because it reduces government spending.
Can you actually target specific organizations in legislation or is this bill going to target companies that have an overwhelming number of employees on government programs?
The Supreme Court has confirmed it's okay for Congress to make a law that affects one specific case to benefit one side in that case, while the case is ongoing, maybe it's the same here.
I don't think cashiers should be making that much but that's just imo. Maybe during the holidays sure, but just normal, bagging, and ringing up stuff? Nah. All this will do is make Walmart and Sam's Club move more into self check out. Over half of my Sam's club registers are self check out now.
This is an important step in the directions for workers rights, which I feel like have been eroding for the past couple of decades here in the US.
The last time i was at my local Wal-Mart they had a newly installed bank of self-checkout machines and right above it was a banner bragging about investing in American jobs. I wish I had gotten a picture.
Every full time job should be paying enough for someone to actually live off that wage. If $15 is what it takes to lift someone out of poverty, that makes sense to be a minimum wage for a full time employee. If you're being paid $15/h in a skilled job like engineering or whatever you're being fucking scammed lmao. Don't complain because your boss is paying you shit, demand better and fairer treatment as a workforce.
The law should hit every major corporation, not a be a threat against a singular company. Proper legislation would be mandatory full time positions with benefits that exceed the minimum wage(which needs to be permanently tied to inflation) after 3 to 5 cumulative years. Not in one sitting, cumulative. Why? Because companies like Amazon will strategically fire and rehire workers to avoid giving them three full time. In addition, Union dues should come out of the company, not out workers paychecks or alternatively, should be reimbursed in full as a tax cut for pow and middle class jobs.
I think everyone should be able to get a living wage regardless of where they end up in life. And that includes WM cashiers. Besides, cashiers....front-end staff in general...have the hardest job of anyone in the damn store. They're the face of the store. Stockers can fuck off into the backroom and general don't need to directly interact with customers to do our jobs(In fact most don't, I sure didn't when I worked at HellMart), but the front-end staff must. And customers are the worst, they'll belittle and berate you over inconsequential things and have the biggest sense of entitlement humanity can offer.
it's to stop companies from buying back stock unless they pay employees $15/h, Walmart just happens to be the biggest company involved with buying back stock after Trump's tax cut
I absolutely love when people retaliate to "minimum wage workers should be paid $15/hr" with "I work a trained job and I only make $15! No way a burger-flipper should be paid as much as me!" It is just so fucking myopic it's unbelievable. Instead of thinking of it as "Why should a burger-flipper be paid as much me?" they should be thinking of it as "Why aren't I getting paid more?" But, of course, it's in Corporate's best interest to get the labor pool infighting amongst themselves. If everyone is too busy thinking "you're getting paid too much!" and are clawing at each other's throats, then they won't stop to realize it should actually be "I'm getting paid too little!" and instead start clawing at their bosses' throats. Corporate culture disgusts me.
man looks like he was recently resurrected and is in need of brain
MYEHHHHGH...LIVABLE WAGES!
Most Republicans I've spoken to about the topic seem to have this mindset of "But it's MY MONEY! REEEEE!" Like yeah, I get that you're afraid of becoming your own super-huge mega-business like Wal-Mart because that means the dang'd ol' gub'ment's gonna tax you a shit-load, but if you're making that much fucking money and you're not the least bit interested in spreading the cheddar with the people who, if not for them, you would literally have to do everything by yourself (good luck when you have stores nation-wide), then you're honestly a bit of a prick. People with this attitude are basically An-cap-Lite, all the annoyance and near-sightedness/selfishness included.
As a Sam's Club employee, I can say that Wal-Mart is already preparing for this. We just got new cash registers, which we are knocking it down from around 12 lines and 5 self check kouts to 6 lines and around 10 self checkouts. On top of that they have been pushing hard on their Scan & Go app, which allows for customers to scan items and pay with their phones.
Self-checkout is suboptimal anyway, takes more time per customer (who would have thought that customers would be less efficient at doing something that cashiers do all day long?) and needs an employee to oversee it anyway because half the stations are always either used by customers who have no clue how their work or straight up disfunctional.
I haven't noticed this in Estonia at least. People got used to self-checkouts very quickly. For someone like me, it definitely is more convenient.
Self-checkouts work really well here in sweden aswell, usually like 10 stations manned by 1-2 employees in a bigger store. Most stores use self-scanning which is more fool proof I guess.
Self-checkouts tend to take a lot longer for people who aren't used to how it works. This usually includes older people. But I remember back when they first came out and nobody would touch them, I could get in and out of Wal-Mart in 15 minutes. That being said, my mom's not a fan because they charge her just as much to check out her own groceries.
Okay, we'll increase the minimum wage to 15$/hr, but we're cutting other employee benefits. We're also going to focus on automation, because getting a technician to look at something every so often is much cheaper then the wage increase which you are forcing us to do.
It already happened with Amazon. You need to punish removing benefits and all that shit too.
Which I'm still against. Hope you like automation and an even smaller job pool for the minimum-wage!
Because automation is only increasing because of the threat of a living wage.
So you'd rather nobody on minimum wage earn enough to actually live to begin with? Why don't you argue for the outright removal of minimum wage if that's what you want? Unemployment would be nonexistent after all, heaven on earth.
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