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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOutrageous! Wisconsin publication lists names of state's biggest "welfare queens".
http://bloggingblue.com/2014/03/wisconsins-biggest-welfare-queens/Conservatives just love to throw out the phrase welfare queens as an attempt to stereotype recipients of public benefits, but heres an interesting fact:
Wisconsins biggest welfare queens are actually some of Wisconsins biggest businesses, as noted by the states own BadgerCare enrollment data. Heres a list of the top 5 employers with the most employees/dependents receiving BadgerCare benefits.
Walmart
McDonalds
Aurora
Menards
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jmowreader
(50,561 posts)Http://www.aurorahealthcare.com
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Full Disclosure: Former Employee.
They (and other healthcare providers) hire a lot of part-time employees, such as nurses who are mostly stay-at-home moms who work maybe one shift a week. A lot of them would like to be fulltime if something comes up, so in the meantime that might mean one a shift at Aurora, another shift somewhere else (like Froedert).
Aurora does provide health care if you work 40 hours or more in a two-week pay period (essentially half-time), but as the figures show, it employs a host of workers who work less than 20 hours per week.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Preferably 'farmers' that also happen to be in Congress.
Viking12
(6,012 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)ybbor
(1,554 posts)I've never been to one but would love to know why I shouldn't go in the first place.
BodieTown
(147 posts)Menards: member of Koch's Million Dollar Club?
Menards: Big-time supporter of Scott Walker.
Menards: Somebody I know tried to work in one store for all of one week. She said it had an authoritarian environment for workers, and a place that had so many new employees coming and leaving that she couldn't keep track of who even worked there. She walked out after one week on a desperately needed job.
Viking12
(6,012 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)for PERSONALLY taking home treated lumber scraps & burning them in his trash barrel. The EPA fined him big-time as a repeater.
And he is known to wander around in his stores trying to get the employees to badmouth the company, at which point he fires them on th spot with great drama.
And there's this:
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/06/20/murphys-law-the-strange-life-of-john-menard/
Murphys Law
The Strange Life of John Menard
A lurid legal suit against him is the latest chapter in the retail billionaires bizarre life.
By Bruce Murphy - Jun 20th, 2013 01:22 pm
Menards. Photo by Mike Kalasnik.
Rarely have I read a legal case with more titillating details than the one filed against 73-year-old John Menard, whom Forbes magazine calls the 56th richest American, with a net worth of $7 billion. The suit accuses the retail chain owner based in Eau Claire of intentional inflection of emotional distress, battery, attempted battery, assault, attempted assault against Tomisue Hilbert, the wife of Stephen Hilbert, a longtime business associate of Menards.
On multiple occasions, the suit claims, Mr. Menard touched Mrs. Hilbert and demanded both directly and indirectly, that Mrs Hilbert engage in sexual activities with him and his spouse. Menard warned there would be severe financial consequences if Tomisue (pronounced Tommy Sue) refused him, the suit contends, and some time after this, Menard made good on his threats and began an orchestrated campaign to cause severe financial consequences against Mrs. Hilbert.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)You are, or at least were, not allowed to work at Menards if you're a do-it-yourselfer. They're afraid employees will steal the merchandise for their own projects.
NJCher
(35,690 posts)Had a carpenter who used to take treated wood scraps home and he burned them in his furnace.
At a relatively young age, early 50s, both he and his wife came down with numerous mysterious illnesses. Later she died of cancer; I don't know his condition at present.
Cher
ybbor
(1,554 posts)I will now share with all I know. I hate big box stores so I would have never visited one anyway, but now I have ammo to continue to push for supporting my local hardware store (Stadium Hardware in Ann Arbor, I end up spending an extra 15-30 minutes BSing every visit) and lumber yard (Fingerlee Lumber also in Ann Arbor). Both places have full time employees who are extremely knowledgable and they have full benefits and 401k's. Check them out if in the area. You will not be disappointed.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)that is called corruption...they are corruption queens.
tea and oranges
(396 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)What? It's not working. The incentives must not be big enough. Better give them more money!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)a turd by any other name smells the same.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)niyad
(113,463 posts)Old Codger
(4,205 posts)Did Walker come in at????
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Their bubble is far more precious to them then real life.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)It's big business that sucks the government teat for all it's worth? Well, slap my side and call me late for dinner. . .who woulda thunk?
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)so poorly.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)and 500 dollars, in addition to a separate exorbitant ER facilities fee, to see an ER doctor... they have the temerity to underpay their employees while living off the government teat? PAY YOUR BILLS, FUCKERS!