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eridani

(51,907 posts) Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:07 AM Jun 2014

Walmart Workers Capture What It’s Like Being In Their Shoes. It’s Heartbreaking.

http://www.upworthy.com/walmart-workers-capture-what-its-like-being-in-their-shoes-its-heartbreaking?c=upw1

At Walmart it's a choice between paying our rent or getting our car fixed to get to work.

Not having enough hours makes it hard to survive.

In 37 years my husband and I have never been able to take a vacation.

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Walmart Workers Capture What It’s Like Being In Their Shoes. It’s Heartbreaking. (Original Post) eridani Jun 2014 OP

Remember the Walmart commercial that tried to convince us merrily Jun 2014 #1

K&R...and taxcpayers pick up the tab...eom doxydad Jun 2014 #2

k&r for labor. n/t Laelth Jun 2014 #3

Get over it TACFIRE13 Jun 2014 #4

And it's our (Progressive Democrats) job to call Walmart out on it!!!!! nt wolfie001 Jun 2014 #5

merrily

(45,251 posts)

1. Remember the Walmart commercial that tried to convince us

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:18 AM

Jun 2014

that the real Walmart is about upward mobility for its workers? I almost put my fist through the screen.

I'd rather shop almost anywhere else. A hit to its bottom line is all that WalMart is going to understand. Well, that and a strong, organized work force.

Democrats nominating a former WalMart member for POTUS is not going to help, either.

And please spare me the rationalization that the former Goldwater Girl and the then wife of the Governor of Arkansas with a law degree from a prestigious school and experience working for both of the largest political parties in the US had no other options all the way back--in 1986 to 1992--other than sitting on the WalMart board because she was a woman back in the day.

Not easy to listen to on YouTube, but her voice was a lot stronger in 1931, when, at age 12, she wrote that song and made it a unionizing anthem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Reece