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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:25 PM Original message |
DISGUSTING!!! |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. FIGHTING for 35 cents an hour. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I literally jumped out of my chair...this is FUCKING CRIMINAL! FUCK YOU WAL-MART! n/t |
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Maraya1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Jumping in to post this link: |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Fighting so hard for less than we pay for one postage stamp. They're being forceed to |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 08:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
33. 6 cents an hour in china |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bangla Desh is not India |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. Bangladesh is a separate country...not part of India |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. disgusting is too mild a word--criminal, obscene, horrifc, hateful. . . |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. It's on my Netflix queue. I don't want to watch it but I know I should. |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. yes, you should most definitely watch it. and, unless wal-mart is the ONLY reasonably close |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 07:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Kroger is another place I frequent but I know they are not much better. |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 09:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. krogers is, at least, union. and, at least at the ones here, there is a great deal of local produce |
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bighart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
5. Are the factories owned by Wal-Mart? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Wal-Mart doesn't own the factories, but is famous (notarious) |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. ::shakes head:: double the wage for workers and it adds a fucking penny to the cost? |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. You know, I was thinking about this yesterday... |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Hey - I'm assuming that the amount of the profit stays the same - |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
7. Where're all the folks telling us "but people can live on $0.11 an hour in Bangladesh... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. May the workers |
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Lifelong Protester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. When will folks get the message |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Well if we bring those business back to this country |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Wal-Mart doesn't have to own the factory in order to get blame |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. I invite you to watch "the high cost of low price", and, also, to remind you that wal-mart IS an |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. There was a brief time when some retailers (Lands' End was one) |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. if I HAD money to put in a 401k, you better believe it would be one that is socially responsible. |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
18. I hope you didn't think the low wages paid were |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
21. This is what a "Flat World" looks like. |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I had an instructor that gushed over that book. |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
23. thanks for the informative topic, SL. n/t |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
25. The difference between 10 cents and 35 cents an hour might well be the |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 04:54 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. or being a human trafficking victim |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. But what do the Walmart executives care? nt |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 07:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. They get to put that sunshiny Price Buster sign on $8 tshirts. |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-07-10 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
35. God I hate that company. |
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