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James,
Walmart doesn't pay workers enough for them to afford Thanksgiving
dinner, so they're holding a food drives for their employees. Seriously.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Walmart stores in Ohio have
bins set up for underpaid associates to donate canned goods to other
underpaid associates.1
We have a better idea, Walmart: Pay your workers enough to put food on the table.
It's great that workers are looking out for one another, but nobody
who works for one of the richest companies in the world should have to
worry about not having enough to eat.
This is hardly the first time Walmart has asked for charity so they
can avoid paying employees enough to get by. Low-income workers still
need food, housing and healthcare, so taxpayers end up paying up to $1.7
million in public benefits per Walmart Superstore.2
We're proud to stand with the workers who think they should be able to afford their own Thanksgiving dinners.
In solidarity,
Alesa Mackool
SEIU
Sources:
1. Is Walmart's request of associates to help provide Thanksgiving dinner for co-workers proof of low wages?, The Plain Dealer, 11/18/13
2. Walmart holding canned food drive for its own underpaid employees, ThinkProgress, 11/18/13
It has ever been thus: Andrew Carnegie went fishing at his private estate in Scottland, leaving his henchman Frick to fight the steelworkers during the Homestead Strike. He couldn't give his workers decent wages, but he could leave his fortune to a foundation.
Shouldn't charity begin at home?
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