Reply #117: Walmart is bad, but, it has outpaced others [View All]

[Malva Zebrina]

wherever there is a Walmart there are numerous others hanging on to the same mall.

And they all pay the same to their workers

I think that the problem lies mainly with the lack of worker organsisations and the succesful obliteration of any ability of workers to unite and have a voice

That is the real problem

It is, I think, inevitable that large stores such as WM and others that hang on it's draw by opening their stores in the same location as WAlmart, will stock merchandise from all over the world and pay their workers, their salespeople, bubkus.

We are not living in the time when that practice of using foreign labor at it's patehtically low wages, will even itself out

But it is inevitable that it will, sooner or later

Having said that, I think the loss of worker unions, or effective worker lobbies and organisations, is a part of the problem

No ONE is going to give workers what they need and deserve untill those workers can unite as a force and demand it.

That is how, after all, we got for workers what we have today and what we have lost today also