Wal Mart increases starting wage

[Brian37]

Walmart has no choice but increase wages.  They directly compete with all other poverty wage providers for labor..and some of -those- providers directly compete for market share with walmart.  Target is fucking with them on the big box front, and amazon is scaring the pants out of their fulfillment centers. The wage increases had absolutely nothing to do with the tax break, and the employees won't be seeing a dime of it.  They're pushing back against amazon with layoffs and closures in support of walmart direct shipping (of the 63 stores being closed up to ten will become walmart fulfillment centers), and back against target with higher box wages.  They've been doing this for years.  

-and then there's dollar general, crushing them like they were common obamas in rural america.  

The tax break is a windfall for investors and ceo bonuses, and that's exactly what it was designed to be by the lobbyists who wrote it.  Full stop.

Yep, the corporate lobbyists have excelled at this for decades. When they see that the workers are getting restless they throw them just enough crumbs to give them a false sense of security but it always ends up in debt down the road and the top still ends up getting richer.

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Agreed this is a short term fad .Hyper focusing one up (possible up) when a overarching problem remain is pissing in the wind . Till there is a universal system that ensure ALL workers have a living wage this is a drop in a puddle. And even that drop has fuck all to do with the tax plan even if walmarts sell it as if it was so they can get more tax breaks later.

The worst part is, even if you speak in cost terms like a business owner, even then they wont listen.

Any business owner will tell you they have to have a certain ratio where materials and labor don't exceed their profit margin, otherwise there is no point in being in business. Well, why the hell would a home/rent/family be any different. If you are spending more than you take in, you will always be operating at a loss. That is why cost of living has to be viewed as a ratio, but if all you do is say "fuck the workers" long term, that erodes a society. 

Workers need livable wages to stay caught up and to get ahead for the long term. Just like a business has to keep costs at a certain level. But, to their side, they think CEOs are more important than the workers that make their companies profitable, but without them, there would be no business at all.