{"id":186685,"date":"2013-11-18T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/18\/how-about-fing-paying-your-employees-a-fing-decent-wage-instead\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T01:39:00","slug":"how-about-fing-paying-your-employees-a-fing-decent-wage-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/18\/how-about-fing-paying-your-employees-a-fing-decent-wage-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"How About F%$#ing Paying Your Employees a F%$#ing Decent Wage Instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4wgRLc5.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>Walmart just <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/business_impact\/print.html?entry=\/2013\/11\/is_walmarts_request_of_associa.html\">held a food drive for its own employees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The storage containers are attractively displayed at the Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton. The bins are lined up in alternating colors of purple and orange. Some sit on tables covered with golden yellow tablecloths. Others peer out from under the tables.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">This isn&#8217;t a merchandise display. It&#8217;s a food drive &#8211; not for the community, but for needy workers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,&#8221; read signs affixed to the tablecloths.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The food drive tables are tucked away in an employees-only area. They are another element in the backdrop of the public debate about salaries for cashiers, stock clerks and other low-wage positions at Walmart, as workers in Cincinnati and Dayton are scheduled to go on strike Monday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Is the food drive proof the retailer pays so little that many employees can&#8217;t afford Thanksgiving dinner?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Norma Mills of Canton, who lives near the store, saw the photo circulating showing the food drive bins, and felt both &#8220;outrage&#8221; and &#8220;anger.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Then I went through the emotion of compassion for the employees, working for the largest food chain in America, making low wages, and who can&#8217;t afford to provide their families with a good Thanksgiving holiday,&#8221; said Mills, an organizer with Stand Up for Ohio, which is active in foreclosure issues in Canton. &#8220;That Walmart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers &#8212; to me, it is a moral outrage.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you think?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t shop Walmart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart just held a food drive for its own employees: The storage containers are attractively displayed at the Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton. The bins are lined up in alternating colors of purple and orange. Some sit on tables covered with golden yellow tablecloths. Others peer out from under the tables. 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