3rd August 2004, 10:38 AM
Do you know that if the minimum wage had been kept up with inflation and not frozen in the '90s sometime, it'd be $7.50 now and not $5.15? And that's just keeping up with inflation...
Yes, no unions is one reason Wal-Mart is so cheap. But that isn't a good thing. Like buying from foreign companies that you have a pretty good idea are running with extremely unfair and cruel labor practices and not doing much about it because it means cheaper junk... Yes, a lot of stores do stuff like that. But Wal-Mart is the cheapest and the biggest so it matters most for them...
Yes, no unions is one reason Wal-Mart is so cheap. But that isn't a good thing. Like buying from foreign companies that you have a pretty good idea are running with extremely unfair and cruel labor practices and not doing much about it because it means cheaper junk... Yes, a lot of stores do stuff like that. But Wal-Mart is the cheapest and the biggest so it matters most for them...