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Walmart Store Holding Thanksgiving Charity Food Drive -- For Its Own Employees!



Recently, Yahoo’s 24/7 Wall Street column sought to identify the nation’s 10 worst paying employers, based on the methodology ultizied by the National Employment Law Project in its 2012 report, “Big Business, Corporate Profits, and the Minimum Wage.”

To the surprise of nobody, Walmart came out on top, achieving the distinction of being the worst paying company in America.

Still, when it comes to Walmart, there are certain analysts and observers who can’t seem to remove the blinders. They continue to insist that Walmart pays its workers an average of over $18.00 per hour when even the company acknowledges that the average full time, hourly rate is $12.83—and that number includes the salaries of some of the highest paid employees in the averaging such as the CEO who earned $20.7 million last year.

Maybe, at long last, the blinders will come off when these deniers are forced to come to grips with the fact that Walmart associates are paid so poorly that a store in Canton, Ohio, located in the northeastern part of the state, now holds an annual, Thanksgiving drive to collect canned foods for fellow Walmart employees in need.

Walmart spokesperson, Kory Lundberg, thinks this is all just the most wonderful thing—bragging that the drive to collect holiday food for fellow employees shows just how much Walmart employees care about one another.

Do you imagine the spokesperson has yet to realize just how remarkable her statement is?

Surely, those in need at the Canton, Ohio store are benefitting from the good will of some fellow workers who care enough to drop off a can of cranberry sauce to help make their co-workers’ holiday meal a bit nicer, even though they too suffer from earning too little to take care of their own families.

However, what about the other employees at Walmart—say, for example, CEO Mike Duke who could make this in-house charitable effort unnecessary by simply paying his employees a livable wage so that they might afford a decent Thanksgiving dinner on their own?

While spokesperson Lundberg seems to be feeling all ‘Christmassy' as a result of the good works company employees are performing when it comes to their own modern day Tiny Tim story, other employees at the Walmart store in question are not quite so cheery.

One employee, who did not wish to divulge her name for fear of being fired, found the food drive containers in her locker a few weeks ago upon arriving at work. The employee, who found the campaign “demoralizing” and “kind of depressing”, snapped photos of the containers which are now making their way around social media outlets as proof positive of just how bad Walmart’s indifference to their employees' living circumstances has become.

If what is happening at the Canton, Ohio store is insufficient proof that this company’s wages are too low, then there is clearly no measure or metric that could possibly serve to make the point.

Says Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell Univeristy’s school of labor, “That captures Wal-Mart right there. Wal-Mart is setting up bins because its employees don’t make enough to feed themselves and their families.”

Of course, the start of the holiday season will not be grim for everyone at Walmart as there will likely be ample goodies of bonus checks and stock options in the stockings of top employees at the company, as Walmart's net income rose to $17 billion last year.

If your idea of American capitalism is of the "bah humbug" variety, then I'm sure that this story will leave you saying, "They're damned lucky they have a job at all!" But for those Americans who still believe that free enterprise means that working hard at a job should be compensated with a livable wage, I hope you will let your feelings be known.

And if you happen to live in the Canton, Ohio area, drop by and make a contribution. The folks at Walmart who are helping you to pick out that nice turkey for your Thanksgiving family gathering will appreciate your helping to give them some happiness on that day as their own Ebenezer Scrooge of an employer won't be dropping by with a Christmas goose.

Contact Rick at thepolicypage@gmail.com and follow me on Twitter and Facebook.


 

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