Based on story by Laura Clawson at Daily KOS ..(click image for her full text)
Walmart workers are forced to rely on government assistance to make ends meet. But PR is all … Walmart is totally concerned for its “associates” .. expressing their sincerity like China’s corporate/state overlords or perhaps like former slave masters after Jim Crow.
Last year an Ohio Walmart got a lot of bad publicity for this sort of thing. This year the holiday drive comes form Oklahoma, the management expressing concern by holding a canned food drive for its own workers.
Certainly the company hasn’t raised wages for its workers, even though multiple analyses have found that Walmart could pay workers as much as $14.89 an hour without raising prices substantially or even necessarily at all.
As Cincinnati, Ohio, Walmart worker La’Randa Jackson says, “My co-workers and I don’t want food bins. We want Walmart and the Waltons to improve pay and hours so that we can buy our own groceries.”