Part-time at the Big Box

Part of the full-service blogging if I can keep this up:  I have a subscription to the New York Times.  Which mean I have "gift articles" that get you behind the pay wall.  I thought this -- from Adelle Waldman -- worthy of your time.

It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.
 

"So entrenched is the assumption that full-time work is on offer for most people who want it that even some Bureau of Labor Statistics data calculate annual earnings in various sectors by taking the hourly wage reported by participating employers and multiplying it by 2,080, the number of hours you’d work if you worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year."

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"The problem is that most Walmart employees don’t make $36,400, the annualized equivalent of $17.50 an hour at 40 hours a week. Last year, the median Walmart worker made 25 percent less than that, $27,326 — equivalent to an average of 30 hours a week. And that’s the median; many Walmart workers worked less than that."

And as we all remember (buried somewhere on this blog) is that Walmart workers are the #1 users of the low-cost State healthcare insurance for kids (in Georgia).  (Peachcare?)  And they'll take the money they (i.e. the Waltons that owned Walmart) stole from workers and put it towards little pet projects like The Goldwater Institute to take away your political power.

"The Goldwater Institute is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council. The organization has ties to the Koch family and the Walton Family Foundation."

(See how fast that works?  Research stuff so you can write a blog and in less than a week you're linking back to stuff you already wrote.)

It's a good editorial.  Stop reading me and go read it.

Don Brown
February 28, 2024