--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any indication that their treatment of > workers is unusual for > retail? We do know that without Wal-marts, K-marts, > Targets, etc., lower > income people would have a much lower effective > standard of living. I'm > willing to change my mind if places like Abercrombie > and Fitch having high > prices only because their employees get such good > benefits.
I never cease to be amazed by supposedly educated people who have no clue how important the US Labor movement was. Not only did it play a huge role in the creation of a middle class so huge that we got the "diamond shaped society" (that the Bushies have vowed to destroy.) But it also was THE MAJOR FORCE THAT DEMANDED A POLICY OF VIGOROUSLY CONTAINING COMMUNISM, INSTEAD OF RETREATING INTO ISOLATIONISM. If you had such things anywhere on your horizons, you would be able to parse it simply. The chains that have union contracts pay living wages with basic benefits and decent conditions, lifting their workers out of poverty in fair recompense for a hard day's work. A decent minimum wage law and overtime protection also help. Even Henry Ford was smart enough to know that this HELPS business in the long run, creating consumers and letting the kids get super-educated. It diminisheds class war and gives all hope. And ALL of these things are in the Bushies' crosshairs. The flagrant way that goppers... and in this case CLINTON too!... gave Walton special treatment to break the law is a major scandal. Horrific. NOW PLEASE REMOVE BRIN: FROM THE SUBJECT LINE!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW PLEASE REMOVE BRIN: FROM THE SUBJECT LINE!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW PLEASE REMOVE BRIN: FROM THE SUBJECT LINE!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW PLEASE REMOVE BRIN: FROM THE SUBJECT LINE!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW PLEASE REMOVE BRIN: FROM THE SUBJECT LINE!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW PLEASE REMOVE BRIN: FROM THE SUBJECT LINE!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
