The race to the bottom is finding bottom. There are just too many $10 an hour jobs in America:
CHICAGO—After three months of working in a Wal-Mart warehouse in the Chicago suburbs last fall, Robert Hines was fed up with getting paid much less than he had been promised by the company Reliable Staffing, which hired temporary workers to unload containers.
But the final straw came when he wasn’t paid at all for seven 10-12 hour days he’d worked shortly before Thanksgiving, he says. His calls to the agency weren’t returned, and when he went in person to demand his money, he said a manager claimed he and his work partner, Leo Williamson, had never worked those days at all. (Emphasis mine)
That someone has to file suit at all is a crime. The state of Illinois ought to be putting someone in the joint for this. That no one has been held accountable speaks volumes about how far the oligarchy has advanced. Wal-Mart outsourced the warehouse, demanding minimal costs; the contractors stole the money and didn’t pay the workers. That’s fraud, and if it’s legal then so is slavery.
At the very least, Wal-Mart ought to have intervened a long time ago. I mean, how are workers at the company’s contracted warehouses supposed to shop at Wal-Mart stores? When people ask what happened to the work ethic, their answer is the American workplace.
