Love that video!

I'd guess that when they no longer have 5 million job applicants the issues will self-correct. The majority of the employees don't have issues with their employer and a union does not provide respect.

I don't know Bren - why don't you provide us with a definition of "family sustaining pay and benefits"?

What amount of consumption and possessions do you consider the baseline?

Cell phones, cable TV, Heated (and cooled) space - how many sq.ft/person and at what temperature differential? Modern plumbing - clean water at the tap - vehicle - MPG of said vehicle, gas price.

Something tells me that you don't really know - because you have never really thought about it. You just know that IT IS NEVER ENOUGH! GIVE ME MORE! GIVE ME CRADLE TO GRAVE SECURITY! It's quite amazing - quite literally.

People are going to have to learn to live simple, basic lifestyles - and be deprived of items they can't afford - it's happening now - and coming everyday to more and more people.

It's the PEAK OIL. Shhhh..... The Planet might be a tad bit heavy on the carrying capacity side, but don't worry - the coming fuel shortages will take care of that human population problem.

"Oil shortages will lead to a collapse of the global economy, and the decline of globalized industrial civilization. • Systemic collapse will evolve as a systemic crisis as the integrated infrastructure and economy of our global civilization breaks down.
• Most governments and societies – especially those that are developed and industrialized – will be unable to manage multiple simultaneous systemic crises. Consequently, systemic collapse will likely result in widespread confusion, fear, human security risks, and social break down. • Economies worldwide are already unraveling and becoming insolvent as the global economic system can no longer support itself without cheap and abundant energy resources. "

“[Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy,] knows all about peak oil, but he can't talk about it. If the government announced that peak oil was threatening our economy, Wall Street would crash. He just can't say anything about it.”

– David Fridley48, oil economist who worked under Steven Chu, 2009

“...if you spend some time looking at peak oil, if you’re a reasonably intelligent person, you see that catastrophic things are going to happen to the world. We’re talking about major damage, major change in our civilization. Chaos, economic disaster, wars, all kinds of things that are, as I say, very complicated,
non-linear. Really bad things. People don’t like to talk about bad things.”

– Robert Hirsch42, director of fusion research at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 2010

http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~mli/Economics%207004/Morrigan_2010_Energy_CC4.pdf

Would I lie to you?

where do you shop Bren? have you ever been to a WalMart?

Actually, Bren, they don't. Have you ever looked at their profit margin? Have you ever looked at their cost of wages/salaries?

A 10% raise across the board would wipe out all profit.

So, in other words, you don't believe in profit. Thank you for being honest here.

@Greg - Randy Bryce is an iron worker. He recently ran against Melissa Lemke in the Democratic primary for the 62nd Assembly District.

Thank you, it puts his actions/comments into context.

So there should be no such thing as an entry level position?

Please provide details of a wage/benefit package that would satisfy your post above.

Randy, just say it:

You believe the government should force every company that hires people to provide a living wage, whatever that might be. Even if it means raising prices.

@brian dey, since you and i the taxpayers are subsidizing the badger care that most walmart employees are getting! plus the food stamps that a lot of them qaulify for! you don't have a problem with that? but yet you whine like crazy over public workers who do much more skilled work to earn their pay. you make no sense brian, this is why you don't get elected to the svhool board

Jt, first of all. The school board has nothing to do with this topic. Weak.

Secondly, Brian has never said he didn't have a problem with badger are or food stamps, so your question is weird and disingenuous.

You acknowledge (albeit indirectly) that they get paid for much less skill, yet imply they should get paid enough to afford their own insurance or food. As though that's the standard for an employer. Says who? They pay what the employees are worth. No one here has disputed the facts given by the spokesman..... You've all conveniently ignored them.

Walmart contributes billions against the real cost of inflation by drive prices lower on almost everything. Furthermore, they provide a place to work for nearly anyone. Liberals have to come to the human reality that a person is paid for what their skill is worth.

And NO ONE has a right to force a business owner to pay more than the market dictates just so an iron worker can sleep better at night.

I guess you missed the boat. Maybe you should have attended a credibal college, taken some business courses and began your careear as a professional business man. Worked your way to the top and you could partake in the fruits of a successful corporation:)) Shame on success!!!

So the striking bakers had little or nothing to do with the closing of Hostess? The Teamsters even blame the bakers. The 12 unions involved had such a death grip on the company, its only real option was to close.
The greedy owners were giving 25% of the company, to the unions, as part of the contract settlement.

Of course, and according to me, I keep telling my wife that I'm 6' 2' tall, a head full of wavy blond hair, all muscles with no pot belly. But she's not as gullible as you. But then again she's not a union fanatic!