Should Wal-Mart be unionized to help give their workers a better wage?
No. The retail chain's assets should be nationalized and subject to direct workers' ownership and democratic management.
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Should Wal-Mart be unionized to help give their workers a better wage?
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After carefully and comprehensively accounting for other local determinants of changes in poverty, we find that the presence of Wal-Mart was unequivocally associated with smaller reductions in family-poverty rates in U.S. counties during the 1990s relative to places that had no stores. This was true not only in terms of existing stores in a county in 1987, but also an independent outcome of new stores built between 1987 and 1998.
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the evidence against finding adverse effects of Wal-Mart stores. We address the endogeneity problem using a natural instrumental variables approach that arises from the geographic and time pattern of the opening of Wal-Mart stores, which slowly spread out from the first stores in Arkansas. The employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying that each Wal-Mart worker replaces approximately 1.4 retail workers. This represents a 2.7 percent reduction in average retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings of about $1.4 million, or 1.5 percent. Of course, these effects occurred against a backdrop of rising retail employment, and only imply lower retail employment growth than would have occurred absent the effects of Wal-Mart.
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Should Wal-Mart be unionized to help give their workers a better wage?
Should Wal-Mart be unionized to help give their workers a better wage?
No... instead, Walmart should be banned from areas where it will do immense damage to the local culture and economy.
Vancouver did this in the 90's, saving all of its independent businesses in the process.
Walmart is a machine that doesn't care about human beings. Having a union is the last thing that will happen.
No... instead, Walmart should be banned from areas where it will do immense damage to the local culture and economy. Vancouver did this in the 90's, saving all of its independent businesses in the process.
Stores can't care about human beings because, you know, they aren't sentient....
People choose to work there, people choose to buy from there. It's not some sort of mafia.
People choose to work there, people choose to buy from there. It's not some sort of mafia.
If people really hated it so much in those areas where it somehow does damage, they'd boycott it.
That is terrible. Stores should not need permission from the government to exist.
Stores can't care about human beings because, you know, they aren't sentient....
No... instead, Walmart should be banned from areas where it will do immense damage to the local culture and economy. Vancouver did this in the 90's, saving all of its independent businesses in the process.
Please, tell me what you mean.
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