Nants Foley: “I support anyone’s right to protest peacefully. I personally boycott Black Friday!”
Marty Richman: “I certainly support their right to protest, it’s still a free country even though some of the ‘protesters’ are being paid to be there. If the worker’s wages were raised Wal-Mart would not pay for it, the customers would, Wal-Mart can’t print money. The cost to the customer would be the raise in wages, the additional Social Security and Medicare taxes, unemployment insurances, retirement contributions, and Worker’s Comp, to name a few. Therefore, it would probably be more realistic to protest at the customers’ homes and convince them to stop demanding those low prices. Oh, it’s true that Wal-Mart’s CEO made $22 million, but Wal-Mart serves more than 100 million people a week and has a workforce of 2.2 million. If you took all compensation from the CEO and gave it to the other employees they would each get a $10 a year raise – somehow, I don’t think that is what they have in mind.”
Jim West: “Yes, Wal-Mart is a private, for profit company and its employees have every right to protest wages, strike or walk off the job, those jobs do NOT impact the health, safety or welfare of the general public.”
Ruth Erickson: “This would set a precedent for all part-time workers in all businesses.”
Mary Zanger: “Yes. Double that $8.81/hour wage. Give those workers a 40-hour workweek. Give them healthcare benefits. Now look at what happens. Workers exit Medical. Workers buy enough food to be healthy. Sales of food, clothes, furniture, appliances and cars boost the economy. Inventories decrease. Employment increases. Workers become taxpayers. Now we have a win-win situation.”
