Wal-Mart sees protests at Mexican stores

I've been waiting 20 years for this one. You ain't seen nothin' yet!

The Great Mexican Labor Revolt

It looms ugly on the horizon.

My key points:

Big retail is VERY soft money...GET OUT!

Mexican labor is going to begin DEMANDING wages and benefits equal to their North American peers...be on notice.

And my personal ideology... let's get rid of that southern border and make Mexico #51. We'll all be better for it in the long run.

Gary

And these big companies just thought they would save money by being able to pay lower wages in other countries! LOL How's that working for ya Wal-Mart or even GM for that matter!

And Walmart has the choice to load up the trucks and leave their stores south of the border empty, taking those nasty jobs and inexpensive goods they attempted to provide with them.

There is no freedom of choice once you've been employed by Wal-Mart. The only jobs available for non-slaried workers are even beneath a Wal Mart retail position in status (almost impossible to feel any lower) and pay.

So E.Castro-Wright thought he turned his Wal-Mex stores around?(w/ the locals) And to think he's being groomed for a higher calling in Bentonville >WMT changes on a 2yr. timetable not 6-10. Hope his english improves.

This is yet another of Lopez Obrador's baseless allegations against corporate Mexico, which, yes, was largely opposed to him. Wal-mart has flourished in Mexico by putting the boots to some really lazy competitors and thus is now the country's largest private-sector employer.

Urging employees to vote is something new here. Previously, unions did that - and the long-ruling PRI was the recipient of the support. It's how the PRI stayed in power. Bucking the union brought serious concequences. Somewhat ironically, people have accused Lopez Obrador of reviving the PRI corporatists practices, including cozying up to not-so-modern unions.

I started a thread on a Google newsgroup that some of you might find interesting. It did morph from Wal*Mart to EDS, but I think the general opinions of various medical transcriptionists come through clearly before then. I hope this link below comes through okay.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.transcription/browse_thread/thread/c9d9c177f0ddc43a/3209565afa37efca?lnk=raot&hl=en#3209565afa37efca

Judity

What upsets me most about this whole thing is that so many Mexicans want to come to the U.S. for better jobs and homes and schools. They want what US citizens have. Okay, great. Much of the world wants what we have, freedom. BUT when we give them a piece of it, in the form of jobs, they attempt to destroy it. It is much like the illegal Mexicans living on US soil. They escape for a better life, ILLEGALLY and end up destroying the very thing they came here for by continuing to live in the country illegally, committing crimes to survive, trying to take from our society and trying to make the U.S. fit them and look like the country they escaped from.
This Walmart episode in Mexico is just an example of that. Instead of tearing up the store to protest, do it by protesting in front of the store, quit the company (however, may would quit and others longing for better jobs than they have would take those jobs).
I think they don't really want better jobs, they just want hand outs. But in way, it's our fault as a nation. That is what we have given them for decades, crossing the border to "help" them (do it for them), allowing the illegals to find the loop holes to beat our system. Instead of teaching them to fish, we've just given them the fish.