So at the beginning of last year Walmart apparently raised their minimum wage to $10/hr

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I just discovered this and I was curious how conservatives reacted to that. I find it interesting that so many of them (at freerepublic) seemed angry that a private company would give wage increases on their own. It reminded me of the odd reaction they had to the CEO of Gravity Payments making his company's minimum wage $70k/yr. It's not about government control over setting minimum wages, they just want to keep wages low even if it's the company making the decision to increase the wages. It's even more odd when it's just regular people pushing that line of thought. I wonder how many of them turned down raises for the same reasons they think people who work at Walmart should continue to do the same labor for less value (inflation)

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Okay,Wal Mart

laid off how many thousands in Springdale in order to make the numbers work?

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2. Not sure. Do you have those numbers?

I'm hoping you're not in agreement with the conservatives who think wages shouldn't be increased, but instead are bothered that $10/hr still isn't enough. I can understand the latter argument, but not so much the former.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. They also cut people's hours to make their goals n/t

[Egnever]

6. So?

It's somehow better if they are employing more people at poverty wages than it is for them to pay a better wage to fewer people?

I don't get that line of reasoning... It's ok they pay poverty wages because they employ so many people...That is just as silly as keeping coal mines open because people will lose their jobs.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. The jobs at their Corporate HQ were paid

at a rate greater that the new rate at the Retail. Believe the HQ number is in the 15 hundred range.

Nice to see a better pay rate for everyone.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Bentonville is world HQ for them. Laid off 700 since January.

Plus they are cutting 7,000 in store accounting/invoicing positions.

[Yavin4]

5. In order to feel good about their miserable lives, they need to see other people suffer.

This trait was how rich Southern plantation owners got poor Southern Whites to fight and die for them in the Civil War.

[Kimchijeon]

7. Pretty telling, they don't want feds to require a living wage, and also

they hate it if businesses pay workers a little more. They only want the workers to suffer/be punished. Nasty, nasty way to view the world. I just don't see how people can be so horrible to one another.