[CaptainCrunch]

Bottom line in this day and age.

1) Not everyone is going to make huge salaries, thats a misnomer. As my sainted father said, some people are just going to be ditch diggers, and they're going to have to work their way out of it.

2) In this day and age, everyone knows what they're getting into when they get a job offer. When you talk about Walmart abusing or mistreating their employees, if thats based around pay, benefits and hours, they know about this when they get an offer of employment and they accept it. Walmarts not doing anything to their employees that their employees aren't or shouldn't be aware of. Plus last time I checked I didn't see leg shackles and overseers in the stores.

Walmart doesn't really care about retention of their lower end staff, they realize that retail positions in that kind of environment are transitional roles with these people moving on when they find something better.

The owners of walmart aren't answerable to their employees, they're answerable to their shareholders and their bottom line, and they've made it perfectly clear, they're not building a workers paradise.

3) It pisses me off that Unions foster a worker vs owner or management mentality. Its almost as if they're stating that the workers are more important then the people that actually have a stake in the company, or the people that make decisions that allow companies to grow and sustain their employment numbers.

In North America you have the right to negotiate your own salary and decide where you work and what you do for a living. While Unions might be invaluable in terms of work place health and safety and in limited equity roles, the rest of it is where they hammer companies into being non competitive and a prime example of that is subsidizing businesses to compete with non union equivalents.

Unions have their place outside of North America, but I don't see too many abusive racist enviroments in North America.