[lbo-talk] Walmart

[Michael Perelman]

This last weekend I participated in a forum on Wal-Mart.  A large number
of Wal-Mart workers showed up to vigorously defend their employer.  They
were obviously working-class people and not professional spokesman.

Several mentioned their salaries.  I responded that given their obvious
intelligence, they deserved a far better income.  Their answer was that
Wal-Mart was the only job that they could find.

Is the Chico behavior that common -- that Wal-Mart confined a retinue of
such devoted workers who would volunteer a Sunday afternoon to defend
their employer?

-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu