If the wages are poverty level, get a different job! If you want to work full-time and they won't give you the hours, get a different job! Its Wal-Mart folks, not rocket science.

I know people are going to say there are no jobs out there and you are correct, there are very few jobs out there. But why should Wal-Mart be forced to hire people at full-time if the company doesn't want to. Why should they be forced to pay skilled labor wages for unskilled labor jobs? Its simple economics.

Police officers, fire firefighters, other first responders, nurses, doctors and and so many others all have to work on thanksgiving. Should they all strike? I'm a cop and I'm working on Thursday, should I not show up. If you don't show up for work your a scumbag and should be fired. You want better pay. Here is a tip. Go to college, get a degree in something and get a higher paying job. That's how it's done. You work at Walmart not NASA. It's a great entry level job with entry level pay . I worked there. You all should happy you have jobs. Thank you in advance to the employees that work on Black Friday.

Have you seen some of the people who work at Walmart? Some are lucky to be making $9/hr. Not to mention, I see many high school kids working there. I would have loved to have made $9/hr when I was in hs. These people are ridiculous. Show up for work or get fired, its that simple. I am sure there are many people lining up to apply for the jobs that will be lost after turkey day.

Know what I do not hear in this discussion? How many billions of dollars Wal-Mart is going to make....now 3/4 of America complains about the low pay scales people get paid..Sure you all heard the ole " They just don't pay enough to care" ...each time you buy a broken item...and your exactly right..I have heard people from the time I was a kid able to understand words people saying "all of hese corporations making all of this money from hard working people with no consideration for the workers" Or the "I don't care I only make $9 and hour" well people are tired of saying this and tired of corporations bringing in imported cheap items that were made here in the U.S. being shipped from over seas made in some sweatshop somewhere and charging top and sometimes above top dollar for the items....Most well known items in the world were made here in the U.S. first and found it was cheaper to take the shop overseas...well then it's time for companies who do this for maximum dollar to pay their workers...as rent,gas,food,utilities,all continue to rise there has to be a pay scale to at least match it..and even then you just exist..you have no extra money to help boost the economy...

@Russ

Well said.

Russ you hit it on the head. Our military make 1/3 what these police make. And what risk is out here in the burbs. When was the last Police line of duty death in oswego or surrounding communities. I see solidiers dying from the surrounding communities.

And for the comments about what employees look like that work at Walmart, or go get a different job. Are you people for real. People are doing what they can to make ends meet. To feed families and cloth their children. And because they have to pay high taxes to live in this community, working at Walmart is better than working at all.

@Jon

Your comment shows the false equivalency people use to try and equate similar items, but in any case, if your job is so bad, why don't you quit and take a job at awl-Mart and feed your family, if you are married, on $19,000 a year without benefits ?

@Erica & Lucy

Apparently you have no idea of the job situation that most people face today, and I would guess that you are married and either work a second job or no job at all. Picture this, if you are married and have children and say your husband loses his job and insurance coverage, and has to take a job at Wal-Mart because there are no other higher paying jobs available, would you still have the same disdain for honest working people at Wal-Mart, many through no fault of their own and have to work at a low paying job such as they do, to bring in some sort of money to feed their families ?
I think not. Until you become one of those people, thank whatever God you believe in that it is not you.

I think people are missing the point here. Walmart is paying people low wages, keeping them at low hours in turn keeping them on our welfare system. Walmart is truly hurting America. I was in the service at least we had medical benefits, housing, and a meal. We also have training and education benefits.

Workers have a unalienable right to organize. Something that Walmart doesn't recognize and will eventually pay for.

Wages can be a great motivator for young people.

Make daily decisions consistent with career goals and earning potential.

people say down with the unions..but in the end when you stand up for your rights together you are called a union..now what is just amazing to me is the fact that one of peoples main arguement is that " I aint paying no dues" but turn around and go sign up for the first temporary company that will hire them..Not realizing that You are paying more to the temp service than you would Unions...and you have no rights to insuraance...In Michigan there is a company..know what there subsidary company is?...A temp service...Yep..A company uses its own temp service,collects their workers money to let them work and offer no insurance because you know your working through a temp service...lolbut hey unions are bad right? lmao...

The discussion in America today is: What do we want our society to be? Are we of the commons, rugged individualists? Is this a country of, by for the people? the corporations? Wall St? Banking? Do we, should we care about our fellow man? that scumbag who works at Walmart? Our neighbor 3 doors down who had a heart attack but doesn't have insurance? Do we care? Should the concept of insurance exist in health care - for that neighbor, for me for you? Is $9 per hour a living wage? Can I pay rent, utilities, food, busfare on $9 per hour? Is it OK that 50,000 factories are gone in the last 12 years? That's 4166 factories per year gone forever, not coming back. That's 83 factories x 50 states per year for 12 years. That's 750,000 jobs per month when Bush was in office toward the end. Is this what we want? Can we create a society once again where we can send our kids to school. go to work for a living, even spending wage, take a vacation or two, go to the hospital when sick, participate in the betterment of our society, help others less fortunate than ourselves, spend time with our family because we're not working 3 jobs? We had this society 60 years ago. Or shouid we be profit profit profit only? Can we have people and planet in that profit equation? Personally less stuff purchased for me me me and more kindness given for you and you and you makes me feel happy and good. I won't be shopping at Walmart on Black Friday in support of the employees who have truthful issues.

I can remember when there were plenty of jobs available and employers offered benefits like health isurance in order to hire/attract the best people. When things were profitable, they would share with the employees through profit sharing (remember that?) People could change jobs if they didn't like a place. Now, (thanks to NAFTA which enabled a lot of employers to move to cheaper places to produce goods) that is all gone. Employers are in business to make money, that's what they do. They are not in it to enrich employees. There are so many people out of work that if you don't like a place, too bad, there are a lot of people in line right behind you that will do the job, benefits or not. Until there are plenty of jobs in America, employers will continue to run things the way they see fit since they are the ones writing the checks. If the jobs come back, things will change but not until then.