<p>It doesnt help the economy to keep all the money in the hands of the one %.</p>
<p>I’ve never taken an economics class in my life, but even I can see if 100 people each have $1000, they will buy more goods and services than if 90 people have $111 and 10 people have $9,000.</p>
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<p>I believe Fortune magazine has been putting out a best company to work for list, for decades.
How is it less valid than say the lists of US News? 
I think it is helpful to see how companies differ, whether you are looking for somewhere to work or to invest.
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<p>I used to work at a company that had profit sharing for everyone. It was my first non retail job. ( It was an insurance company) They also encouraged creative thinking & if you made a suggestion that was adopted, you got a bonus. </p>
<p>I was able to make lots of suggestions directly related to my job that were then adopted, 
which seemed like common sense to me at the time, but I was very young and I didn’t realize that common sense isn’t common in business, otherwise I might have stayed there longer, but I am not really cut out for a desk job & when I had to take a medical leave,( to go on bedrest) I decided to choose a different path when I felt better.</p>
<p>The One Percent? Really?</p>
<p>Okay. Go at it, People. It’s all fault of the One Percent.</p>
<p>Zoosermom, NONE of that negates the fact that your family is being supported by a union job. </p>
<p>Are you morally opposed to unions, or not?</p>
<p>“The profoundly significant difference between your husband and a walmart worker, then, is that your husband can buy his own food AND <em>gasp</em> pay ALL of your kids’ tuition.”</p>
<p>And retire with a pension and benefits that is guaranteed by his union’s contract with NYC. I doubt there are any hourly Walmart workers who will get that from Walmart when they retire.</p>
<p>Emilybee, I find it very odd that you make such personal, inappropriate and incorrect assumptions. You know absolutely nothing about my reasons for having concerns with unions.</p>
<p>Scubasue, I am not sure of the reason for your snark. I never equated my husband’s personal situation with hose of Walmart workers. What I did was ask you (collectively) to be aware that Walmart does not stand alone in its practices. That’s all.</p>
<p>So what are we thinking here - another 15 posts before the thread is shut down? 30? Somewhere in there, unless the tone improves.</p>
<p>Sew happy, there are some unions that do important and good things. But in 2012 there is a great deal of corruption, which means that union membership is no guarantee of worker protection.</p>
<p>Sorry for the mixup in names. I edited my post.</p>
<p>We don’t go to Walmart because there isn’t a Walmart within an hour of here. Never heard of Wegmans.</p>
<p>Scuba sue, no I am not morally opposed to unions. There is nothing In this thread to indicate that except incorrect assumptions by a pretty new poster. You should take a poster as the authority on his or her own life, opinions and posting history, not an antagonistic third poster.</p>
<p>I never heard of Wegman’s either. But I want one now! (In WA)</p>
<p>“Emilybee, I find it very odd that you make such personal, inappropriate and incorrect assumptions. You know absolutely nothing about my reasons for having concerns with unions.”</p>
<p>No, I don’t know why you are so anti-union - only that you are but your family is dependent on, to a significant degree, the good wages and benefits from your husbands union job and I can’t wrap my head around how someone in your position would not want others to have the same opportunity of a good paying job with benefits as your family enjoys.</p>
<p>What I like about Wegmans, as a vegetarian, is that the vegetables are local and fresh. The little signs even tel you the name of the farm where they were grown. Plus Creme caramel mousse cups.</p>
<p>What you can’t wrap your mind around Emilybee is your,problem and has nothing to do with my posts, opinions or marriage. You need to take a large step back.</p>
<p>“There is nothing In this thread to indicate that except incorrect assumptions by a pretty new poster. You should take a poster as the authority on his or her own life, opinions and posting history, not an antagonistic third poster.”</p>
<p>You have made numerous anti-union remarks in other threads and I am not a new poster. I have been on this board for 3 years.</p>
<p>Well, I think what probably prompted this entire thread and the debate here is antagonism toward Walmart for resisting unionization of its workforce. And I would also add in that there is enormous dislike of Walmart because so many educated, higher income types who think they strongly empathize with “the poor” actually detest things “the poor” enjoy!</p>
<p>In all honesty, I think the anger at Walmart stems from both – anger that it resists unions AND aesthetics (or lack of) that offend elite sensibilities. </p>
<p>The two gripes – Unions and Lack of Class – get tangled up and sort of fused into this huge angry weird trope.</p>
<p>If nothing else it is darned interesting!</p>
<p>Could be a sociology thesis at Princeton some day . . .</p>
<p>Zoosermom, but I’m not talking about whether or not individual managers at other companies treat their “underlings” disrespectfully (which was your example). We’re talking about whether or not the entire corporation’s business model at other companies forces us taxpayers to subsidize their employee’s wages with our taxes (while their CEOs rake in obscene paychecks).</p>
<p>Emilybee, I have made such remarks about just about every topic over the years, it is not for you to extrapolate. I have a very long thread that is anti sister, but I am not morally opposed to sisters.</p>
<p>You have some nerve to speak for me. </p>
<p>Scubasue, I am not morally opposed to unions, in concept, but like many things, I believe they have been corrupted.</p>
<p>*We’re talking about whether or not the entire corporation’s business model at other companies forces us taxpayers to subsidize their employee’s wages with our taxes (while their CEOs rake in obscene paychecks). *</p>
<p>Oh heck. Why not? Let’s just go there – those obscene [sic] CEO’s !!!</p>
<p>That’ll get 'em riled up!</p>