Wake-Up Wal-Mart Blog: Lee Scott: "Walmart Jobs are Good Jobs"

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Lee Scott: "Walmart Jobs are Good Jobs"

Reuters is reporting that Lee Scott, Walmart's former CEO who gave up his position at the begining of this year, spoke at the World Food Business Summit in New York and had some pretty interesting things to say. In response to questions about what he would have liked to acomplish as CEO, Scott was quoted as saying, "one place I would have liked to have done more is helping people understand that Wal-Mart jobs, retail jobs in general, are good jobs, they pay well and they offer extraordinary opportunities."

Apparently Scott hasn't talked with any actual average associates in a while. Most of the associates we talk to would rate their jobs as something vastly less than 'good'. Of course in this economy, or any economy, having a job is far better than not having a job, and it's great that Walmart employs so many people, but Walmart's jobs aren't about quality.

To start with, despite what Scott says, Walmart's jobs do not pay well. Walmart pays about 16% less than the average retail company, and the average Walmart employee will make under $20,000 a year. Does that sound like a well paid job to you? Second, Walmart offers inadequte benefits and health coverage. While Walmart claims that 94% of their employees have some kind of helath coverage, Walmart only covers 52% of their employees under thier own plan, failing to cover 675,000 employees. Walmart also covers far fewer employees than most the industry as a whole, which covers 65% of employees, which means a large portion of Walmart's employees must rely on Government assistance to cover their medical costs.

Add that to discrimination, cuts in hours, a schedule that can be changed to the drop of a hat, no overtime, and intimidation in the face of union organizing, and Walmart's jobs don't sound like "good jobs" at all. The saddest part about all of this, however, is that Walmart's jobs COULD be good. We've been pushing for high quality jobs at Walmart for years now, to no avail. One way Mr. Scott could have made headway in "helping people understand that Wal-Mart jobs... are good jobs" would have been to offer a living wage, affordable and adequate health coverage, quality benefits, and more respect in general to all of Walmart's associates.

Posted by Taylor - June 22, 2009 03:49 PM - Real Facts

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I worked for Walmart for almost two years. I did part time so I can try to get an education. They would often cut my hours down to about 16 even though I knew way more then any of the people in Electronics. The part time health care is a joke. You pay a lot then when you need it, you pay a lot or it isnt covered. The management team walks around acting like gods and has told me several times that we are expendable because they have plenty of applications (yet constantly people left because of how bad it was). I am depressed for people that have to work at Walmart because there is so many better places that actually care about what you need and give back to the community they are in.

Posted by Kevin - June 25, 2009 07:13 PM

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Posted by Darrell R Wild - June 30, 2009 09:53 AM

i work at walmart store 5254 in the deli
and my manger makes fun of me because i have a learning disability and he did 3 times behind by back to the other people i work with
so i told the head office of walmart and they did nothing and ever since then he has been trying to get even with me by giving me the worest hours and working me to hard and i also have heart probmles i don't think walmart will ever wake up there only there to make money and they don't care how many people they step on walmart is to greedey
and when walmart says save money live better on there tv ads they mean for them not the people and when i got hurt at work with my back i needed to be out of work for 3 weeks but walmart said if i don't come to work they will fire me so walmart does not care if you bleed to death all they care about how much more money they can make for themselfs i hate walmart i feel bad when i see new people that want to work at walmart

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