Black Friday is coming. The Retail Corporations are bombarding us with ads on how great their lowest prices ever will be on that day. Come celebrate the Christmas holiday buy giving us your hard earned money. It works, sadly. Most stores do more that DAY than they do on an average two week span.
How did it come to be that the holiest day of Christianity has become an orgy of conspicuous consumption? I am not a Christian, but I do believe that Jesus was not a big fan of being showy with wealth. (Could that be why many stores have changed the title from Christmas to Holiday? nah more on that in a minute.)
These retail corporations are the modern sweatshops. They pay just above minimum wage and continually are looking for ways to keep "costs" (read payment to employees) down. The treatment of Wal*Mart workers is something that is well documented. The treatment of workers in the rival Target Corporation is not as well documented, but a quick scan of www.targetunion.org tells some interesting tales of workers who are underpaid and LOCKED IN when the store is closed.
This is the busy season for retail workers, and the front line employees are the ones who take the abuse from the customers while the CEO's count their profits and figure the next round of "Cost" cuts so they can get their bonus for scoring a win against the working people.
Retail workers unite! Stand together for better wages and working conditions!
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