Advice for Wal-Mart
I should have talked about this earlier, but I didn't feel good. I'm talking about how the State of Maryland has passed a Labor-backed law that requires certain employers to do certain things. Namely, any company that has over 10,000 employees and doesn't spend at least 8% of their payroll on health care. Only one company fills that criteria: Wal-Mart.
My advice is to cut their payroll to 9,999, forcing 7,000 employees out of work. Let's see what Labor does then. Will they force a new bill lowering the number? Or maybe Wal-Mart should just close all of its stores in Maryland, but I wouldn't suggest that. Labor wants Wal-Mart out of business, and closing stores in 30 states (the number of states that are also considering similar legislation) would domino into Wal-Mart going out of business.
Wal-Mart stores have refused to organize, meaning Labor has come in and tried to Unionize the store, and the employees have kicked them out.
Good for them. Where workers are Unionized, most of the time you get minimum work for maximum pay. It's impossible to fire an Unionized employee, except for gross violations and even then it's damn near impossible.
Labor is on its way out. The percentage of Unionized workers is shrinking every year.