Walmart's decision to raise 500,000 workers' pay to $9 an hour in April is having a ripple effect in the retail industry, with TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, saying it will raise its minimum pay to $9 an hour in June and, for workers who've been with the company for six months or more, to $10 an hour in 2016. It's clear that Walmart's move was a factor:
"This pay initiative is an important part of our strategies to continue attracting and retaining the best talent in order to deliver a great shopping experience for our customers, remain competitive on wages in our U.S. markets, and stay focused on our value mission."
Other big box chains are not planning the same move. Target, for instance, doesn't have any $9 plans.
While having major retail chains raising wages to $9 and ultimately $10 an hour is very good news for workers, it's not a living wage, especially for the many workers who remain trapped in part-time jobs with unpredictable scheduling that can prevent them from getting second jobs to supplement their income. In short, as positive as this news is, we're not going to see an end to workers at hugely profitable chains needing food drives or government assistance yet.though there was no reference to it i wonder if the Walmarts and others were losing enough business to urge them to change their stingy methods of refusing employees and asking consumers who shop there to kick in so their employees can live better while they take in billions, that is a slap in the face and stinks of sweatshop environments, they ask the consumer to make up for their inhumanities while shopping in their stores. or have the worker walk outs themselves swayed the big business scrooges don't think so.
i know they refused to build here in DC because city council required them to pay fair wages instead
of doing it they after closing an entire shopping center that to this day is vacant and fenced in since 2012 pulled up stakes. reprehensible greed driven billionaires are the root of all evil not the money the love of it drives the despicable acts of starving your workers and their families they don't get off that easy the blame stops at the one that signs the checks. recognize
