Discussion: Ohio Bill Seeks Triple Wages For Employees Working On Thanksgiving

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This is something that unions used to do. One wonders how many of those Walmart employees organizing a Thanksgiving walkout voted for the very conservatives that seek to demolish the unions that would otherwise be there to protect them. For all of those I say, “let em eat cake”.

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Triple Thanksgiving pay is a GREAT idea, but add a cherry a-top like a paid personal day. I don’t get working on this day. seems to me people will be home with their families, very low amount of shoppers out, I don’t get it. So if the merchants decide ‘to-H’ with tradition and family values, they should PAY UP and make it worth their employee’s time.

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Loads of people, apparently, will shop on Thanksgiving. “Traditional values” take a backseat to the feeding frenzy except on Election Day. I can be disgusted with the retailers all I like–that’s not a seasonal sentiment. What makes me retch is that folks with the option to spend time with their families instead choose to buy stuff and deny other folks the option by creating overwhelming demand. I mean, come on. Just one day a year. Just one day a year, give it a rest, I swear to God.

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As if the Ohio legislature and Repug GOV, would ever support this bill. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

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The GOP, Tea Party, runs the state of Ohio so that bill is about a likely to win approval as I do winning the lottery here in NY.

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But, but what about the shareholders!

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My sentiments precisely!

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How about stay closed on national holidays, as happens in most developed countries? Try to show a little respect for your nation’s institutions.

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¨Foley said the idea for his bill came from a call last year from a Cincinnati woman who said both she and her 82-year-old mother had been scheduled to work their retail jobs on Thanksgiving.

“I was offended by it,” he said. "Can’t there be one day that’s carved out of this consumerist, materialistic society we’re living in?"¨

Christ on a stick; an 82 year old having to work on Thanksgiving. We really know how to take care of the elderly in this country, don’t we?

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He said the company conducted an employee survey on holiday staffing preferences and found many Macy’s employees appreciated the opportunity to work on Thanksgiving.

I’ve worked retail, both as an employee and a “manager”. The reason they are willing to work on Thanksgiving is because pay is so low and are more than likely kept under 30 hours a week, that they are desparate to pick up any extra money.

In fact, many associates told us that working Thanksgiving evening and overnight means they can be home or with family and friends on Black Friday, which is very unusual in the retail industry.

BS. It’s all hands on deck on Black Friday and if you’re not there that day, don’t expect to have a job after the Christmas rush if over. And who ever said, “I’d rather skip Thanksgiving so I can spend Black Friday with the family.”

Thanksgiving is when many customers prefer to shop.

I would have called BS on this too, but last year for the first time in over 20 years I worked in an office that did not give Black Friday off. The way jobs are these days Thanksgiving may be the only day they can shop for a week or two. Plus, it may be a good opportunity to get away from the family.

Macy’s, Wal-Mart and about two dozen other major retailers open on Thanksgiving Day say consumers demand it.

They also demand CEO pay be cut down to under a million, but I doubt that will happen any time soon.

“We would be opposed to the triple pay for retail employees, which would be discriminatory,”

WTF. Do you even know what discriminatory means?

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