Friday, January 20, 2012
Walmart Women rise at Walmart
Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Given its battle against a huge sex discrimination suit, Walmart's announcement today of promotion of two women to lofty positions in the company seems worthy of note.
Rosalind G. Brewer, 49, will become president and CEO of Sam's Club and Gisel Ruiz, 41, was named chief operating officer of Walmart U.S.
Here's the full release, including some other promotions.
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Shouldn't the rise to halls of power and their abuse of it by the likes of Obama and Hillary teach all of us that war criminals, 1 percent protecting, inhumane neoliberals can come from all colors or sex?
Now of course I not passing judgement of any kind on these two ladies... but we know a lot of dreadful things about Wal-Mart and the siblings who inherited it, thus just what executives in Wal-Mart will be expected to do (promote neoliberal free trade and low wages, always!). To read articles as simple as this... and then champion a break through the glass ceiling with no more info than this is to invite more tomfoolery. Surely most feminists or people who care about racism would agree the above post alone is no reason to cheer?
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This is what Eureka is talking about:
19-Jan 2006 U.S. 8th Circuit Court reinstates case against Wal-Mart for excluding union members from its employee benefit plans and for willfully ignoring the National Labor Relations Board order to rescind the clause and post notices to employees.
from Smith's Alternative Arkansas History
"Now of course I not passing judgement of any kind on these two ladies... "
If not, why are your fingers moving? Either they got the job or they didn't. Either there has been change or there has not. Either they have testes or they don't.
By the way, there is no "e" in an American, as opposed to a British, judgment.
Not, of course, that I am passing judgment.
***If*** they got a promotion because they played the game like - and will continue to be just like the old school white boy network before them, then what's to celebrate?
The only glass ceiling hallelujah in this respect would be the paycheck amount. (if it's the same or more then their predecessors.)
“. . . we know a lot of dreadful things about Wal-Mart . . .”
The dreadful things we know reach far beyond Wal-Mart.
Earlier this week the NY Times reported that nonunion retail workers in New York City (where living expenses are sky-high) earn “median” pay of $9.50 an hour. The “average” pay for retail workers in the Big Apple is $10.07 an hour.
(As of October 31, 2011, Wal-Mart was paying its full-time, non-management employs in New York state an “average” hourly rate of $12.87. And matching dollar-for-dollar employee contributions to the 401(k) plan, up to 6% of pay.)
The story in the Times was based on a study consisting of interviews with 436 nonunion workers in 230 retail businesses, ranging from high-end establishments on Fifth Avenue to discount stores on Fordham Road in the Bronx.
The focus was on 10 segments within retail: Furniture, home furnishings, electronics and appliance stores, home centers, cosmetics and beauty supply, clothing stores, shoe stores, book stores, department stores, and office supply and stationary stores.
The study was financed by the Retail Action Project, an organization in Manhattan that is financed by unions and foundations; by City University’s Murphy Institute; and by the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/nyregion…
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