the last time I heard, people aren't forced to work for Walmart or Sam's, they apply to a job there and can chose to work there or not. it up to them to take care of the issues they have with their employer, not me. seems like both Walmart and Sam's would have to do something if they couldn't get anyone to work for them.
A job is a job to some people. Walmart will hire just about anybody as they are a really big company and an easy target for a discrimination case if they didn't. I'm sure they have some dark corner they can shove a person and get work out of them. With some counties in this state being in 20% unemployement, I think that there is less of an option to some people. Walmart would not be my first job choice, but if I needed a job and the money and they would hire me, I would go there, not because I wanted to go there. I really wouldn't have a choice in the matter, unless y'all wanted mind me mooching over your tax dollars and get assistence. I guess why not, everyone else is.
As to leaving it up between the employer and employee, not much is really going to happen unless there is some regulation that might affect them if it goes public. However, in order to get to that regulation, people outside the employeer and employee "circle" have to care about how things are settled. I doubt the working conditions in the cotton gin back in my hometown would have changed at all if it was left up to the employeer and employee to settle it and my now deceased relatives could tell you some horror stories about that place. Which I'm sure contributed to it being closed down even before cotton stopped being grown around the town.
