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Than a £1,000 a year extra. the chief secretary to the treasury, simon clarke, has been talking about the rise in the national living wage. let�*s have a listen. we are delighted today to be announcing an increase of the national living wage which will rise from £8.81 an hour to £9.50 an hour which is worth £1000 for an average worker on a full—time national living wage. worker on a full-time national living wage-— living wage. will that go far enough? — living wage. will that go far...

But the good news is that our walmart folks which is organizing and helping people who work at walmart come together is increasingly active and they have actually had some victories recently around the pregnancy issue of women working at walmart, around scheduling. obviously there are bigger fights ahead and the key question is can we put pressure on them so that they will pay a fair wage to people who are working there. the average cashier is getting $8.81 an hour. while the walton family who d...

Enough that no one was eligible for food stamps. the average person living near the poverty line can receive around $130 a month in food stamps. say youre a single mom with one child and you work for walmart, youd be eligible for food samples if you make less than $20,449 a year. walmart says the average wage for hourly store associates is $11.83 an hour. industrial analyst research puts the average cashier at about $8.81 an hour. based on data from one state, ohio, as many as 15% of walmart emp...

Employees well. i will get your reaction. >> we have of the largest percentages of full time workforce and pay in the top half of retail. we provide opportunities and we are proud of that and we have seen hundreds of thens of people who choose to stay with us for ten years and beyond and build a wonderful life for themselves and families. >> he said they are providing a lot of jobs and a lot of them pay decently. >> lets look at it this way. wal-mart workers on average make $8.81 an hour. do you...

Why is this so important? well, walmart is the single-largest private employer in america. so as the walmart worker goes, so goes america. unfortunately, things aint going so hot for the walmart worker. in fact, the average walmart employee makes only $8.81 per hour. and walmart pays its employees so little that taxpayers must subsidize walmart wages by about $1 million per super center. taxpayers foot the bill, so walmart can can underpay its work force. and walmarts massive size has huge rippl...

Not make enough money to buy thanksgiving dinner on their own, and whats their solution? lord knows, its not to pay those associates more. the average walmart employee makes only $8.81 per hour, which works out to be about $17,000 per year in take-home pay for a full-time employee, well below the federal poverty line of $23,000. their solution is certainly not to allow their workers to organize so that maybe they could have a voice in telling management what sort of working conditions, would hel...

In profit. and pays the average worker $8.81 an hour. >> so walmarts argument is that everyone has the opportunity to build the kind of career they want. and many associates advance to salaries much higher than $25,000. so why do organizations like our walmart even exist? >> well, the reason that the organizations exist in making change at walmart exists is because theyre fundamentally not paying people for their work. one of the biggest subsidies that you and every taxpayer is paying for is the...

>> theyre trying to get their jobs back by labor day. walmart didnt respond. they deny that they fired employees as a result of the walkout. they say thats against their policies. they say that employees may be disciplined but they certainly wouldnt be fired. the real issue here among those who are going to gather out here today and at other locations, 15 different locations across the country, is that they believe that wages should be higher. this falls on the heels of what we most recently saw...

President. theres different messages. were looking at it from a the ceo of walmart makes $36 different perspective. >> congressman, if you look at what the republicans are saying, million this year, and the its very similar to what some workers averaging $8.81 an hour. democrats are saying. arent they in somewhat of a political box here, the politics of all of this this? >> mr. greenwald, do you think this is the start of something bigger when it comes to workers >> for some of them, they in ame...

Has no right. they are just stirring up nothing for nothing. this is a made-up contrived situation. >> when you start working here, you know its a minimum wage job, number one. you know that theres no benefits. no health benefits. thats why they have the low price. if you want them to have health benefits, than the price of everything is going to go up. who is that going to hurt? the consumer like me. im on a fixed income, retired. its going to hurt me. >> according to a study done by the uc ber...