Walmart now wants her employees to wear uniforms to work because - TopicsExpress

Walmart now wants her employees to wear uniforms to work because it will appear more professional. As a child, I was told about the horrible labor conditions that Americans had to overcome to secure a middle class. We covered coal camps and company stores which would issue scrip, a form of money to buy goods from their store. The workers pay would never exceed the store owed debt which made it nearly impossible for labor to ever leave coal mining employ. They were, pretty much, indentured servants, serving life terms and mired in constant debt. Learning all of this, I remember thinking that the workers should band together and beat the hell out of those slavers, on principle; set the record straight and establish some basic terms on human dignity and just how much rope one was allowed to have before the infractions resulted in enough length to hang them with. Eventually, workers did do that, and violent and bloody labor disputes erupted. Circling back to Walmart and the professional image it wants to project- even as her workers are on public assistance just to be able to feed themselves- a warning: youve officially reached your limit on rope and if you keep advancing, history warns of plunging off a platform by your own design.