Back in 2018, with an eye to writing a novel about low-wage work in America, I got a job at a big-box store near the Catskills in New York, where I live. I was on the team that unloaded the truck of new merchandise each day at 4 a.m.
The article mentions walmart increasing the number of part time employees around 2005, my mom worked at a corporate office around this time and listened to trainings where they were teaching store managers how to coach their part time employees through signing up for government benefits. Walmarts stated plan was to have the government subsidize employee wages through services like food stamps, worked fucking perfectly, but no real surprise there when they can spend millions on lobbying
The article mentions walmart increasing the number of part time employees around 2005, my mom worked at a corporate office around this time and listened to trainings where they were teaching store managers how to coach their part time employees through signing up for government benefits. Walmarts stated plan was to have the government subsidize employee wages through services like food stamps, worked fucking perfectly, but no real surprise there when they can spend millions on lobbying