首页
登录
职称英语
The 70,000 grocery workers on strike in Southern California are the front lin
The 70,000 grocery workers on strike in Southern California are the front lin
游客
2023-12-18
42
管理
问题
The 70,000 grocery workers on strike in Southern California are the front line in a battle to prevent middle-class service jobs from turning into poverty-level ones. The supermarkets say they are forced to lower their labor costs to compete with Wal-Mart, a nonunion, low- wage employer aggressively moving into the grocery business. Everyone should be concerned about this fight. It is, at bottom, about the ability of retail workers to earn wages that keep their families out of poverty.
Grocery stores in Southern California are bracing for the arrival, in February, of the first of 40 Wal-Mart grocery supercenters. Wal-Mart’s prices are about 14 percent lower than other groceries’because the company is aggressive about squeezing costs, including labor costs. Its workers earn a third less than unionized grocery workers, and pay for much of their health insurance. Wal-Mart uses hardball tactics to ward off unions. Since 1995, the government has issued at least 60 complaints alleging illegal anti-union activities.
Southern California’s supermarket chains have reacted by demanding a two-year freeze on current workers’salaries and lower pay for newly hired workers, and they want employees to pay more for health insurance. The union counters that if the supermarkets match Wal-Mart, their workers will be pushed out of the middle class. Those workers are already only a step-- or a second family income--from poverty, with wages of roughly $18,000 a year. Wal-Mart sales clerks make about $14,000 a year, below the $15,960 poverty line for a family of three.
Wal-Mart may also be driving down costs by using undocumented immigrants. Last month, federal agents raided Wal-Mart’s in 21 states. Wal-Mart is facing a grand jury investigation, and a civil racketeering class-action filed by cleaners who say they were underpaid when working for contractors hired by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart insists that it was unaware of its contractors’practices. But aware or not, it may have helped to deprive legally employable janitors of jobs and adequate pay.
This Wal-Martization of the work force, to which other low-cost, low-pay stores also contribute, threatens to push many Americans into poverty. The first step in countering it is to enforce the law. The government must act more vigorously, and more quickly, when Wal-Mart uses illegal tactics to block union organizing. And Wal-Mart must be made to pay if it exploits undocumented workers.
Unions understand that the quickest way to win this war is to organize Wal-Mart workers. And Wal-Mart’s competitors have to strive for Wal-Mart’s efficiency without making workers bear the brunt. Consumers can also play a part. Wal-Mart likes to wrap itself in American values. It should be reminded that one of those is paying workers enough to give their families a decent life. [br] The following measures could be taken to counter Wal-Martization of the work force EXCEPT ______.
选项
A、to enforce relevant laws
B、to raise workers’ salaries
C、to organize Wal-Mart workers
D、to match Wal-Mart’s efficiency
答案
B
解析
文章最后两段谈到反击Wal-Mart低工资制的办法(包括A,C,D三个选项所提内容),但选项B所提方法显然行不通。Wal-Mart的竞争对手如果贸然提高自己员工的工资,则更加难以对抗Wal-Mart。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3284646.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]IntheseasidetownofBrightoninsouthernEnglandtherulin
[originaltext]IntheseasidetownofBrightoninsouthernEnglandtherulin
[originaltext]IntheseasidetownofBrightoninsouthernEnglandtherulin
[originaltext]IntheseasidetownofBrightoninsouthernEnglandtherulin
Itispopulartolamentthegrowinggapbetweencapitalistsandworkers.Ino
Itispopulartolamentthegrowinggapbetweencapitalistsandworkers.Ino
Amajorstudyofthegrocery-buyinghabitsofmillionsofAmericansreleased
Whatstrikesthewomanmostaboutthemalerobberishis[br][originaltext]M.
Whatstrikesthewomanmostaboutthemalerobberishis[originaltext]M.Mrs.H
ThestrikehasbrokenoutinSouthAfricabecause[br][originaltext]South
随机试题
WelcometoVirginiaPleasecometofeelthewarmtho
AgricultureinBritainI.Britishagricultureanditssu
AnimalsontheMoveItlookedlikeascenefrom"Jaw
述职报告的写法依据报告的场合和对象而定,一般来说采用总结式写法。()
(2015年)下列关于盈亏临界点的表述中,错误的有( )。A.盈亏临界点销售量
某18层办公楼,建筑面积32000m2,总高度71m,钢筋混凝土框架一剪力墙结构
男性,66岁,良性前列腺增生,一般状况良好,残余尿量达60ml,首选的治疗方法是
可燃气体检测仪器安置时,下列说法错误的是( )。A.安装前检查探头是否完好,规格
价值工程应用中,对提出的新方案进行综合评价的定量方法有( )。A.头脑风暴法
女,39岁,呕吐、腹泻2天,烦躁不安半天急诊入院。查体:BP120/80mmHg
最新回复
(
0
)