Wal-mart is bad for America, mostly in ways hidden from the public’s eye. The second team counter argues that wal-mart destroys smaller, “ma & pa” stores, Stores that have done personable, reliable business for decades. Wal-mart is too big for the smaller stores to stop. From the moment a wal-mart comes into these, “ma & pa” towns wal-mart quickly puts them out of business due to their low prices, regardless of what anyone may want. With the economy collapsing people are forced to shop for the lowest prices and work for anyone supplying job opportunities.
Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating In Good and Bad Times Who is the main Character Ron Bent the plant manager is the main character. He is tasked with attempting to turnaround the Engstrom plant because of low productivity and slumping profitability. What is Actually the Problem Although there are many different issues at the Engstrom plant, one of the main problems is that the management is not properly motivating their employees. This is causing low productivity and profitability at the plant, which is making Ron Bent the plant manager lay off workers and the Engstrom Family consider closing the plant. Bent describes this as a “vicious cycle”.
Most owners of a chain stores are said to be only interested in a making a profit instead of supporting the local community. By closing this store, the social responsibility has not been met, because it would increase the unemployment rate in the community, leading to more crimes. A growing number of consumers are becoming more aware of the products they buy, but also how the goods and services they buy have been produced. Consumers are concerned about human rights, environmentally harmful production and animal welfare issues that revolve around products they purchase. Customers are prepared to buy products from companies that have retailers who act ethically and socially responsible when purchasing products to sell in their stores.
Creating an independent agency, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), to enforce the act. (Budd, 121) Nike is slashing its international workforce. Nike has been criticized over the way they have treated its employees in foreign factories. They have been accused of employee abuse and unfair wages. Nike is not the only Western retailer to face criticism over how foreign workers work in poor conditions because these companies want big profits.
In my opinion it is a sick cycle, which enviably will reduce the standard of living in the United States. The individuals seeking to pay less for their purchases don’t realize the effect it has on the surrounding economy, including reduced wages, reduced community support, reduced business opportunity, reduced land values, reduced tax base, and ultimately lower standard and quality of living for most members of the community. I personally think that Wal-Mart is a modern day monopoly. It kills the competition. This is harmful for our economy.
This is the cause of many economic issues such as decreasing job opportunities, rising costs, injustice, and crime. Border security breach for the country as a whole and in particular for the residents of the town may cause ecological imbalance by over populating the locality. It is hard to find, when an illegal immigrant commits a crime it takes much longer to sentence him. The government has created to help people that do not have the funds for things such as health care, food, and other things. The taxpayers pay for these programs.
It means that there were jobs that were classified as superior jobs that paid more and high skill levels, and then there were the jobs that were the “blue collar” jobs with the lower level skills. Many who had the higher skills to work a primary job were placed in secondary jobs due to their race. The internment camps were the worst that had happen to Japanese Americans. They were taken from their daily lives and forced into a camp, where they had to live their lives. It was all because the United States and its people were afraid of a homeland internal attack.
Many Americans did not trust these new business ideas and the “Sherman antitrust act” came into play. Small business owners and farmers felt like they were being pushed around and treated unfairly by these corporations. The next issue that people had with business was the new labor laws. People were working outrageous hours, in unsafe areas, and on top of that getting paid vey low wages. The working citizens expressed their need for the government to interject into the issues and
These feelings of hatred arose when the Japanese began to move into the United States in search for work industries on the West Coast. Upon there arrival, they encountered racist reactions from many Americans. The Americans believed that the Japanese were stealing jobs and lowering wages. Many laws were passed that openly discriminated against Asians, Japanese in specific. Many of these laws stated that Japanese could not become citizens of the United States and could not hold basic rights.
citizens. Illegal immigrants undermine American business owners by charging considerably lower prices for labor, such as contract work and construction. Who wouldn’t want to pay a lower price to get their flooring installed? So who suffers? The owners if these businesses are losing work to these illegal immigrants every day.