Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:36:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim <from_alamut-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Wall Martians


> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> 
> 
> > while i'm free associating online, how about this:
>  according to the
> > news, Wal-Mart is involved in a class-action law
> suit that covers 1.6
> > MILLION women who either work there or have worked
> there.
> > 
> > this is amazing to me.  there are about 280
> million amerikans, half
> > women.  most women work half their life (or,
> looked at another way,
> > half of the women in the country are employed at
> any given time).
> > that would be about 140 million women, 70 million
> or so employed.
> > that means that almost TWO PERCENT of working
> women in amerika either
> > have or do work for wal mart.  talk about your
> Gramscian social
> > hegemonic post-modern cluster fuck . . .
> > 
> > fucking amazed,
> > roger
> > 
> > 
Personally, I think Walmart will win this one. They
really emphais promotion on senority which is an
accepted method of promotion and supported by the US
labor movement. Women because of family issues tend to
quit jobs or take leaves of absences (like having
children) which sets their senority clock back to
zero. 

Where i work i get paid about twice the amount of new
hires (been there ten years and work a side contact
job for the same company). Its a mostly female
dominated profession (mental health case management).
On the surface it looks like sexual discrimination but
it is mostly senority plus my williness to work extra
hours for extra pay (which on my team is aviable but
women do not take advantage of..I know, they have
other demands of their time). The point is not that
the enterprize i work for discriminates, the wage
differentials arise from personal choices.

The real thing is not to demand special treatment for
women which would just hurt males and turn them
reactionary...the real point is to abolish the wage
system all together. We should not be tinkering with
the capitalist system, it should be abolished.

====Jim Davis
Ozark Bioregion, USA

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