Wal-Mart Workers’ Black Friday Strike

Wal-Mart is one of the largest American retailer. The company differentiate from other company by having large variety of different products, discount warehouse and discount department store. As the company has to minimize cost in order to keep the competitive price, the wage of the workers is minimize. Other that wages, the other basic benefit of the employee such as health care is also spiking. Due to the poor benefit that the employee  are receiving, they are having a strike during the black friday. This is going to have an immediate effect on the company. The following time will be the busiest moment of the company and they are lacking employee to work for them. It will cause pressure for the company to obey to the needs of employee.

In the company management prospective, a health company should be earning profit and has a positive working atmosphere. Positive working atmosphere can help the employee to work harder for the company. They will treat the customer better. In order to improve the working spirit of the employee, Wal-mart can either improve the benefits for the employee. Or, they can do more internal gathering between department.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-16/wal-mart-workers-black-friday-strike#r=most%20popular

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