jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:wow, Walmart is somehow claiming only 50 workers protested on Black Friday. considering i personally know 4 people, i somehow doubt that

You personally know four people who work for WalMart?

jerseyhoya wrote:As far as I am aware, no one

Wal-Mart doesn't have much of a seltzer selection, so it's not my favorite store. But it can be useful.

NYTimes wrote:even business lapdog Adam Davidson sez the folks braying "think of the job-creators!" are ridiculous fucks:

Eric Isbister, the C.E.O. of GenMet, a metal-fabricating manufacturer outside Milwaukee, told me that he would hire as many skilled workers as show up at his door. Last year, he received 1,051 applications and found only 25 people who were qualified. He hired all of them, but soon had to fire 15. Part of Isbister’s pickiness, he says, comes from an avoidance of workers with experience in a “union-type job.” Isbister, after all, doesn’t abide by strict work rules and $30-an-hour salaries. At GenMet, the starting pay is $10 an hour. Those with an associate degree can make $15, which can rise to $18 an hour after several years of good performance. From what I understand, a new shift manager at a nearby McDonald’s can earn around $14 an hour.

The secret behind this skills gap is that it’s not a skills gap at all. I spoke to several other factory managers who also confessed that they had a hard time recruiting in-demand workers for $10-an-hour jobs. “It’s hard not to break out laughing,” says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, referring to manufacturers complaining about the shortage of skilled workers. “If there’s a skill shortage, there has to be rises in wages,” he says. “It’s basic economics.” After all, according to supply and demand, a shortage of workers with valuable skills should push wages up. Yet according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of skilled jobs has fallen and so have their wages....

....One result...is that the fake skills gap is threatening to create a real skills gap.

JFLNYC wrote:What's that link, smooth?

Papa John Realizes He's Been Making An Ass of Himself, Walks Back Stupid Health Reform Remarks
Feeling the heat after he said he would cut employees’ hours because he could’t afford the costs of health insurance, Papa John’s CEO and multimillionaire John Schnatter wrote an op-ed in The Huffington Post “suggesting” that his intentions regarding the implementation of The Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) for Papa John’s employees was all a misunderstanding. He now plans to provide health care benefits to all of his corporate employees along with all employees working in his company-owned stores.

Wrote Schnatter: "Papa John’s, like most businesses, is still researching what the Affordable Care Act means to our operations. Regardless of the conclusion of our analysis, we will honor this law, as we do all laws, and continue to offer 100% of Papa John’s corporate employees and workers in company-owned stores health insurance as we have since the company was founded in 1984.”

...I for one will wait to see what happens before and what his franchises do, including Peyton Manning, who owns 21 Papa John’s locations.

Republicans rip Obama for campaign-style approach to fiscal talks

Frustrated Republican leaders took a swipe Tuesday at President Obama, reminding him “the election is over” as he opts for a campaign-style strategy to sell his tax-hike proposal to middle-class America and small business owners – rather than deal face-to-face with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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Meanwhile, Republicans will make their own appeal to Americas.

Boehner’s office said Tuesday that House Republicans will take their own message to small businesses across the country. Members in the coming days and weeks will hold events and visit local small businesses to emphasize “the threat to jobs posed by congressional Democrats’ small business tax hike.”

Fox is so invested in the "Ricks was rude" line that a network executive vice president went ahead and told The Hollywood Reporter that Ricks had apologized privately: "He apologized in our offices afterward but doesn’t have the strength of character to do that publicly." Ricks doesn't see things that way, though:

In an email to THR, Ricks also disputes FNC's claim of a private apology.
"Please ask Mr. Clemente what the words of my supposed apology were. I'd be interested to know," he said. "Frankly, I don't remember any such apology."