OUR Walmart
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To: Store Manager at Walmart Store # 5625
Walmart: Give us more hours!
Today, we stand before you, asking Walmart to follow through on its public commitment to providing Associates with MORE HOURS and MORE CLEARLY DEFINED FULL-TIME POSITIONS to be permanently added to our schedules.
Why is this important?
Although I am full time, I do not get 40 hours a week. Add that I only make $8.40/hour and the only way I can survive is sharing an apartment with my children and grandchildren. I even have to rely on food stamps just to feed myself and my family. I'm asking Walmart to give my coworkers and I the hours and pay we need to survive.
As Walmart Associates, we want to do the best job we can. We come to work every day and are proud of the job we do. We are the people helping customers, stocking shelves, moving inventory, getting carts and other items to their proper places, and making sure we run the store in the best way possible. However, as we continue to carry out this work, we are finding it difficult to keep food on the table, pay our rent, provide for our family, put gas in our cars, and make ends meet due to the lack of hours in our schedules.
Today, we stand before you, asking Walmart to follow through on its public commitment to providing Associates with MORE HOURS and MORE CLEARLY DEFINED FULL-TIME POSITIONS to be permanently added to our schedules.
We believe this will help ensure that every store is running to the best of its abilities and that Associates will not be going home hungry, avoiding medical care because we are worried about the high cost, living paycheck to paycheck and choosing between rent and food.
We believe more hours and full-time work is a more viable and successful strategy than continually hiring and firing temps and letting go of longtime Associates with invaluable experience. We believe these changes will benefit customers, as when hours and positions are cut, we are no longer able to carry out the necessary work in a timely, safe and efficient manner. It is the right thing to do; for the store, for the customers, for all Associates.
One year ago, Wal-Mart said it would provide Associates the opportunity for more hours and full-time positions. With $17 billion in profit per year, we believe there is no viable reason why Walmart follow-through with its commitment and provide much needed change.
