Vol. 80/No. 1      January 4, 2016

 

Workers give Walmart ‘bonus’ bribe to SWP

 
’Tis the season for some capitalists to give holiday “bonuses” designed to bribe workers not to report injuries and to refrain from fighting low wages, speedup and unsafe job conditions. Class-conscious workers are turning these blood-money bribes into a contribution to the Socialist Workers Party’s Capital Fund to help finance the party’s long-range work.

“Enclosed is a $214.06 check for the Capital Fund,” wrote Osborne Hart, a Walmart overnight stocker who was the 2015 SWP candidate for mayor of Philadelphia. “This money comes from the Walmart ‘MyShare’ bonus for reaching the quota they set for sales profits and the fact that there were no accidents reported by workers at the Super Center where I work.

“As you know, ‘MyShare’ is the bosses’ euphemism for what we know as blood money.”

So far Hart and 10 other Walmart workers have sent in contributions from such year-end bonuses totaling $2,587.90! “Now is the time to build the workers’ movement,” wrote Dean Hazlewood from New York, enclosing his check for $175.

— MAGGIE TROWE

 
 
 
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