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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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