courant.com | Circuit City Step Risks Backlash:
"A new plan for layoffs at Circuit City is openly targeting better-paid workers, risking a public backlash by implying that its wages are as subject to discounts as its flat-screen TVs
The electronics retailer, facing larger competitors and falling sales, said Wednesday that it would lay off about 3,400 store workers - immediately - and replace them with lower-paid new hires as soon as possible"
Risking a public Backlash??? They have got to be kidding?
They are kicking 3400 employees to the curb and then replacing them with even lower paid workers.
A nice little extra thought to warm the hearts of those recently unemployed curb dwellers via Vassmer at dKos:
And of course, Circuit City's CEOs' salaries will not be cut for being overpaid:Circuit City Chief Executive Officer Philip Schoonover was paid $8.52 million in fiscal 2006, including a $975,000 salary. Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson received $3.85 million, including a $1.17 million salary.
Mmmm, what do you expect from a company who donates 90% of its political contributions to Republicans, according to BuyBlue?
Figure the odds? Well... I guess I am not shopping at Circuit City ever again.
This is the epitome of the bush economy. Someone should unionize those workers just to fuck with these unethical bums.
[update]
The Onion does an intersting parody of blaming immigration for these kinds of problems. An issue that republicans will try to push, hopefully with the same laughable results, in the next election cycle:
Immigration: The Human Cost
It is obvious that, in the case of Circuit City's fiscal abuse of employees to continue the enrichment of incompetent Management like their CEO, it has little to do with immigration and everything to do with the deterioration of workers rights in the USA under the Corporate owned Republican party.
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