Walmart’s announcement last month that it is giving some employees a raise to $10 per hour is something to celebrate. Regardless of your feelings about Walmart’s corporate behavior toward its workers, the move is a step in the right direction for so many reasons.
When Walmart acts, so do other businesses. Whether the retail giant is increasing pay for self-serving reasons—to keep employees from seeking better-paying opportunities elsewhere or to thwart labor organizations—makes no difference. A dollar an hour may not seem like much to Food Engineering readers, but it makes a difference to those workers in the trenches.