Up Against Walmart Karen Olsson Analysis

In the Essay "Up Against Wal-Mart" by Karen Olsson she stands up against Wal-Mart's widely successful industry and puts them on blast about how they push their employees to the max with, low wages, overtime working with no pay, women discrimination, and union crushing. Throughout Olsson's essay she dwells on the fact that Wal-Mart is very harsh on unions. Wal-Mart's female employees feel unfairly treated compared to the men employees. She argues how Wal-Mart employees are not paid fairly for their work and a lot of the time are cheated from their money. Olsson also mentions how women at Wal-Mart are not treated equally when it comes to pay and how Wal-Mart makes it their duty to shut down any unions trying to form. Olsson is right that many Wal-Mart workers are not getting paid what they deserve, including women , but she seems on ore …show more content…
Olsson makes great points about this topic all throughout her essay. She states great logos examples of how women do not get equal pay or the positions they deserve, "In 2001, a Wal-Mart executive conducted an internal study that showed the company pays female store managers less than men in the same position"(5). This is absolutely not fair to women to work the same positions as men and still get less pay. Olsson also states how "more than two-thirds of all Wal-Mart employees are women- yet women make up less than 10 percent of top store manager"(5).All the facts Olsson has supporting her points are valuable because they show numbers and gives the readers insight on actual data. When Olsson states that "Wal-Mart today has the same percentage of women in management that the average company had in 1975"(5). It pulls on the Pathos appeal of readers because they will think how wrong and unfair that percentage is and how that percentage should be