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Supermarket strike

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all168

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What is your opinion for the So Ca supermarket chain on strike? Please correct me if I am wrong. I heard the people said the experienced full time shelf stocker are earning about $16 per hour, holiday DOUBLE pay, whole family medical insurance coverage, life insurance, and of course 401K, etc, and union don't feel this is good enough and want more. My opinion is I will not support it. I think the economic is not consider good, a lot of small market is very competative in price and quality, is the union rather see supermarket layoff people, or even close down the store? I don't understand that. I seldom buying anything from those big market chain 'cos their price, I know they have very clean & neat envirement, I don't care about those much, all I care is price then quality. If you live in the city with a lot of foreigner like South American or Asian, if you know any friends work their, they have no comparison to those big chain. They are earning minimum or little over minimum, sometimes employer provide insurance to the employee ONLY, about the family? Forget it, I think before Gray Davis recalled, he signed a bill that all employer require medical insurance for the employee, that mean more layoff. Since I am here at AT, I believe I should compare before I shop, few weeks ago from the local small market, I got banana 10lbs for $1.00, $0.09/lb for seedless watermelon(I love it in the summer), $2.97/lb for T-bone, $0.89/lb for mixed pork chop,$0.79/bag of wonder bread, etc. I never see deal like this in those big market chain, that's why I seldom make any purchase from them. I believe supermarket are suppose to fight for higher pay for the union members, nothing wrong with what they are doing, it will make the members happy, but do they thinking higher labor mean higher price for the supermarket products, then less shopper mean less earning, then layoff of close down will happen. If anyone who suppose to goto work at supermarket tonight but union told them to stay home and are reading AT now, please share your opinion.
 
Learn English and the use of paragraphs and I might read it.......BTW this strike is a perfect example of why California must and will eventually implode economically and then rise from it's ashes and start over since they have screwed everything up so bad it cannot be fixed.
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
I don't really see the point of people striking when they have no special skills and are easily replaced.
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Right, I believe if supermarket post a ad and hiring people to replace the people on strike, no experience and high school grad only and pay $12/hr, I think a lot of people will apply.
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
I don't really see the point of people striking when they have no special skills and are easily replaced.
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I think you just defined a union member.....and they are the only ones who strike.

 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Learn English and the use of paragraphs and I might read it.......BTW this strike is a perfect example of why California must and will eventually implode economically and then rise from it's ashes and start over since they have screwed everything up so bad it cannot be fixed.
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I'm sorry, I will learn it now and apply it next time.
 
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I suppose it's the union's job to get the most for their members, but if they're already doing pretty good, I wouldn't support it.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: PipBoy
I don't really see the point of people striking when they have no special skills and are easily replaced.
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I think you just defined a union member.....and they are the only ones who strike.
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There are a lot of unions with highly skilled workers--dockworkers (at least the guys who operate the cranes and machinery), nurses, air traffic controllers (back in the day).
 
The union isnt demanding anything.

The three companies, Albertsons, Kroger, and Safeway, want to have the employees pay a $20-80 a month health insurance premium(right now they pay none). The Union thinks thats unfair.

The companies have all the cards, either the Union will drop the strike, and give in to the small request, or the companies will lock out all strikers and eventually replace all of them with new hires.

Most of these dumbasses striking will lose more money in 2 weeks of striking than they would if they accepted the insurance premiums.
 
If you guys think grocery strikers are rather grubby about money,
remember the Longshoremen/ Warehouse Union worker strike.
Imagine being on strike while making a 6 figure salary.
Something to ponder over the power of unions...

This is not to say that I have something against unions.
But I believe that people should be paid accordingly to the job skill they provide and the years of service they give to a company.
 
Originally posted by: digitalsm
The union isnt demanding anything.

The three companies, Albertsons, Kroger, and Safeway, want to have the employees pay a $20-80 a month health insurance premium(right now they pay none). The Union thinks thats unfair.

The companies have all the cards, either the Union will drop the strike, and give in to the small request, or the companies will lock out all strikers and eventually replace all of them with new hires.

Most of these dumbasses striking will lose more money in 2 weeks of striking than they would if they accepted the insurance premiums.
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I don't believe they can be fired by going on strike.
 
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Originally posted by: digitalsm
The union isnt demanding anything.

The three companies, Albertsons, Kroger, and Safeway, want to have the employees pay a $20-80 a month health insurance premium(right now they pay none). The Union thinks thats unfair.

The companies have all the cards, either the Union will drop the strike, and give in to the small request, or the companies will lock out all strikers and eventually replace all of them with new hires.

Most of these dumbasses striking will lose more money in 2 weeks of striking than they would if they accepted the insurance premiums.
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I don't believe they can be fired by going on strike.
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They cant be fired for going on strike, but there comes a point where they can be permanently replaced by new hires.
 
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Originally posted by: digitalsm
The union isnt demanding anything.

The three companies, Albertsons, Kroger, and Safeway, want to have the employees pay a $20-80 a month health insurance premium(right now they pay none). The Union thinks thats unfair.

The companies have all the cards, either the Union will drop the strike, and give in to the small request, or the companies will lock out all strikers and eventually replace all of them with new hires.

Most of these dumbasses striking will lose more money in 2 weeks of striking than they would if they accepted the insurance premiums.
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I don't believe they can be fired by going on strike.
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Don't know if they can get fired from strike, but can they get less work hour from the company? I have a friend who is a nurse, several nurse union send her a letter and ask her to joint their union, she did search and ask many people and finally she did not joint. Union promise she will get at least $4 more per hour, if anyone know Garfield medical center in Montery park had employees on strike few years ago, don't know if they got a black list or something like that, in hospital, if they don't have enough patients, they will ask some nurse to go home or cancel their work day before they goto work, those who had strike before got bigger chance to get cancel. I had several friends who work their before and now work at somewhere else now.

 
whoa, wait a minute. the stockboys make 12-16/hour?? that seems excessive for a no skill job. is this right?? i thought they made minimum.
 
Originally posted by: all168
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Originally posted by: digitalsm
The union isnt demanding anything.

The three companies, Albertsons, Kroger, and Safeway, want to have the employees pay a $20-80 a month health insurance premium(right now they pay none). The Union thinks thats unfair.

The companies have all the cards, either the Union will drop the strike, and give in to the small request, or the companies will lock out all strikers and eventually replace all of them with new hires.

Most of these dumbasses striking will lose more money in 2 weeks of striking than they would if they accepted the insurance premiums.
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I don't believe they can be fired by going on strike.
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Don't know if they can get fired from strike, but can they get less work hour from the company? I have a friend who is a nurse, several nurse union send her a letter and ask her to joint their union, she did search and ask many people and finally she did not joint. Union promise she will get at least $4 more per hour, if anyone know Garfield medical center in Montery park had employees on strike few years ago, don't know if they got a black list or something like that, in hospital, if they don't have enough patients, they will ask some nurse to go home or cancel their work day before they goto work, those who had strike before got bigger chance to get cancel. I had several friends who work their before and now work at somewhere else now.
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english...grammar...overload...
 
Driving home tonight I passed 3 grocery stores with what looked like 18-20 year old kids waving "locked out" signs around. Some people were honking support. What's a non-middle finger way of saying "you suck, go back to work or get another job"?
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
Driving home tonight I passed 3 grocery stores with what looked like 18-20 year old kids waving "locked out" signs around. Some people were honking support. What's a non-middle finger way of saying "you suck, go back to work or get another job"?
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and people wonder why the economy is in the dumps? stop paying people 20dollars an hour for what should be a minimum wage job!! tell the morons to get back to work
 
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