latest grocery strike news

[Ornery]

Supermarkets, Grocery Clerks Reach Deal

• LOS ANGELES - Negotiators for grocery clerks and three supermarket chains reached a tentative contract agreement Thursday that could bring an end to the longest supermarket strike in U.S. history and send 70,000 cash-strapped employees back to work.

I hope the strikers have to suck it!

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Acanthus
People working at a grocery store should NEVER make more than $12/hr (exluding management).

Same goes for most tech jobs.

Why, because the skill and competency needed to maintain computers is equal to that of a grocery store clerk? I agree that over $20 is pushing it, but when you add in that the average IT worker needs some sort of certification to be hired now, there is no question that $12 an hour is crap.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Acanthus
People working at a grocery store should NEVER make more than $12/hr (exluding management).

Same goes for most tech jobs.

Why, because the skill and competency needed to maintain computers is equal to that of a grocery store clerk?

For the most part.

I agree that over $20 is pushing it, but when you add in that the average IT worker needs some sort of certification to be hired now, there is no question that $12 an hour is crap.

Not in India were a lot of that work is headed.

 

[IGBT]

The day of doom is on the horizon for middle class blue collar workers in the US..either your job is gone or technology has minimized your labour to menial efforts not worthy of your historical pay scale...and most of you are middle class blue collar but lack the experience to see or admit your condition..the grocery strike is only the beginning. The MBA's are out to get ya....

 

[imported_Mike]

The strikers in my area are quite pathetic looking. Im sure they are tired of standing out there day after day but everytime I see them they're standing in a group talking way off to one side of the store.....why not go get a new job already.

 

[Ornery]

If a grocery store hangs a help wanted sign, offers $6.00 per hour with benefits, and there's a line of people around the block applying for those positions, then it certainly isn't worth much more than $6.00 per hour, is it? It's really that simple. You don't like the job, or what it pays? Buh-bye, no chains holding you there!

We've got immigrants coming here with little money or education, and they're starting and running successful businesses. Seems to me, if they can do it, we ought to be able to do it as well. This 'world owes me a living' attitude of half of our citizens is just sickening. :disgust:

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Ornery
If a grocery store hangs a help wanted sign, offers $6.00 per hour with benefits, and there's a line of people around the block applying for those positions, then it certainly isn't worth much more than $6.00 per hour, is it? It's really that simple. You don't like the job, or what it pays? Buh-bye, no chains holding you there!

We've got immigrants coming here with little money or education, and they're starting and running successful businesses. Seems to me, if they can do it, we ought to be able to do it as well. This 'world owes me a living' attitude of half of our citizens is just sickening. :disgust:

That's why we should support the Cheap Labor Conservatives who spend our money like Drunken Sailors

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Supermarkets, Grocery Clerks Reach Deal

• LOS ANGELES - Negotiators for grocery clerks and three supermarket chains reached a tentative contract agreement Thursday that could bring an end to the longest supermarket strike in U.S. history and send 70,000 cash-strapped employees back to work.

I hope the strikers have to suck it!

i hope so too. they deserve it for being morons. i hope they now realize how good they had it.

 

[Ornery]

"That's why we should support the Cheap Labor Conservatives who spend our money like Drunken Sailors "

It's all about the issues:

• Abortion - Ban late term abortions, fetal rights
  Budget & Economy - Maintain STRONG military & Serious Terrorism Budget
  Civil Rights
  Corporations - Cut red tape and regulations.
  Crime - For death penalty
  Drugs
  Education - For school choice and vouchers
  Energy & Oil - Drill in ANWR
  Environment
  Families & Children
  Foreign Policy - Protect America's vital national interests.
  Free Trade - Non isolationism
  Government Reform
  Gun Control
  Health Care - NO National Health Care System!
  Homeland Security - Top priority
  Immigration
  Infrastructure & Technology
  Jobs - Business friendly for more jobs!
  Principles & Values
  Social Security - Privatize it NOW!
  Tax Reform
  War & Peace
  Welfare & Poverty - More of the same welfare reforms.

The Democrats are 180 degrees away from my POV on most of those.

 

[jjyiz28]

more indepth story about tentative contract

the workers already did their damage. i don't believe hiring them back will automatically make the shoppers shop again at the stores. my local albertsons closes at 8PM everyday. their selection is lacking, and products are much closer to due date then ever before. i still shop their though, only out of convenience. i predict they union stores will file for bankrupcy, and non union stores will move in, the union workers will be out of work soon.

 

[amnesiac]

I don't think the supermarket chains are close to being out of business just yet.

Give it a couple months and things will perk back up.

Good thing those lazy m-f's are going back to work. I sneer at them every time I go to Vons.
Not only are the supermarkets closing at 8pm, which is BS, but they have next to nothing as far as stock goes, which is annoying as all hell.

The main thing that keeps me from going to TJ's or elsewhere is the coupons. Got $56 of groceries for $24 this week.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: cricky
The problem, JJYIZ28, is that you continue to pound that no skill drum of yours. Look at your original post. 10 years of experience for the first one. Grocery MANAGER for the second one. Both have earn skilled positions within a company and are paid so. Would you expect $18.90 from an employer if you gave them 10 years of work experience? A manager within a grocery store is a skilled position, demanding team leadership, invoicing, inventory control among other things.

$18.90 is not the norm for union grocery workers nationwide. It is only achieved after years of showing leadership and management potential.

I wrote a ton the last time, I'm not going to be dragged back into it. We vote on our contract here (in Minnesota) at the end of next month. We are going to have to give a lot to get a little, I understand that. The southern CA workers are not willing to give that little.

Quit calling us all unskilled...

--Chris

scabs >> then striking workers

if you really were that skilled the stores wouldnt be able to replace you so easily with scabs, this strike has been going on for 4 months, i gaurentee that vons/albertsons/ralphs/etc will just hire your replacements with highschool kids looking for part time jobs.

get off your high horse. most of the striking workers are bag boys and cashiers or stockers.

 

[Ornery]

Grocery workers OK contract

• Many employees who said they voted to ratify the contract said they were eager to return to their jobs. Some said the offer was not much different from one they received from their employers in October, one that was rejected.
  
  Sunny Kim, 32, a service manager at Ralphs, said she was disappointed with the final results. "Why did we go on strike? I lost a lot of money for nothing. I think the guys were misled," Kim said. Still, she said she felt "wonderful" about the opportunity to return to work.

Beautiful.

 

[jjyiz28]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Grocery workers OK contract

• Many employees who said they voted to ratify the contract said they were eager to return to their jobs. Some said the offer was not much different from one they received from their employers in October, one that was rejected.
  
  Sunny Kim, 32, a service manager at Ralphs, said she was disappointed with the final results. "Why did we go on strike? I lost a lot of money for nothing. I think the guys were misled," Kim said. Still, she said she felt "wonderful" about the opportunity to return to work.

Beautiful.

they gave in, simple as that.

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: coldcut
How is it no skill?

Umm, last I checked you don't need any form of an academic credential to get a job there. Care to explain how working at a grocery store is a skilled labor? Working the cash register, bagging groceries, restocking store inventory, directing customers to appropriate aisles, and calling for price check is NOT a skilled labor. :disgust:

 

[Hammer]

hahaha. GOOD!