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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Busting A Bad Union? |
| 2009-11-09 |
| Two major Arizona grocery store chains could soon be facing a worker shortage. Some 20,000 people at Fry's and Safeway could go on strike as early as next Friday. AZ is a right to work State, and the union doesn't let its membership vote, but keeps demanding more and more from Kroger. For its part, Kroger is already advertising for scabs. Several workers I talked to were horribly frustrated at their union. There is a good chance this could snowball into other industries. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 "Bad union" is redundant. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-11-09 15:56 |
| #2 My wife's aunt worked for Krogers in Cincinnati back in the day. Every time the UFCW went on strike, Kroger hired a bunch of strikebreakers. There was no picket line violence--because the strikebreakers were the spouses, children, kid brothers, and first cousins of the UFCW folks on the picket line. All an elaborate joke, it was. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-11-09 15:28 |
| #1 This is the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (AFL-CIO). The Feds will probably step in to 'help', so the union leadership has little to fear. Plus, the NLRB is now making decisions with only two board members (both current administration appointees) out of the required five. Guess which way they'll go? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-11-09 14:10 |