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Jesus, that’s a lot of bread. The ducks at Greenlake will eat well tonight.
But seriously… 500 times? Holy shit. I was way off. My guess was about 86 or so. Fuckin’ A.
Albertsons Clerk: “Would you like to use the automated self check out.”
Me: “And let a computer do a union job? No thanks.”
Albertsons Clerk: “God bless. I can help you over at number 4.“
Hey @ #2, you’ve got it right!!!
I’ve never said anything to anyone but that’s exactly the way I work it too. I want a LIVE checker (so they can’t eliminate more worker persons). Same reason I typically won’t use an ATM (we call them “Ugly Tellers” where I come from). If I need money, I will write my check over the amount at the grocery store or go to the bank if I need larger amounts.
Will, I wasn’t surprised at the differential of the loaves of bread frankly. CEO earnings are an obscenity while the companies squeal like a stuck pig that they can’t afford decent medical insurance for workers. If we consumers don’t buy into the whole scam, it helps a little at a time.
I’m as liberal as they come but frankly, I don’t care about the grocery union. The electrician union? You bet. I don’t want to be electrocuted when I turn on the lights. The Air Traffic Controller Union – yes we’d be safer with them in charge. But grocery baggers? Frankly, this is NOT a job where anyone’s safety is at stake or where there is any skillset the union projects. These people are free to go work somewhere else. And the disparity between CEO and worker pay is out of whack in every single sector. That’s the way it is folks. If you’re going to have sympathy for the grocery worker because their CEO makes more money, add just about every possible occupation to that list.
Do I wish the grocery workers could be paid more? Sure. But this is just a bit overly dramatic here. I’ve never understood the need for a grocery union. By the way, in San Francisco there’s a grocery that has been picketed for 10 years by the local and the grocery store continues to grow and shoppers continue to shop because everyone knows you don’t need to be a genius to bag groceries. Hell even FLAKEY KLAKEY or PUFFYBUTT could bag groceries, and both of them are inbred morons.
And hell just froze over….. I agree with RES.
Hey we need more unions. Unions make the world a safer place. Haaa haaa haaa haaa haaa
Personally I will visit a check out person to handle more than the express line cart amount of food. Also I like to talk to the people and ask how are they doing. They like it when someone treats them as a human being, SOMETHING LOST ON STUPIDMAN@4. His life motto: “Once an ASSHOLE always an ASSHOLE”!
Stupidman: Maybe I can bag groceries (been there done that when younger) but we’re still trying to determine what you are good for. Why not join Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs? Maybe their first job would start on your paramecium sized brain!
I saw the Enviromental groups endorse Sound Transit, RTID package thread reduced by removing the ASSININE ASSWIPER commentary. Can you imagine if every thread is treated this way? Wow, this blog would actually become a worthwhile read!
Why does anyone need a grocery union? Ever heard of Wal-Mart? Even if you’re not concerned about the workers who handle your food, think about your tax dollars going to pay for the health care of those workers instead of going to your other favorite programs.
Then I’m kinda guessing you’ve never been a non-union grocery worker.
Unions aren’t formed because of societal needs. They are associations of workers to collectively bargain more effectively than individuals could. It has nothing to do with YOUR needs.
So KingBud, proving that genetic engineering is a bad thing, just outed himself as Puffybutt. You now know why the GOP is getting its ass kicked. They are depending on the likes of Puffybutt (who claims to have been banned here.)
Ok Daddy Love if it has nothing to do with MY needs, why should I give a fuck? I have nothing against unions. But I have never needed one. I can look out for myself. I say if they don’t like working for the grocery store, they can move on. The public sees some value in unions when unions make the argument that non-union workers are unsafe. The rest of the time, most people don’t care.
Kds there is no way to compare a multinational company like Wal-Mart with a local grocery store. It’s a straw dog argument.
Oh and Puffybutt – to answer your question – what am I good for? I am good for fucking your ugly Muslim wife in the ass while she sucks my best friend’s dick. Just ask her.
klake: Did you know that after WWII, the U.S. prosecuted and jailed enemy soldiers who had interogated our soldiers using the technique called ‘waterboarding’?
It’s against the Geneva conventions.
RES:
UNIONS ARE TOTALLY IMPORTANT. MY WIFE WORKED AT LOCAL MED CLINIC CHAIN – NON-UNION: COULD NEVER TAKE A BREAK, ALWAYS HAD HER LUNCH INTERRUPTED. HAD TO WORK LONG DAYS BUT THEY WOULD SPLIT A GUT EVERY TIME SHE EARNED OVERTIME. ALWAYS UNDERSTAFFED AND THE CLING-ONS THERE WERE SNITCHES TO MANAGEMENT. THEY WERE SO CHEAP THEY HIRED UNDER-QUALIFIED PEOPLE IN IMPORTANT POSITIONS WHO COULD BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH.
NOW SHE WORKS AT A LOCAL PUBLIC HOSPITAL. UNION. SHE GETS HER BREAKS, HER LUNCH, THE PEOPLE ARE GLAD TO SEE HER. THE SHIP IS RUN TIGHT AS A DRUM.
BELIEVE ME. THE GROCERY CHAINS WOULD ABUSE THEIR WORKERS JUST AS BAD AS A WAL-MART OR THE OUTFIT I DESCRIBED ABOVE IF IT WASN’T FOR A UNION.
ANOTHER THING. MY MOM WORKED HER WHOLE CAREER IN GROCERY. SHE EVENTUALLY BECAME A STORE MANGER. SHE NEVER APPRECIATED THE UNION NOT EVEN WHEN THE GROCER BECAME A TAKEOVER TARGET AND SHE WAS EJECTED ON THE STREET BUT THAT UNION WHICH GAVE HER A LIVABLE WAGE AND MEDICAL BENEFITS, SURE CAME IN HANDY FOR HEALTH CARE FOR HER KIDS (ME INCLUDED) AND A PENSION AND MEDICAL INSURANCE SHE AND HER HUSBAND (ALSO IN GROCERY) DRAWS ON TODAY.
IF IT COMES TO STRIKE, PLEASE DON’T CROSS THE PICKET LINES. GROCERY JOBS ARE A LADDER TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. THEY NEED TO BE PRESERVED ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
RES @ 10: “…why should I give a fuck?”
Because a more fair, just, and equitable distribution of economic rewards improves our society as a whole, but I shouldn’t really have to be telling you this.
“Giving a fuck” is what the left is all about. Sheesh.
WINGNUTS:
YOU’RE IN A SELECT GROUP: THE 25 PERCENTERS
ONLY 18 PERCENT OF INDEPENDENTS WORSHIP THE CHIMP.
WHAT’S REALLY SHOCKING IS THAT 68% OF REPUBLICANS LOVE THIS MONKEY. THAT TELLS ME THIS PARTY IS PRACTICALLY UNREDEEMABLE.
THE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM R’S AS FAST AS THEY CAN. NOW WE GOT TO WORK ON THE D’S SO THEY HAVE THEIR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.
RightEqualsStupid said – “I am good for fucking your ugly Muslim wife in the ass while she sucks my best friend’s dick.”
You must be a right wing troll, no self respecting liberal/democrat/progressive talk like this. Get off this blog and go back to faux news where you belong.
RES 10
Let’s see, you can walk into a room with the owner of your workplace and ask him for a better deal. If he doesn’t give you one, your options are (a) like it, or (b) leave. You mentioned something similar for grocery workers.
Or, you can go into that room with every other worker at the place and negotiate a better deal with him knowing that you will all walk out and temporarily shut down his business if he doesn’t come across. The assumption is good-faith bargaining on both sides. Workers don’t want to shut down their source of income, for example.
It’s a logic problem. Which is the MOST likely to get YOU the better deal?
Go read the Autobiography of Mother Jones. That will give you an idea of why unions are a Good Thing, and often a Necessary Thing. The entire book is available online. Took me about three hours to read, and I don’t read as fast as I used to.
I wish I could say I thought unions were useful. But then my wife’s union abandoned her when she became severely ill, and her bosses (BTW, she was an employee with WSDOT) refused to accomodate the wheelchair she now needs to get around due to her illness. Yes, that’s a blatant violation of ADA, and that’s why we’re getting lawyered up. She was forced to retire early, lost 60% of her retirement savings automatically, and to add insult to injury, her long-term disability was approved…..for $20. AFSCME did nothing.
Yeah, unions were helpful once. I’m not so sure any more.
Unions never did anything for me….
that was obvious.
But the 40 hour work week, the breaks, the safety that is the reason I still have fingers to type this, all came to me as a result of the union struggle and I know it.
Grocery workers cannot just switch stores and keep seniority or wage parity. I grew up in NC where the union busting and worker abuse Food lion was exposed for unsafe food handling and firing employees weeks before they were to vest in profit sharing.
Grocery stores need unions. We all need unions, even if we don’t get the chance to join one.
21 BJ
Sounds like your wife got screwed by the management. Does that mean her union was bad, or not strong enough? Did she get what her union contract guaranteed? Violations of ADA are a federal matter; did you call the feds?
KIS 22
Thanks for the reminder to us all about the men and women who were not only walked picket lines but were beaten and killed for doing so to get us the workplace protections we have now.
So what happened to the bread after filming the demonstration?
Right Equals Stupid @ 11
Kroger (locally QFC & Fred Meyer), Safeway, & Albertson’s are all national corporations. Straw dog? As if.
The bread was given to local food banks.
Anyone remember the Grocery Store strike sometime in the mid-1980’s? I remember living in W. Seattle at the time. Larry’s Market (dang I miss that store now that I’m in N. Seattle, because they treated their workers fair and that strike convinced me of that!). Larrys abstained from the deal, saying they would ‘go with’ whatever was agreed upon in the end. They didn’t want their workers having to strike & losing wages. In W. Seattle we didn’t have a Larrys nearby but the papers said that shoppers were flocking to Larrys stores in other parts of the city.
The Grocery Store Workers picketed all the other stores EXCEPT Safeway. After a couple of weeks, stopping by the Safeway on my way home from work, I asked the suddenly appearing people waltzing slowly with their signs at all entrances – WHY they were suddenly picketing the nearby Safeway? Seems that there were all the screams from other stores that (non-picketed) Safeway was getting all the bucks from their losses. I asked because I personally won’t cross a picket line. But when I learned they were ‘Safeway-PAID’ picketers, I went in to buy a BUNCH of groceries.
Seems that Safeway had to hire their OWN picketers to make it appear that they were suffering too. Gosh, it was funny. But what a slick move by the Union. Not long after, the negotiations started earnestly, making real progress and the strike was settled.
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To be honest, my Dad was a Bashas’ Store Clerk retiree from Phoenix. Decades later in his nursing home, he still gets a pension (which Medicaid takes) and $25 Christmas meat certificate from Bashas’ (which we eat), even though they are a Right-to-Work State in Arizona. Bashas’ always did right by my Dad and kept food on our table while I was growing up.
UNHOLY GREED
Good ad, but the real issue unions have is general support from shoppers – this one will not cross a picket line, ever.
That good old Seattle mantra should scare the chains who rely on VOLUME for profits … volume every day.
For some reason Safeway is a target – but the chains are all linked to a master agreement with the retail clerks.
23:
Daddy, this was AFSCME here, not exactly the Piddlehinton Stonemason’s Guild. Why they did nothing to help is unfathomable. The wife wanted to wait until the LTD decision came down before lawyering up. Despite being diagnosed with six different autoimmune disorders (including a rheumatoid condition that the best and brightest minds at UWMC still have no diagnosis for), and doctors in two states recognizing her disability, the LTD ruling determined not only that she was ‘disabled’ for ONE WEEK, but also determined that most of her illness exists only in her mind, and that she was ‘abusing’ the pain medications prescribed to her. Yeah, taking one-half of a Vicodin twice a day at most, making a 30-day supply last 3 to 4 months out of abject fear of addiction. Yeah, that’s abuse, alright.
We have attorneys in our family, but since they’re only licensed here in Nevada, they can only help us find local attorneys that are qualified to work in Washington as well. If anyone back home knows a good ambulance-chaser who’d work on contingency, let me know. I’ll listen to just about anyone, even the trolls. This ain’t about politics, y’know. Even the most hardened troll would probably get a kick out of helping to nail the State, or at least nail the rotten little SOB of a boss who did most of the work to run her out.
NEW Domestic partnership law is an unequal law and should be considered SPECIAL RIGHTs. Here’s why, It says. If you’re gay you only need each be 18..BUT If your hetrosexual, One of you must be 62…HUH?
What gives. C’mon..we just want equality.
Didn’t Larry’s go bankrupt? I thought I heard a rumor that they could no longer be competitive.
Wow…4 years in college and you make 40k a year..now what..only 4 years behind a register with zero additional education expense/debt, you’re making 40k a year also..
Do we not see a problem with that?