On 2/20/13 6:23 AM, Eisboch wrote:


"Urin Asshole" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:07:24 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
m...

..., Snotty. Finally a job for which you once had experience:


A leading supermarket chain in New England began recruiting *scabs* on
a
large scale this week as the union representing some 40,000 of its
workers girds for a potential strike later this month.Stop & Shop,
with
more than 250 grocery stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode
Island
and New Hampshire, opened 14 recruitment sites across the region with
the goal of hiring “replacement workers,” confirms company spokeswoman
Suzi Robinson. The recruits would replace members of five local units
of
the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) union in the event of a
strike or lockout on February 24, when current collective bargaining
agreements expire.

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Curious. What type of specialized training or apprenticeships are
required to be a union worker in a supermarket?



What a hell kind of question is that? What's specialized training have
to do with supporting workers rights??? You do know that's what unions
do right?

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Because we've been lectured for years here in this newsgroup about how
only union workers are truly qualified and competent for the work that
they perform. Non-union labor is substandard in the eyes of some. So, I
am curious as to the special skill sets of union supermarket employees.



The efforts of the right to treat workers as nothing more than a
disposable commodity...continue.

Among the more highly trained and skilled employees of supermarkets:
butchers, tractor-trailer drivers, environmental engineers, plumbers,
electricians, carpenters, et cetera. The training required to run a cash
register is minimal.

The primary purpose of a labor union is to improve the wages, hours,
working conditions, and benefits of its members. One benefit you derive:
most unionized supermarket employees have a sick leave policy, so that a
worker with the flu isn't sneezing all over your produce.

Some unions, especially in the skilled construction unions, provide
extensive training to apprentices and members.

Interestingly, we have large unionized and non-unionized chain
supermarkets in the DC area. They all tend to charge the same prices for
food. The non-union supermarkets tend to be marginal in their
operations. The Wal-Mart grocery operations tend to be cited a lot more
for various fresh food violations. I wonder why.

It was the striking and demonstrating members of the meatcutters union
in Chicago in the 1880s who gave us what became the eight hour day.




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