I heard on the radio this morning that the supermarkets might strike.
This is bad news. My father is a checker at Vons. The last strike was awful. I honestly feel the only reason we pulled through was because we still had the inheritance from my grandmother's death. I don't know how they will do it this time around.
It burns my bridges that the big wigs of the corporations can mess with people's lives like this. My father doesn't exactly enjoy working at Vons, but he took the job back in 1981 to support the new family he had started. As he puts it, "I took the job because it provided me the opportunity to care for my family. When I was hired I was promised certain things and now they want to take them away."
I don't want to hear people say things like, "But I don't have health insurance, so why should they?" Well, dumbass, you could get health insurance. You could work at Vons and get it the way my father and many others do or you could do like I do and pay for it (granted it's not cheap). My point is that there are options.
If it does turn into a strike, I will not cross the picket lines. The Union kept me healthy as a kid (lord knows I needed all the medical help I could get), provided my father with decent enough wages to put food on the table and gave me a scholarship for college. While I don't like how the Union workers (the people who run the benefit programs and such) push the actual store workers to save their jobs, I feel it's more important to save the benefits and not allow the big wigs to slash wages.
According to my father, the workers from his generation made a significant amount more than the workers who are starting now. This just isn't OK, to quote Mr. Fuego.
I could be more eloquent but damnit I have to go to work. And yes, I need a vacation.
This is bad news. My father is a checker at Vons. The last strike was awful. I honestly feel the only reason we pulled through was because we still had the inheritance from my grandmother's death. I don't know how they will do it this time around.
It burns my bridges that the big wigs of the corporations can mess with people's lives like this. My father doesn't exactly enjoy working at Vons, but he took the job back in 1981 to support the new family he had started. As he puts it, "I took the job because it provided me the opportunity to care for my family. When I was hired I was promised certain things and now they want to take them away."
I don't want to hear people say things like, "But I don't have health insurance, so why should they?" Well, dumbass, you could get health insurance. You could work at Vons and get it the way my father and many others do or you could do like I do and pay for it (granted it's not cheap). My point is that there are options.
If it does turn into a strike, I will not cross the picket lines. The Union kept me healthy as a kid (lord knows I needed all the medical help I could get), provided my father with decent enough wages to put food on the table and gave me a scholarship for college. While I don't like how the Union workers (the people who run the benefit programs and such) push the actual store workers to save their jobs, I feel it's more important to save the benefits and not allow the big wigs to slash wages.
According to my father, the workers from his generation made a significant amount more than the workers who are starting now. This just isn't OK, to quote Mr. Fuego.
I could be more eloquent but damnit I have to go to work. And yes, I need a vacation.
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I hope the strike doesn't affect dog food.