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May. 27th, 2005 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfRevenue sharing among supermarkets during the California grocery strikes
I remember when this happened, because there was almost no management at all in the Fred's I worked at. Corporate had sent them all down to California to work, with insane amounts of overtime and premium pay. I also remember the FUD videos we were all supposed to watch (but I didn't, because it was my day off), saying that Wal-Mart was evil and bad and there was no way they could make us stop shopping there, but it was like killing our own jobs, right? *eyeroll*
We had a clause in our contract that wouldn't allow sympathy strikes, although I'm not sure people would have done so anyways. Strike pay is shitty, and it goes right back to the union for your dues. (Don't ask me how, why, or even if that works.) I remember hearing that there was meat and produce literally rotting in the Ralphs down south because people wouldn't cross the picket lines to shop, and that made me really happy. But the union folded anyways, and I wondered why. Now I know, and it makes me depressed.
I remember when this happened, because there was almost no management at all in the Fred's I worked at. Corporate had sent them all down to California to work, with insane amounts of overtime and premium pay. I also remember the FUD videos we were all supposed to watch (but I didn't, because it was my day off), saying that Wal-Mart was evil and bad and there was no way they could make us stop shopping there, but it was like killing our own jobs, right? *eyeroll*
We had a clause in our contract that wouldn't allow sympathy strikes, although I'm not sure people would have done so anyways. Strike pay is shitty, and it goes right back to the union for your dues. (Don't ask me how, why, or even if that works.) I remember hearing that there was meat and produce literally rotting in the Ralphs down south because people wouldn't cross the picket lines to shop, and that made me really happy. But the union folded anyways, and I wondered why. Now I know, and it makes me depressed.
