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Forgive me All for not adding the original link.. I'm aware of the policy Kitten . thanks for the reminder, chalk it up to only one cup of coffee.
Here is the link.
Showdown looming for union, two grocers | The Sierra Vista Herald
That's what we're here for.Forgive me All for not adding the original link.. I'm aware of the policy Kitten . thanks for the reminder, chalk it up to only one cup of coffee.
Here is the link.
Showdown looming for union, two grocers | The Sierra Vista Herald
'Tis cool.
.... Take for instance Toyota, why do you think Toyota is closing down it's only Union facility and moving it to a non-union right to work state. With health benefits added and pension costs it costs more to produce the product therefor making it less competetive. The same can be said for every industry, including steele. While Steele was being dumped on the market here. Union management was stuck in the mode of being inflexible when it came to salary and benefits and often times these companies simply folded. While not blaming the workers themselves for this and Unions completely they are a large contributing factor and there is a large amount of data to support this.
At a time when the average American company requires workers to pay more than $2,000 a year toward family health insurance premiums, the auto industry is among the 4% of employers that offer free family health coverage. Retirees, who outnumber workers by more than 2-to-1 at General Motors and represent significant percentages at the other major U.S. automakers, get the same deal.
Forgive me All for not adding the original link.. I'm aware of the policy Kitten . thanks for the reminder, chalk it up to only one cup of coffee.
Here is the link.
Showdown looming for union, two grocers | The Sierra Vista Herald
'Tis cool.
I thought you were here to big up Ubuntu.
Philadelphia Transit workers just settled their strike. I say bravo, if the top has all the money there is hardly any possibility that we will have a just and equitable society. Need to unionize more companies, bravo again.
And the piece below is old and now even more skewed for the rich.
Boston Review | Edward Wolff: Time for a Wealth Tax?
"In 1995, Forbes magazine counted a record 129 American billionaires. Though the super-salaries of athletes and entertainers more frequently grab the headlines, their $5-10 million deals are dwarfed by the accumulated wealth of the richest Americans: Microsoft's Bill Gates -- $12.9 billion; investor Warren Buffet -- $10.7 billion; the duPont family -- $10 billion; the Rockefeller family -- $6 billion; Micromedia's John Kluge -- $5.9 billion; and Microsoft's Paul Allen and Intel's Gordon Moore -- $5.3 billion each.1 An average American family, in contrast, is worth $52,200.2 So it would take a city of almost a quarter of a million such families to match the net worth of Bill Gates."
"The conclusion is that, if anything, tax increases on higher-income families are the least damaging mechanism for closing state fiscal deficits in the short run. Reductions in government spending on goods and services, or reductions in transfer payments to lower-income families, are likely to be more damaging to the economy in the short run than tax increases focused on higher-income families. In any case, in terms of how counter-productive they are, there is no automatic preference for spending reductions rather than tax increases."
Spending Cuts Vs. Tax Increases at the State Level, 10/30/01
.... Take for instance Toyota, why do you think Toyota is closing down it's only Union facility and moving it to a non-union right to work state. With health benefits added and pension costs it costs more to produce the product therefor making it less competetive. The same can be said for every industry, including steele. While Steele was being dumped on the market here. Union management was stuck in the mode of being inflexible when it came to salary and benefits and often times these companies simply folded. While not blaming the workers themselves for this and Unions completely they are a large contributing factor and there is a large amount of data to support this.
At a time when the average American company requires workers to pay more than $2,000 a year toward family health insurance premiums, the auto industry is among the 4% of employers that offer free family health coverage. Retirees, who outnumber workers by more than 2-to-1 at General Motors and represent significant percentages at the other major U.S. automakers, get the same deal.
And I hope that all Americans are willing to pay a bit more for an automobile that supports their own nation and its people. But sadly I see the likes of Wal-mart profits increasing and realize too quickly that supporting your nation is words it is rarely deeds. Cheap is what sells Sam W realized that too well.
Buy American - support all Americans, including yourself.
Buy American - Support Yourself Political Pass
Thumbs up Day Political Pass
update
PHOENIX A possible strike by workers at Safeway and Fry's in Arizona has been averted.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99, Safeway Stores and Kroger Company, the owner of Fry's and Smith's, reached a tentative settlement on a new collective bargaining agreement late Thursday evening, according to a news release.
The union will submit the tentative agreement to its Safeway, Fry's and Smiths members with the union's recommendation that it be approved. The union and the companies have agreed to extend the existing contract pending the outcome of the membership vote
The Associated Press: Arizona grocery strike averted
update
PHOENIX A possible strike by workers at Safeway and Fry's in Arizona has been averted.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99, Safeway Stores and Kroger Company, the owner of Fry's and Smith's, reached a tentative settlement on a new collective bargaining agreement late Thursday evening, according to a news release.
The union will submit the tentative agreement to its Safeway, Fry's and Smiths members with the union's recommendation that it be approved. The union and the companies have agreed to extend the existing contract pending the outcome of the membership vote
The Associated Press: Arizona grocery strike averted
update
PHOENIX A possible strike by workers at Safeway and Fry's in Arizona has been averted.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99, Safeway Stores and Kroger Company, the owner of Fry's and Smith's, reached a tentative settlement on a new collective bargaining agreement late Thursday evening, according to a news release.
The union will submit the tentative agreement to its Safeway, Fry's and Smiths members with the union's recommendation that it be approved. The union and the companies have agreed to extend the existing contract pending the outcome of the membership vote
The Associated Press: Arizona grocery strike averted
Brinkmanship.
update
PHOENIX A possible strike by workers at Safeway and Fry's in Arizona has been averted.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99, Safeway Stores and Kroger Company, the owner of Fry's and Smith's, reached a tentative settlement on a new collective bargaining agreement late Thursday evening, according to a news release.
The union will submit the tentative agreement to its Safeway, Fry's and Smiths members with the union's recommendation that it be approved. The union and the companies have agreed to extend the existing contract pending the outcome of the membership vote
The Associated Press: Arizona grocery strike averted
Brinkmanship.
Perhaps bob, though on the news here all the workers were faced with being replaced without so much as a glitch. According to news, it looks a lot like the original offer is the one that is going to be accepted anyway. I thought it interesting when listening to the number of people that were ready to disavow their membership in the Union in order to keep their jobs. Arizona has interesting right to work laws that prevent companies from being held hostage by Unions. In the end all the threats of striking did was accomplish nothing but the political goals for the UCFW management and did nothing to help those they represent. As I mentioned before, a novel idea would be to take the Union dues they collect and pay the 15 dollars a week for their members and then they would have what they asked for.
Union spokeswoman Ellen Anreder said no details of the tentative agreement would be released until the union and members have a chance to review it.
Brinkmanship.
Perhaps bob, though on the news here all the workers were faced with being replaced without so much as a glitch. According to news, it looks a lot like the original offer is the one that is going to be accepted anyway. I thought it interesting when listening to the number of people that were ready to disavow their membership in the Union in order to keep their jobs. Arizona has interesting right to work laws that prevent companies from being held hostage by Unions. In the end all the threats of striking did was accomplish nothing but the political goals for the UCFW management and did nothing to help those they represent. As I mentioned before, a novel idea would be to take the Union dues they collect and pay the 15 dollars a week for their members and then they would have what they asked for.
I wonder, how your news knows the details of the agreement when the article itself said:
Union spokeswoman Ellen Anreder said no details of the tentative agreement would be released until the union and members have a chance to review it.
$15 a week for medical Insurance, and they are bitching about it? These people are in for a rude awakening if they should ever end up on Medicare. That's about $!00 a month per person and I expect that to at least double with the Democrats in office.
$15 a week for medical Insurance, and they are bitching about it? These people are in for a rude awakening if they should ever end up on Medicare. That's about $!00 a month per person and I expect that to at least double with the Democrats in office.
Dear President Obama:
I want to commend you for bringing America to the table in the effort to
reform our health care system. Health care is a shared responsibility, and we cannot
move forward until all elements of our society fully embrace that principle.
http://www.ufcw.org/docUploads/obamaltr.pdf?CFID=3805712&CFTOKEN=27196096
As I said earlier Ollie this had little to do with the welfare of it's membership and more to do with advancing the agenda of the Union leadership. If the Union management had the welfare of it's members in mind then they would have taken the 25.00 a week they collect for their members and taken 15.00 out of that to pay the difference rather than pay the overbloated salaries of Union management. I agree that you would be hard pressed to find many Americans who would think that 15.00 dollars a week is a bad offer.
$15 a week for medical Insurance, and they are bitching about it? These people are in for a rude awakening if they should ever end up on Medicare. That's about $!00 a month per person and I expect that to at least double with the Democrats in office.
Dear President Obama:
I want to commend you for bringing America to the table in the effort to
reform our health care system. Health care is a shared responsibility, and we cannot
move forward until all elements of our society fully embrace that principle.
http://www.ufcw.org/docUploads/obamaltr.pdf?CFID=3805712&CFTOKEN=27196096
As I said earlier Ollie this had little to do with the welfare of it's membership and more to do with advancing the agenda of the Union leadership. If the Union management had the welfare of it's members in mind then they would have taken the 25.00 a week they collect for their members and taken 15.00 out of that to pay the difference rather than pay the overbloated salaries of Union management. I agree that you would be hard pressed to find many Americans who would think that 15.00 dollars a week is a bad offer.
But doesn't taking that kind of attitude with management of the union... and applying it to the corporation.... mean that CEO'S should cut their own multi million dollar a year salaries to pay for the company's other expenses and pay raises for the workers?
SIERRA VISTA Thousands of workers in the state are set to strike tonight if a deal is not reached between union leaders and two grocery chains.
If an agreement between Safeway Inc., Frys owner Kroger Co. and the United Food Commercial Workers Union Local 99 is not reached by 6 p.m., about 25,000 union members in the state could walk out.
Frys and Safeway, which together employ more than 400 people in Cochise County, have hired thousands of temporary workers in preparation for a strike.
Striking union members would receive $100 a week, said Jim McLaughlin, president of the union.
In September, union members rejected the most recent offer from the employers and voted to authorize its leadership to call a strike if their demands, which include health care coverage without premiums, are not met.
The offer by the two companies would see employees pay up to $15 a week for coverage.
The employers want to shift more health care costs onto the workers by forcing them to pay new premium fees in addition to the co-pays, deductibles and other costs they already pay, union spokes woman Ellen Anreder said in a statement earlier this week.
Showdown looming for union, two grocers | The Sierra Vista Herald
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