Safeway And Giant Going On Strike

[clevalley (Premo)]

Originally Posted by BuddyLee

Sign of the times. No one wants to work for beans and when they're given more they're still the same people.

Good help is hard to find in a grocery store these days.

Your right - most of the "old part timers" stay there for the benefits. Now it is a revolving door of people who do not care.

There is something to be said working in a non-union Grocery Store. I am not bashing Unions - they do serve their purpose in the right industry and at the right time...

I was offered the management program with Safeway and turned it down... even then my benefits were "decent". I was almost $15/hour part-time and double time was Sunday - this was mid/late 80's... I worked 3 weeks of 40 hours and my 4th week was 39 1/2 - if you worked 4 weeks of 40 they HAD to make you full-time.

Local 400 (Union) has really laid down over the years and I am surprised they still "negotiate" these crappy contracts... the company, as well as the union and the employee's they represent, cannot afford to strike. I remember going to the Cap Center at the "11th hour" and voting in the contract in the late 80's... it was a joke because it did not effect me, just new hires! Man, they got the shaft and it only gets worse...

Gee, wonder why the grocery prices are so damn high!

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by clevalley

I was offered the management program with Safeway and turned it down... even then my benefits were "decent". I was almost $15/hour part-time and double time was Sunday - this was mid/late 80's... I worked 3 weeks of 40 hours and my 4th week was 39 1/2 - if you worked 4 weeks of 40 they HAD to make you full-time.

That's exactly where I'm at now. I'm glad to have made it in before the new contract, otherwise I'd be making nil.