Grocery Dispute Update

Albertson's workers authorized a strike if no contract resolution is reached by April 9. This is designed to put pressure on management to get them back to the bargaining table. There's more at the UFCW's Respect Workers site.

I won't be going to a Safeway, Albertson's, Vons or Ralph's until they set this straight. The big chains are raking in record profits and while nobody wants to deny their ability to do so, the least they can do is respect their employees by allowing them to make a decent living with this one job. They can easily afford it.

The real problem with modern economic theory is that making outrageous profits is not enough to shareholders if they're the same amount of outrageous profits year-over-year. The principle of greed has overtaken all reason when it comes to this, and it's the workers who end up getting screwed. I'm not spending two seconds in a grocery store which has contempt for their staff.