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Elizabeth Warren tells Stop & Shop shoppers, ’Do not cross the picket line’
MassLive.com ^

Posted on 04/12/2019 12:01:53 PM PDT by matt04

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat running for president in 2020, delivered donuts and coffee to picketing Stop & Shop workers in Somerville on Friday, and urged shoppers to take their business elsewhere.

“Do not cross the picket line,” Warren said. “Understand people on the picket line are not just fighting for their families. They’re fighting for all our families. They’re fighting for basic fairness and equality in this country.”

On Thursday, the unions representing 31,000 Stop & Shop workers across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut voted to go on strike. Their contract expired in February, and they have been unable to reach a deal on a new one.

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Speaking to reporters, Warren reiterated the message that she has been campaigning on for years, that the wealthy are taking advantage of the working class. “This is the problem all across this country is that those at the top think that they can just keep sucking out every bit of profit and leave nothing for the working people, the people who actually get out there and make it happen every day,” Warren said.

“What people are asking for here is they’re just asking for fair wages, they’re asking for health care benefits and just as shot at a decent retirement,” she said.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Massachusetts; US: Rhode Island
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To: reaganaut1

With any luck they can make ‘Stop-N-Shop’ go the way of A&P
, and the union slugs that worked there can be homeless.


41 posted on 04/12/2019 1:02:25 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

harf!!


42 posted on 04/12/2019 1:08:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: KosmicKitty

I was in a Big Y yesterday. The people there said the union goons at S&S basically kicked all the customers out at 4 pm. Didn’t matter that they were buying food for their kids.


43 posted on 04/12/2019 1:14:12 PM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: matt04

When I lived in Massghaistan, Stop&Shop opened a delivery service called Pea Pod. People referred to that service quite correctly as Stop&Pea on the corner.


44 posted on 04/12/2019 1:15:05 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: lucky american

When I was a kid I knew a number of older ladies who had been homemakers during Pittsburgh’s big union days in the 40’s and 50’s. To a one they all seemed to agree that whenever their husbands were called out on strike the family never did make up the economic ground they had lost during that period of being without a paycheck.


45 posted on 04/12/2019 1:16:35 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: liberalh8ter

Stop and Shop operates in a highly competitive New England market with very low margins.

Consumers would be hurt if they had to close stores or went out of business.

If they raise prices consumers won’t stop and shop.


46 posted on 04/12/2019 1:17:05 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: matt04

LOL. Last Place Lizzie is trying really really hard to catch fire. Next thing you know, she’ll be taking a swing at anyone who crosses the picket line and calling them “filthy scabs.”


47 posted on 04/12/2019 1:20:15 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: KosmicKitty
Hope the workers know where to go of [sic for] a hand out when they drive [t]he company they’re working for out of business.

Eastern Airlines!

48 posted on 04/12/2019 1:22:22 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Beagle8U
With any luck they can make ‘Stop-N-Shop’ go the way of A&P , and the union slugs that worked there can be homeless.

I shop at Stop-N-Shop a lot, and I have had no problem with the employees. I don't wish them ill. That said, in a very competitive business such as groceries, I doubt that many of their demands will be satisfied.

49 posted on 04/12/2019 1:23:02 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: matt04

if a person wants ‘fair’ wages and health benefits, they should put on their interview shoes and go get it. Bump themselves up from an entry-level job, which mini-marts are, instead of staying at an entry-level job and demanding the moon. Or, they could spend their work-time upselling to the customers, so the store is more profitable allowing the owner to provide more perks, instead of acting like customers are interrupting their day.


50 posted on 04/12/2019 1:25:00 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: matt04

I’d cross that picket line, repeatedly, just to spite the old hag.

Maybe they can replace them with illegals. Democrats LOVE illegals.


51 posted on 04/12/2019 1:25:51 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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To: plain talk
Stop and shop employees. Those are low end jobs and not worthy of much pay.

Seems that point is lost on most progressives. Yet, S&S gives employees medical benefits and pensions. What the frick else do they want for stocking shelves, pushing cash register buttons and making change, and presumably serving food? A monkey could do those jobs. [no offense to monkeys]

52 posted on 04/12/2019 1:27:14 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: matt04

She might get a better response if she relieved her refrigerator of all that beer.


53 posted on 04/12/2019 1:28:45 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: rktman

I’m going tomorrow!


54 posted on 04/12/2019 1:41:16 PM PDT by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: Beagle8U
What is ‘stop n shop’? A party store? A dollar store?

It's a large supermarket chain.I'm not sure exactly how big but I think they pretty much cover the Northeast.

55 posted on 04/12/2019 1:47:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: reaganaut1

A&P used to be by far the largest grocery store in the world, until unions drove them out of business.

Many, many, moons ago I walked a picket line with Cesar Chavez in front of the last A&P in town. They were out of business and closed within a year. All the jobs were gone.

All unions should be outlawed and their leaders imprisoned!


56 posted on 04/12/2019 1:48:06 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Beagle8U

Yep, loved A & P. Grandparents used to take me. Fond memories.


57 posted on 04/12/2019 1:50:15 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Beagle8U
Wikipedia says 415 stores in New England,New York and New jersey.
58 posted on 04/12/2019 1:51:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Jmouse007

MB is non-union as I recall. IMHO, she is pandering to the Unions who most likely have donated to her campaigns. Make the members feel like she cares about them than collect a campaign check from their dues, while they are out not getting paid.


59 posted on 04/12/2019 1:52:56 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Pickett lines are for disrupting the business and should be crossed.

To hell with union picketers. Fire every last one of them.

They live in an anachronism, a non right to work state.


60 posted on 04/12/2019 1:53:46 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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