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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: b4its2late

A&P used to have the best coffee that you ground yourself in the store.


61 posted on 04/12/2019 1:54:42 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: matt04

Bribing Voters with Coffee and Donuts.

I assume she paid for the food and drink using her own Money, right?


62 posted on 04/12/2019 1:56:04 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Majority are located in in CT, RI and Eastern/western MA and the rest in parts on NJ and NYC area. This dispute is with the MA, CT and RI stores. Not sure on the exact number, but maybe 350 ish stores total.


63 posted on 04/12/2019 1:59:41 PM PDT by matt04
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To: raybbr

I’ve read similar stories too. Didn’t matter if you were just about to hit “YES” to confirm the amount of you order at the register, they told you to get out. I can guarantee they will loose customers over this, which means less sales, then less hours, then less jobs.


64 posted on 04/12/2019 2:04:18 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m not sure how many stores A&P had, I know it was over 15,000.

Shop-n-Chop should go that route. A grape boycott would help.


65 posted on 04/12/2019 2:05:20 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m not sure how many stores A&P had, I know it was over 15,000.

Shop-n-Chop should go that route. A grape boycott would help.


66 posted on 04/12/2019 2:05:20 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Go Gordon

“What the frick else do they want for stocking shelves, pushing cash register buttons and making change, and presumably serving food?”

Massive automation is on the way. It might take a while but it’s coming and over time it will eliminate many of these types of jobs. As a society we will have a BIG problem with massive unemployment of people without job skills.

In the meantime we are importing massive numbers of illegal aliens with low job skills. Train wreck ahead.


67 posted on 04/12/2019 2:07:26 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: lucky american

I’m reminded of the strike the UFCW did in CA back in 2003-2004. They were out for 4 or 5 months over supermarket jobs. When the dust settled the stores remained but numerous people lost houses, cars, etc when they defaulted on loans.


68 posted on 04/12/2019 2:07:57 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Flick Lives
If Elizabeth Warren, of Cambridge Massachusetts, were EVER seen slumming in a Stop & Shop it would be on the local 6:00 news.

Seriously.

’ I'm gunna get me a beer beverage! ‘

69 posted on 04/12/2019 2:08:38 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: matt04

Market Basket in non-union.

Some of the workers I have known or met are outright hostile to the ideas of unions. The workers really like the owner and he takes good care of them.

Excellent prices and on the weekends - forget it, it’s jammed with a billion shoppers.


70 posted on 04/12/2019 2:11:54 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: plain talk

We see it now with self-scans, check-in kiosk at airports, etc. The Unions are actively accelerating that with demands for employer funded pensions for PT cashiers, nearly 100% employer funded insurance, etc.

They should be promoting skilled blue-collar jobs such as electricians, plumbers, forklift mechanics, etc. not rewarding entry-level jobs for life.


71 posted on 04/12/2019 2:13:37 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Beagle8U

But, you done learnt somethin’ huh?! LOL!


72 posted on 04/12/2019 2:16:39 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: warsaw44

Begin non-union I would imagine they get raises/bonuses based on individual and store performance, a team of co-workers who work tougher and where the dead weight is removed. They know in a Union you all get mediocre raises, can’t fire dead weight, and are forced to pay union dues.


73 posted on 04/12/2019 2:16:49 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Beagle8U

Sort of like Hostess Twinkies and the bakers union? DOH! But, glad the company is back in business.


74 posted on 04/12/2019 2:18:03 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Go Gordon

Braniff?


75 posted on 04/12/2019 2:19:03 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Eddie01

Ooooh, fresh fish tonight!


76 posted on 04/12/2019 2:23:39 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: rktman

Yeah, I think I was about 19 then, but knew within a couple years how unions were destroying the companies they worked for.


77 posted on 04/12/2019 2:30:35 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: matt04

They’re not being exploited. Unions give big bucks to dems. That’s why Big White Squaw is there.


78 posted on 04/12/2019 2:55:45 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: rktman
I was going to bring the Hostess owners up, but got distracted.

Obama & Co told them to keep striking, and not accept any counter-offers, effectively destroying the company.

Obama said he'd provide funds allocated for "employees hurt by international competition..." if the company went under.

Can't remember the specific name of that particular program.

79 posted on 04/12/2019 3:27:16 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Flick Lives

Here in N Nevada, it is called “Whole Paycheck”.


80 posted on 04/12/2019 3:52:00 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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