A striker called in to Dan Rhea last night. Works in the meat department, been there 25 years, makes $25/HR. He sounded like a sorry son of a bitch, more pathetic than vicious. 50k is not a lot of money in Massachusetts. I feel sorry for him, and am grateful that he does his best to support himself, unlike many others.
Realistically, Stop and Shop has about the highest labor costs among grocers in New England. They are barely surviving. The only way the union can win is by destroying the company, like mutineers who sink their own ship.
I understand why they are bitter. They are blaming the wrong people. It’s the Democratic politicians who deliberately and knowing betrayed them, importing millions of unskilled workers to compete against them, and hoping to keep both the white working class and gain the new entrants.
The white working class gave them Trump. The new entrants gave them Occassio-Cortez. The old guard Democrats like Pelosi and Schumer are relics, but in their death throes they don’t mind if they take the country with them. They are like Hitler in his final days, they blame the country for failing them.
In Philly, Acme is the local union supermarket. You can really tell the difference between these workers and their non-union counterparts, esp. in terms of friendliness. Do unions attract miserable people or do unions make people miserable?