Vons picketer arrested in La Mesa (hits 13 year-old girl with sign)

The San Diego Union Tribune ^ | December 5, 2003

[It's me]

I think Ambrose meant they make $250/week during the strike.

[international american]

That makes sense.

[hotpotato]

Too bad this is not going on in Texas. At least then the store mangers could terminate the striking employees and hire permanent replacements.

And if Gephardt is elected president, he will work to see that Texas and all other right-to-work states lose those rights.

"Rep. Dick Gephardt said that he would defend the right to organize as president by supporting repeal of right to work provisions in the Taft-Hartley Act."

[hotpotato]

I have also heard, and don't quote me if its incorrect, that they will lose their medical coverage they have at the end of the year.

I found this:

"It hurts to be off this work this long, especially during the holidays," Hugh Sam said. "In January, benefits will begin expiring. After three months, employees will have a tough time ever making up for the (wages) they've lost."

[RightOnline]

Pardon me if I don't ever shed a tear for union jobs heading overseas. These miserable a**holes are getting what they well deserve......and have been begging for over the last several decades.

[hotpotato]

AAlso...the smart ones know that once the strike is over they'll be seeing the same customers in the store as they see crossing the lines now.

That's why the picketers you see outside your store are coming from another store and another neighborhood. They are not the employees of that particular store where they are picketing.

[hotpotato]

Will be interesting when stores can substitute clerks for scanners that will scan your entire purchase as you pass through and charge your account. I've used the new ones on the market (K-Mart and Home Depot) where you scan your own merchandise and pay without a clerk. I love it!

Of course, I'm sure Gephardt and cronies will manage to pass laws outlawing automatic scanning sans clerks.

[South40]

That's why the picketers you see outside your store are coming from another store and another neighborhood. They are not the employees of that particular store where they are picketing.

That's not true in the case of the Ralph's by my house. I spent 15 minutes talking to picketers...employees I know from shopping there...including April...a woman I know from the neighborhood. Since they've stopped picketing at Ralph's these people I know have moved to Albertson's...so I now shop there.

[hotpotato]

Since they've stopped picketing at Ralph's these people I know have moved to Albertson's...so I now shop there.

Good for you :-)

I have not recognized any of the picketers at the Albertson and Ralph's stores I shop at. I was told they were not employees of those stores. I'm not sure why there is the difference unless location and abundance of picketed stores is a factor. It made sense to me to have unfamiliar faces on the picket line at your neighborhood store rather than use the same employees that the customers will have to face once the strike is over (not to mention what this hostility does to employee/employer relations once the strike is over). But then, no one ever accused the unions of having good business sense....

[South40]

Actually...I think it makes sense to have familiar faces picketing. I know April. She's a single mother of two teenaged boys and a very nice lady. Perhaps the idea is to have people we know holding the signs so as to invoke sympathy. The whole process is undone though once the hostilities begin.

In a discussion I had with her she said she's against the strike and would rather be working. Unfortunately, she can't and for obvious reasons. When I told her I don't support the strike and why (I'm against all unions) she said she understood and I believe her. Some people are truly stuck in the middle.