[theFIRMbss]

>Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees
>>At 3 times the normal pay, I'd be one of the first to volunteer for the Christmas Day shift.

How can a union
be angry at a move that
gets employees cash?!

I know lots of folks
for whom an extra day's pay
is a great present!

[iconoclast]

At 3 times the normal pay, I'd be one of the first to volunteer for the Christmas Day shift.

Ah, one more "conservative" who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing!

[elli1]

Yeh...railroaders get triple time for showing up on Christmas Day & I haven't heard anyone squawking about that.